Buyer Receives Fake Core i9-13900K With i7-13700K Guts From Amazon

It's almost like the writing on the wall was trying to tell us something! Amazon is a bloated poorly self-regulated market with a low barrier to entry that prioritizes convenience over quality, while obfuscating the truth of the seller you do business with.

Amazon turned out really weird. I feel like the idea of Amazon should be consolidating reputable retailers together, but they decided to open the floodgates to random people and now it's little better than wish.com. Maybe they should split the site up and push all the random sellers onto a different platform.

I ordered four m.2 chips for a raid and one of them was not like the others. Clearly a diff brand chip with a sticker transferred to it. Had I not bought multiple chips I might not have caught on.

Fuck amazon for anything of value. I now use it only for things like books and cat litter.

I stopped buying electronics on Amazon after getting bricks instead of a GPU for my PC and they treated me like shit when I went to return it. I filed a complaint with the state about the fraud and their unwillingness to correct it. Complaint didn’t do shit but I was pissed. Now the only stuff I buy on Amazon is random household items and stuff for the kids that’s under 100 bucks.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The pricing didn't raise any red flags since the user paid close to MSRP for the 24-core chip.

Switching the IHS on a cheap chip to sell it as a higher-tier SKU is the oldest tactic in the playbook.

There are many ways to spot a fake processor; however, the typical consumer doesn't check the product's authenticity.

In the Redditor's case, he bought the phony Core i9-13900K in April and evidently hasn't noticed that he was scammed until now.

The fraudster only receives a $180 profit from the operation, leading to a discussion among Redditors on the genuineness of the case.

The fact that you're buying a product from a big retailer, such as Amazon or Newegg, can sometimes give you a certain level of confidence.

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If you're building systems, I would assume you're the kind of person that knows how they work.

• The system tells you what CPU it has on boot.

• The BIOS tells you what CPU you have.

• MemTest86 would have told you what CPU you had when you tested it after assembling your system.

• Windows tells you what you have in Settings > About and Task Manager.

• Apps like CPU-Z have been downloaded a billion times and tell you what CPU you have.

• Geekbench would have told you what CPU you have and how it performs.

The article mentions someone paying a bunch for a specific CPU back in April, but then never bothered actually checking it until recently... What the CPU had written on it is meaningless. I couldn't even tell you what my current CPU looked like before I installed it. It could have said Pentium 2 or 486SX or Core i-13. What mattered was that it physically fit, the system booted, and my software said "yup, this is what you paid for."

This reminds me of the black market IC thing that caused so much chaos about 15 years ago.

Amazon always shit the bed, been waiting for my books for school for a week now.

No one considered that the guy maybe delidded and swapped it himself? Or a tampered return going unnoticed?