Well folks, here's a LEGITIMATE scam for you, I recently bid on an AMD K6III+450 CPU from a company called CONNECT-COMP in California that was posted on E-Bay. (I can see most of you rolling your eyes already..)
This chip does exist, and was used largely in laptops due to it's low heat, etc.
It is also the last step for my existing super7 mother-board before I move on to bigger, badder computers.
Anyhow, the chip arrived, I installed it on my board and it was DEAD.
After various e-mails back and forth, and me shipping the chip back to them, they acknowledged that it was in fact fried, however, they said that due to the disclaimer on the auction page, they refused to refund me my money, and could NOT supply me with a working chip !
Finally, after a long nasty call to them, they agreed to give me a 50% refund, supposedly... well, guess what? that was a scam too ! they still have YET to refund me the money.
This all started at the beginning of May, and I have since sourced another AMD chip that works perfectly fine on my motherboard.
So, be warned that apparently (I have since found this out) there is an enormous amount of scamming going on with E-bay and "tech" related stuff.
It is difficult for me to persue this - I live in Canada - and e-bay themselves would just take one look at the Auction description and tell me that it was clearly spelled out that the product "could be fried by those not knowing what they are doing". HA ! excuse me, but I've been inside the guts of PC's since back in the 286 days, and could probably build a better PC than these crooks could think of !
My point of claim is that they advertised the chip as "new" and that it was guaranteed to work... it did NOT, and they simply took advantage of the situation.
My total cost was about $200 Cdn. and although it could have been ALOT worse, I have certainly learned NOT to deal with anyone on tech based products that don't live within a couple of hours drive from home. It's just not worth the grief.
This chip does exist, and was used largely in laptops due to it's low heat, etc.
It is also the last step for my existing super7 mother-board before I move on to bigger, badder computers.
Anyhow, the chip arrived, I installed it on my board and it was DEAD.
After various e-mails back and forth, and me shipping the chip back to them, they acknowledged that it was in fact fried, however, they said that due to the disclaimer on the auction page, they refused to refund me my money, and could NOT supply me with a working chip !
Finally, after a long nasty call to them, they agreed to give me a 50% refund, supposedly... well, guess what? that was a scam too ! they still have YET to refund me the money.
This all started at the beginning of May, and I have since sourced another AMD chip that works perfectly fine on my motherboard.
So, be warned that apparently (I have since found this out) there is an enormous amount of scamming going on with E-bay and "tech" related stuff.
It is difficult for me to persue this - I live in Canada - and e-bay themselves would just take one look at the Auction description and tell me that it was clearly spelled out that the product "could be fried by those not knowing what they are doing". HA ! excuse me, but I've been inside the guts of PC's since back in the 286 days, and could probably build a better PC than these crooks could think of !
My point of claim is that they advertised the chip as "new" and that it was guaranteed to work... it did NOT, and they simply took advantage of the situation.
My total cost was about $200 Cdn. and although it could have been ALOT worse, I have certainly learned NOT to deal with anyone on tech based products that don't live within a couple of hours drive from home. It's just not worth the grief.