In a world of readily available facial recognition software, that gecko is toast!

Doing the deal in the middle of the footpath, seems legit.

This is why i bring a set up in my car when i buy used gpu's I just test them on the spot. You don't know how many people I have had totally change their whole mood when I tell them I want to hook it up first and see it working. I've literally had people deny me hooking it up saying they "don't have time for this" knowing damn well they were trying to sell some broken junk. It's crazy how shady some people can be.

Bought a car, but no engine inside!

As an owner of a 4090 I have the following reality check question for "I by my 4090 used" people: Why would I sell my perfectly working 4090??? There is nothing better to replace it with. Because I found out that I don't need it for Minesweeper? Because when I got home with the parts for my gaming PC, my father told me that I'm Amish? Because I found another one behind the couch while cleaning? And even if there is a legit reason for me to sell it, why should I sell it for less than 1500$? If someone is trying to sell you a cheap used "working" 4090, bring the police. Because he is either trying to scam you or he stole it from someone else.

my guy bought an overpriced, good-looking paperweight. 🤯🤯🤯🤯

Damn he looks like Greg Salazar!

Those shifty eyes are a dead giveaway. All four of them!

Wow. That was some underhanded s#it right there. No GPU, no ram? That's a sorry thing to do to someone.

Never ever buy a GPU without testing it first! Some people just want to learn things the hard way.

If you buy on marketplace, always test the card on sight. Poor customer. It hurts. Lesson learned I guess.

Awesome! We'll find him.

I love your repairing station, Can you please make a tutorial on what should we buy if we want to repair electronically, and tutorials for electronics I hit subscribe as your fan and notified for every uploads you do

Imagine buying a used 4090 w/o seeing it running beforehand

Omg didn't expect the graphics to have no core and memory 😮. What a scam...

How much was the scammer paid for the card (which he pretended was working) ? I guess far more than the 200USD offered by the shop but was the price "too good to be true" for a working card ? And what is the value of the card "as is", without core and vram (for other parts, brackets, fans, mosfets ? (a wild guess would be around 50USD) ?

This seller guy will surface, somewhere, sometime🧐🇦🇺

Chances are the 4090 was offered for like 800 bucks and the buyer was to greedy to make sure it works. Either way, glad you exposed that seller.

I saw a UKposts short warning of scams with these “empty” graphics cards, guess it wasn’t just clickbait

I never buy used pc parts from someone,including monitors that are not hooked up and running. If they refuse, I walk away.

I bought a used 3090 on marketplace a few years ago. Cyberstalked the guy beforehand to make sure it was real though.

This is why you never buy expensive GPU-s without testing-it,or recieving a proof of that working. That is not a price of an ice cream. Feels bad.

"That's what happens when you sit behind the desk, you forget things, like the weight in the hand of a card with a gpu and the one that's not"

Thank you for this video.

I really hope they catch this thief and put him in jail. It was a good idea to expose him.

Some expensive PCB and Cooler there.

...and the GPU is gone! and the RAM's are gone!

If you buy online use a service with buyer protection. If you buy in person, bring a test system to make sure the card is working.

I am confused to why the shop said "It was fried" and offered 200 for it... As that leaves only 4 scenarios... 1) They never checked it. (But also offered money for it!?)... confusing, questionable and bad practice/business. 2) They took the GPU and Memory. (Retailers have contacts to return parts in exchange for repaired or working ones. Let alone the ability to mix and match parts to sell on). 3) Felt sorry for them... and lied... and was willing to give away money... terrible for "business" and unsustainable. 4) Customer is lying and wants you to put parts in it... Extremely unlikely, especially with photo's as evidence. May of accidently provided inaccurate information. I would be checking user reviews of this shop... the dude who sold it definitely sold a dodgy card... but "how dodgy" and under what reality... It's totally possible that the customer got double scammed...

Hmm, sidewalk store ? guy looks friendly, must be legit !

For high priced items ALWAYS meet at a police station and take a pic of their ID and yours together, If they’re not down walk away from the deal.

Wow good work 💯😎

If you meet up with a stranger somewhere on the street to pay in cash for a gpu ... who thinks this is a legit deal? People just love to get scammed these days.

That's a real shame that someone would do that. Gives a bad name to legit sellers.

guess i got lucky . bought a amd 570 off a guy on fb he said less than a hour use and had o issues with it and re sold as a working gpu to a buddy that i setup his pc. . i would never do such a shit thing to my worst enemy.

I got lucky with a white strix for 1.7k with og all including receipt still brand new

A 4090 is not a used card I would be buying without seeing it functioning and pulling it out of the PC myself. That being said, there are plenty of scammers out there, and it's just hard to know when you hit some crazy stroke of luck are you are just in for a bad time. Looks like some kid just made off with a nice chunk of change. Hopefully trace him on marketplace to report.

My used 3060 has been working a few months and it's still fully functional👍

gpus attract so much fraud. I really miss the days when pc gaming and gpus were niche. 2010 and around there was so good.

Why anyone would fall for that is unbelievable if only he had a brain to save up money and buy a properly working graphic card from a retailer than a sketchy person. That a hard thing to swallow and a lesson to be learnt from

hope the buyer never gets his money back, ppl dont learn lessions for free, that money he lost will save him another 10k in the future.

Dunno how people don't look for confirmation that their multi thousand dollar card WORKS before buying it??

Hello Brother I am from Pakistan, I have a faulty gpu, but I can't send it to you for repair because I am far away from the USA. Can you tell me what's the problem with my gpu?I have an Nvidia TitanX EVGA Hybrid. The problem is whenever there is some load on the gpu and its core speed passes 1125 mhz, the gpu freezes. gpu memory is ok. its runs smoothly on bios, desktop and light video games. I will be really thankful to you if you guide me.

Whenever I go buy a tech part like this I like asking to see it be used mostly get me to to their house if and if anything happens I have where they live 💀 so they can't do much to do me bad

i think you should bring a pc to test the card with ups

Come on now. Deal was too good to be true. Did the buyer really think a nearly $2k card in working condition would go for a few hundred dollars?

lol, buying anything from bookface

atleast you can flex with a "working rtx 4090" on a display

Always test it befre you buy it.

C'mon Tony, are you saying you cannot fix a missing core on a GPU?

No joke, almost got scammed this year, until i check the store products and reviews wih the same 1st and last digit number and reviews related to GPU even tho the product isnt 😂

Another reason not to pay cash, you need some documents to sue them right away. Hes got balls too, i could not be that brave to buy 4090 w/o testing it 1st.

that guy rolled a d20 on the speech check by selling a 4090 without having to plug it in to check if it works

Holy crap!

Clients lie all the time. I wouldn't believe anyone.

i got a r9 390x off of fb and it worked but ran super hot

cant imagine that

Did you see if there was any ripped pads or missing components on the board? If the board is decent, might be a good donor board if/when one shows up with a horrifically burned connector, or no support bracket, dropped their PC and busted the pex tab off or something. On the other hand, if someone overheated the board trying to lift the core, and puffed up all the caps, might not even be worth it. It looked like a lot of work replacing all the caps in the previous video.. :)

weird story. the customer scammed twice? he was sold a broken card then the shop looked and found it is broken and they stole the parts?🤔🤔

Who goes looking for a 2000$ GPU on Facebook?

Same thing about sealed "new" items, never buy them on FM

If you ever buy anything over $300 on FB or craigslist. Always meet them at their home and test the item... I make sure things i sell work, and set up a way for them to test it before buying. Unless its a cheap item that wont be worth it.

0:48 - Bruuuuh

Personally I won't buy a used 4090 at all because of warranty issues. Most of these companies want to see an invoice before they approve an RMA.

What really blows my mind is that a cooler and shell of a 4090 is worth 200 bucks... thats more than my entire card was worth... 3 years ago... it's a 970 btw in case ur wondering haha bought peak price gouging $197.11 out the door

Dead 2x different dead 4080 on ebay bidding at £800($1000) with days left on them both

Exactly why I **NEVER** buy any computer parts on FB!!!

I sent you a message on discord about possibly getting a GPU repaired. Thx

Must see that working B4 you buy on marketplace.

that is so disappointing and that is why i would never by a used GPU and if you are going to by one always ask to see it working and always be able to go to buyers property to get it as so many things can go wrong in delivery

I would only buy something like $100 on marketplace

we human are become more trash by the day sorry for the guy that bought this.

It wasn't me Tony, I swear!

I mean nobody's going to prosecute this unless they've done a lot of damage. Anyways always bring a test computer, buy a coffee and plug it in at Starbucks, or outside of Starbucks. They're cool, as long as you're quick

Is that the foat gucker Aliex from NRF? 😅

While people should not be scamming...don't buy stuff like this untested. It's over a thousand dollars used, the person selling it can plug it into a PC to show you it working before you buy. You wouldn't buy a $1000 car without checking it runs.

i would take a full pc to test a new part better than getting scammed like that!

Been scammed once. Worked in front of me. Got home and it doesn't. 1050Ti.

buyer beware

follow the story boss

Ouch! People are so lame in this world

From where did you get a photo of the seller ?

poor poor gpu....who hurt u?

4090 for 200$.....

How much money did he pay for it?

Just to speculate, not on this if facefark, traceable and chargeable offense that I hope to hear about. What 4090 variant do you not see, consider design implementations that would be a favorable choice if one were to choose to go down that rabies infested hole.

Lol, i wouldnt buy used 4090 from ebay or other similar places because there are TONS of card without core scams. This is because they are mostly from China where the cores were removed for AI before Nvidia ban. I bought 7900XTX white OC edition and having fun. I dont feel for the 4090 owners who got scammed. You wanted cheap you got cheaped.

facebook makes gpus ?

dude unless i see a gpu working i aint buying shit if the tamper seal is broken

Always ask for a possibility of a trsnsaction through a middleman like ebay or equivalent, where there's a security program available. If the seller (or buyer) refuses for any reason - it's 100% a scam attempt.

Bruh he got got by a nerd hahahahah 🤣!!!

Dirty dirty facebook

That’s so scummy.

Two things Tony. Buying something second hand from someone needs to precede with showing that GPU was working. Otherwise it is buying a cat int the sack. Second, I think showing the person and openly accusing (especially in US) can fire back big times. My friendly advise is not to do that, even defending a person that you trust. Way to avoid possible lawsuits etc.

It’s why i never buy used or sell. Scammers can be both ways.

If you beliveve you can get working GPU via facebook you deserve to learn a lesson. And imagine believe in working 4090. The information is more worth than the money itself. P.S. Nothing happened that can not be fixed.

So many mofos these days

Scam and facebook. Thats impossible

Why didn’t he test it B4??? Ppl don’t be that stupid.

The safe rule: dont buy stuff on Facebook (its infested with scammers). Problem solved. Appriciate you make those videos where a culprit is not able to hide his face 👍