A PC shop based in the US recently posted their tale about how they ordered an AMD Ryzen 5 9600X from Amazon and received an empty box. More interestingly, they ordered a second unit from the delivery and online shopping service and got the same thing: a box with no CPU inside.
The Redditor, Yak9776, and owner of the shop PC Plug, said that they sent Amazon footage of him opening his first 9600X and discovering the empty box. They immediately requested a refund and ordered a new unit with next-day delivery. Upon receiving the second package, they repeated the security footage recording, opened the second package, and discovered that it was empty too.
The shopkeeper basically gave his missing 9600X CPUs a designation: Ghost Edition. PC Plug said that both units were sold by a marketplace seller called The Tech Group, which itself was fulfilled by Amazon. Usually, the shop would order directly from Amazon or manufacturers. However, the shop’s inventory manager chose to get it from a 3rd party this time.
At the time of writing, there isn’t any evidence as to where the missing two 9600X disappeared to, or who was responsible. For all anyone knows, the CPUs could have gone missing before they even made it to the Amazon fulfillment centres.
Amazon shipped me a 9600X with no 9600X in it 😭
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Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time people have been scammed by unscrupulous sellers online. Last year, the review portal Hardware Buster fell victim to a scam for a fake Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Instead of a Zen5 CPU, they instead received an AMD FX-4100. That’s a 4-core AM3+ CPU that launched back in 2011, pasted with a low quality sticker on top of the processor.
Prior to that, fake Ryzen 7800X3D were circulating the 2nd hand market in Europe, which caught the attention of renown overclocker, Der8auer. Then there was the case of the die-less Intel Core i9-14900K; a South Korean overclocker purchased what they thought was a 14900K. On the outside, it looked legit, but upon delidding it, they found a barenaked CPU.
(Source: Reddit, Videocardz)
