Barrister Warosa/Barosa is Dr John David Gary Apache Helicopter's private solicitor and appointed attorney. They're also in a fully consensual doctor-patient relationship.
the fact he actually sent you photos confirming that that old, broken down worthless card actually got to him while whinging at you just makes this all the more sweet.
I sold a Plextor DVD burner on Ebay that I know worked perfectly, but the buyer claimed it didn't work. I suspected he had a bad one of the same model and was trying to pull a swap scam, so I told him to smash it with a hammer and take photos of the label side with the serial number (which I showed in my listing) and he sent a photo NOT showing the label. There was a stack of DVD burners in the background of this photo. I instructed him again to take a photo of the label side but he claimed he had thrown everything away, which I previously had instructed him not to do. So the funny thing is, he put a refund claim in to Ebay and they said I had to give him a refund as soon as I received the product back, which I couldn't because he had destroyed and tossed it. So I kept the money.
Dear Mr. Steven Jurassic Park, Kindly remember that if you do this again, please accurately put the R9 390's actual cost on the shipping label to ensure that the recipient of this card has to pay the full import tax and customs for their clinic's new card to help the sick and the dying, ensuring the prolonged life of both the postal office and the patients. Kind Regards, Mr Cement
You should send the next one a card with all the micro capacitors, resistors, etc., removed and in a baggie. Tell him you forgot to mention it was a DIY card.
Always love it when scammers get scammed and they reply with "you are a thief" Buddy, you are literally the thief here who spent no money. Ghoulish, fatherless, incomeless behavior I'd say myself.
The audacity . got something for free but still need to make the person feel like they did wrong . thats why scammers are mentally broken , to "want" (and they do choose this path) to hurt others by deception is sociopathy , no joke , no hyperbole.
I had someone scam me on ebay years ago when I sold a pair of Intel Xeon X5680s for $192. Two weeks after I sent them out I got a return for the CPUs, except they were DELIDDED. After adding some theremal paste and throwing them in an Asus X58 motherboard, both of them didn't work. I messaged the seller about this, who of course claimed they had received them in that condition (uhh, no you didn't. The Xeon X56xx series CPUs had a soldered IHS). After opening a case with ebay, I eventually lost and was forced to give a refund. We'll me being the revengeful guy I am decided to give this buyer a taste of their own medicine. Why was this guy delidding old x58 Xeons? Turns out he resells them to mac pro 5,1 users. I created a fake ebay account with no connection to mine and ordered two of his Delidded Intel Xeon X5680 processors that worked. I had the package sent to a friends house so he wouldn't find out. After receiving the package, I immediately placed a return and sent the dead CPUs he sent me back and took the working ones for myself. Of course he got absoutely livid and sent me a scathing 5-star review (ebay doesn't allow sellers to leave 1-star reviews for buyers) but at that point it didn't matter. I blocked him from buying my own stuff and stopped selling on that ebay account. There, now we're both even and we both lost money. That'll teach you to try tofradulently return dead products to buyers.
Can't believe John David Gerry cement brick traffic cone lamp post pepsi bottle door handle was so ungrateful of his GPU. Considering the chip shortage he should be more appreicative.
It is waste of doctor funds! This is life death emergency, time is going for the neady! He must to have powerful card for doctor work, today equipment is not good anymore!
Have you heard of the P-P-P-Powerbook story? If you haven't, it's about a scammer trying to use a fake escrow account to get an eBay seller to send him a Powerbook. The seller knew it was a scam, and sent him a fake laptop instead. The scammer was international, so he had to pay a bunch of money in taxes to get his fake laptop. This scam reminds me of this.
I've done something similar before, except I just sent various bits of household rubbish. An empty Peanut butter jar (Sainsbury's own brand, I'm not sending them a decent jar...), pieces of scrap paper, used kitchen towel, empty packet of rolling papers and anything else that came to hand. Partly so it cost a lot less to post it. Even better still if there's a UK address for any sort of scam, don't put a stamp on it, and put it in a post box. It will still be delivered, but they have to pay the delivery fee and extra to get hold of it.
When you are expecting a payday, a GPU like this might as well be a boxed cowpat. At this point, scamming for an R9 390 is pretty low rent. I feel badly for anyone desperate enough to steal one. Still will laugh at their failure but I feel sorry for the fact their life sucks that much.
What would’ve been hilarious is if he had jerry rigged a small trap in the package that will sprung a turd into the scammer’s face and it’ll only get sprung when it gets opened. A bit of a cherry on top would be that there’s a voice recording in there that is also rigged to scream out “SURPRISE, MOTHER FUCKER!!!!!” Whenever he opens it. 🤷🏻♂️ If it does go through and the scammer gets it and it works…. My god that’ll be hilarious 😂
all you have to to on ebay to scam is to buy a product, "request a refund" and then not ship it back to the seller... (it's happened to me before and I ended up getting banned because of it.)
Nice job! It almost happened to me. They paid with a check and eBay told me to wait until the check clears before sending the item. The check never cleared.
Given the amount of British youtubers I follow that have made videos about mocking scammers, I assume it's just the UK's national sport alongside football.
@@tezcanaslan2877 just another typical stereotype, that’s not what happens here in England, I don’t drink tea nor eat crumpets or crackers, I’m just an ordinary Englishmen enjoying life 😂
Sold a phone years ago as parts only, someone bought it and stripped off what they needed from the phones mother board and then filed a return saying it didn’t work. eBay forced me to give back the money and take back my stripped parts phone
This is such a chad move. As a collector I deal with scammers CONSTANTLY and this has honestly inspired me to make a video on a scam I dealt with recently that eBay themselves have screwed me on. This was funny as heck to watch! Great video man!
This whole situation is infuriating. I use a two step shipping method to get items that only ship to the US for example. There's not a lot of graphics cards to buy here in Mexico, and it's not fair that international shipping is so frowned upon. There was this guy who canceled my Razer Blade order because he didn't wanted to ship to a two stage shipping service. I had already payed for the item, and had to wait 2 months for my PayPal refund to come through 😔
Being called a thief when you are the one that sent the free item at your expense... These scammers.... It would have been better to 3d print or find a graphics cards sized box, put some cow manure or some other smelly/messy product, and then vacuum seal it with a cover that doesn't show what is within. That way they will be tricked and get the full payload when they breach the seal.
I don't sell on ebay anymore cause I sold a perfectly working laptop with no issues. Buyer claimed that it had a broken screen and stuck on windows xp, It was an old gaming laptop that came with xp but I have had windows 7 and 10 on it before. I asked for pictures of damage and I'd get a refund and return started, The buyer refused to send pictures of the damage. So they got ebay involved then they won the battle. So to give ebay the middle finger, I closed my bank account so they couldn't take my money out and took all my other listings down. RIP 12 year old ebay account.
Had my Paypal account destroyed due to similar years ago, a few scammers meant they closed my account saying I was suspicious. Problem is sometimes I need to use it so I just open a new account now and again and use honestly until they link it to old account and then close it.
Yep eBay did that to me once on a much cheaper item so I started standing off my bank account. What I mean is I opened an online bank account, connected it to eBay and as soon as the payment transferred I moved the money to my actual bank account so eBay could never refund money from something of mine unless I allowed it. Let eBay get scammed by them, they don’t do anything to press these people off their platform. I quit eBay spring 2023 because the amount of no to little feedback buyers playing games buying stuff then not wanting to pay was out of hand. eBay is trash now.
"A bit of ABBA on the way over to the post office, just so he knows he's been scammed by a guy listening to Sweedish pop music in a Volvo." That is pure Gold, sir.
There are a lot of scams on the internet... For a low price of $69 I can show you how to avoid them. Plus ekstra joke Why don't scammers carry wallets? Because they don't keep cache.
To Ron Sir: please excuse I accidently typo $6969. Please to me open your bank account such that as it may I retrieve the utmost balance of $6900 forthwith. I request upon to be you that you discretely Western Union post haste! I cannot the time because the gorilla soldiers have deposed the rightful prince of the throne but god shines upon. Thank you for upcoming understanding! --High Priest Michael Jackson Shamona
i’ve had a lot of these scammers buy my listings but always wanna pay outside ebay, this is why i always have immediate payment on since they can’t buy your listing without actually paying for it
If I recall that was the first GPU I ever bought. No I don't mean a 9500GT, I mean that exact card... Me and "Mike from Discord" used to house share. :P XD Glad to see it put to great use!
@@PaulTheFox1988 Mike chopped it up to get it to fit into a 1x PCIe slot. Why he didn't just cut the back of the slot I don't know, it was a while ago. XD 😂
Always send any item on ebay as tracked or with a signature. I lost £50 and a CPU because the buyer claimed he never received it, and because I had no tracking, eBay sided with him. I used regular untracked/unsigned 1st class royal mail and all I got back was £20 compensation for a missing item. Certainly worth paying the extra £1 or so for the security.
Oh my god this was hilarious, I love it. I almost felt bad for him at times considering how much time you wasted but he’s a scammer so screw him, this is comedy gold. You’re one of the best channels I know and great work on this hilarious troll
i had someone like this contact me about a phone i was selling, his bloody name on eBay was "Ben Real" for goodness sake, that's like that alien in Futurama who called themselves "Hugh Man"
That literally the thing I used to do to scams and cold calls, my personal favourite was 4 hours on the phone to a conservatory company who rang my mobile when I was installing windows 95 via floppy so had a few hours to kill, had chosen all the options tiles self cleaning glass ech he thought he had a big fat cheque comming his way then just before he took my credit card info for the 20k deposit I asked a good question, how do you install a conservatory on a 8th floor council flat? He went ballistic and I nearly wet myself, funny never had any more marketing calls on my mobile, bet he had a big phone bill for his troubles 🤣🤣🤣
It's almost always Indian scammers too., using the same "tactics" and flowery broken English. That industry over there really needs to work on cracking down those scammers. They look laughably bad and a joke, but they aren't when you realize these individuals target vulnerable groups like the elderly and ignorant-about-technology folks. Good on you for messing with them with that 9500 GT. It will serve a far better purpose in scamming that scammer than it ever will playing games. A worthy sacrifice. It brings me great joy seeing those scammers getting screwed over. Also good getting people more aware of scams! Some good-hearted people despite seeing all the warning signs might still get taken advantage of.
Usually these postage, investment, dating, inheritance and email scammers in general are from Nigeria.. Indian scammers are just to busy scamming grandpas on phone with refund, amazon, irs and so on scams. I tricked an insta investment scammer to click on my track link and yup as expected he was on a cheap phone in nigeria. Unfortunately his phone was still worth around $200, so that says he probably scammed someone
VERY NICE!!! Hopefully this will be informative to many people that are susceptible to this type of thing. These scammers ALL deserve to be jailed and made to live without access to the Internet indefinitely.
I had a bad experience recently on Ebay selling a similar Nitro+ Sapphire card , only mine was a Vega 64 with a buyer forcing a return by dishonestly claiming the card is faulty. Not an outright scam but something dishonest and worth paying attention to. In my case the buyer was being dishonest by claiming the card was overheating and therefore defective when it was perfectly fine - and I'd tested it prior to shipping as well as after I'd gotten it back. Made excuses as to why he couldn't offer evidence the card was overheating - or doing further tests because he'd packed his PC equipment for a move... Pity he probably didn't do his research to find out he didn't want a card which dumped 295W or so of heat out but that ended up costing me £120 or so as I sold the card at a lower price on Marketplace (with the card losing value in the month he had it also to boot).
@@4liceD_ I did have a no returns policy but under Ebay's rules if the buyer perceives a fault with the card within their guarantee you need to accept the return or risk forfeiting the item and refunding Ebay. In my case it was slightly outside but I didn't want to deal with payment disputes. What I'd have wanted to do was after testing the card offer the buyer the option of sending the card back to him free or keeping the card and giving him a refund minus £100 to reflect the loss of selling price.
Believe it or not, people buy things on eBay or Amazon with the intention of using them for 2 weeks or a month and then returning them as "faulty". I guess if these people buy the same thing again and again they can enjoy the items for free in perpetuity, or at least for as long as they're willing to go through the hassle. On the other hand, nobody would buy items from eBay without the ability to return the items if they doesn't match the description. For example, I have been sent "new" phones that not only weren't new but had minor scratches on the screen or had a slightly bent frame (sigh).
@@Δημήτρης-θ7θ Agree that there does need to be some ability to return items not as described to stop scam sellers. But there needs to be a tightening up and buyers should be prepared to be willing to offer evidence of their claims. When I got the card back I did tests with 3dmark and found the core/hbm and hot-spot temps were well within spec. At that point I'd have sent the card back to the buyer or refund him £250 of the £375 he paid for it to reflect drop in value and also for wasting my time. I'd have used the test results in an arguement to Ebay to justify my case.
@@Δημήτρης-θ7θ People buy them for mining too. Per Ebay's policy you have 30 days from receipt to return if it is "defective" regardless of the return policy. Upon filing for the return, the buyer has 14 days to ship the product back. Which means everyone can mine with a card for 6 weeks for free and send it back.
I would've said "Oh no! Someone at the post office might have taken the graphics card! If you send me extra money right now, I can send you my 3090 if you need it to save lives. Best regards Steve (Not Stewie from Family Guy) "
the guts to be mad at YOU for not giving him what he wants, while he hasn't even paid a penny!! someone as terrible as this guy doesn't deserve anything in life...
Best way to spend £4, and keep him away from other less knowledgeable people, well done. Shame you couldn't get a few quid from him, but a result for sure!
1:25 Holy hell! I usually get 70% or 80% off final value fees, but never once have I ever received 100% off final value fees! You must be one lucky customer!
around the end of 2003, I bought a laptop off eBay for 700.00, it was about two years old but newer than my current laptop. But I was sent a laptop that was made in 1997 and had win95 installed on it LOL after contacting the seller, he said he sent the wrong one and asked me to send it back. Plus he added not to put in a claim to eBay lol I knew where this was going. I put a claim on eBay and wait for them to deal with it. I got a complete refund and I was to send the laptop back to him. I sent the box he used with a photo of the laptop in it back to him. I was contacted by eBay about it, but told them I sent the laptop back. after a few weeks, I never heard anything about it again. I gave the Laptop to a lady at work that needed one just to surf and email
That might not have been a scam...I once got RAM sticks confused and sent them out to different buyers. Corrected it myself by refunding the more expensive buyer and sending them more RAM free. Mistakes like that can happen, asking for the item to be sent back is standard eBay policy.
that reply from the scammer was funny as hell hahaha, he got a dose of his own medicine. I'm imagining the reaction he made upon opening the box hahah. He deserves it, great content as always BBO keep it up mate!
I absolutely hate selling stuff on eBay, but when I have to I list as a fixed price and offers, I fix the buy now price ridiculously high so it doesn’t sell that easy, then that allows me to choose my own buyer amongst the offers, I only deal with buyers with respectable feedback, it’s worked for me.
When he messaged you angerily about not recieving the R9 390, you shouldve said that you did send an R9 390 but that it was likely to be damaged in shipping and that is why it says "9500 GT" and looks a bit weird. Still an amazing video, love seeing scammers get their payback.
Good sir, this video made me belly laugh almost the whole way through. Your almost dry and hilarious narrative over the video makes it perfect, too. You have a great sense of humor and an awesome channel. I've watched it for a long time and just today realized I wasn't subscribed. Thank you for your content. It's always nice to watch. I have a few graphics cards that are from around the 2010 era that were high end cards at that time with matching motherboards and such
Great video! Yeah, someone wanting to take things to emails is definitely a big red flag, even if you aren't buying something. It's a big sign of people intending to social engineering. I like how you handled this! As if we didn't already have problems with obtaining components in this day and age!
yep true, i got super lucky and scored 2 full pcs with rx560s in them for free but the market is insane, i have a rx580 8gb in main gaming rig that i bought for $150 a few years back, now that same card goes for $700+
The only good thing about the GPU shortage is that fabs around the world are allocating capacity to produce desktop and laptop parts in huge volumes again. Before COVID-19 and the cryptocurrency boom, the industry was so much into "mobile first!!!" that I was worried about the future of desktop and laptop parts. You see, the good thing about computer chips is that more demand means more fabs (it's not like real estate or crude oil where there is a limit to the supply). Also, it means more R&D money invested. For example, would Intel have made the decision to invest in gamer-class GPUs without the increased demand?
The other version of the scam is the classic overpay, where they send you a check or postal money order for more than you asking price and let you "pay for shipping". it takes a few days for the banks to bounce the bad payment, in the mean time you have sent the good and paid for shipping on top of it.
In January, someone tried to scam me out of £900 for a mobility scooter. They even went as far as phoning eBay, pretending to be me. Since then, I have a new-found appreciation for anyone who f%%Ks with these horrible people. I came within a hare's breath of losing my money, thankfully, eBay gave me my money back.
Classic scam, getting you to do something by making you feel like you're doing something good for society or receiving something more/good in return (in this case, extra funds). Though I personally can't really think what a Doctor would need an R9 330 for. Extra video outputs? For that just get something cheaper haha. How about playing a Doctor simulation?
the scam is nothing new. If you wanna sell sought-after electronics on ebay you have to do the regular sale (not auction) that way they have to pay first to end the listing. I once relisted like 3 times before I realized this is the only way. Also be sure to select no international shipping.
I do love getting the scammers upset and they start swearing at you and calling you names. I did this once in the office on speaker phone and everyone was laughing at the guy while he tells me all sort of explicit things about my mother after I wasted 20 minutes of his time struggling to spell "eventvwr"
It's really funny to see this type of "Nigerian-styled broken English scam" targeting native English speakers. This type of scams have much higher success rates in countries and regions that are developed to a certain level of economy but not yet on par with Five Eyes of the Anglosphere. Many sellers in those countries / regions are not capable of recognizing countless grammatical and spelling errors yet they tend to lower their guards when the potential buyer pretends to be a wealthy American / Briton working in Africa / SE Asia / Middle East.
The idea behind the bad spelling is that it weeds out people who wouldn't fall for it. If you're not educated or mentally fit enough to read properly you're less likely to realize it's a scam.
Well, this ain't a tragedy, it is a comedy after all about a person who was being scammed & got his revenge by scamming the scammer hilariously to shame! I could as well send broken GT 210 graphic cards to that scammer & call myself Sandero (definitely not from Top Gear).
It's more fun sending them things with trackers to see exactly where they are. Imagine the panic at finding an Apple/Samsung/Tile tracker in the box as well.
Prices for GPU's have fallen so much the used market on Ebay is out of whack with new prices. Used cards are selling for the same price as new. And you can find most new models online now
iirc there's an option on the listing page to make it so you require immediate payment to "buy now", meaning the listing won't be completed/sold until someone actually buys & pays - useful for not having listing end prematurely due to stuff like this when using a promo
My friend found 1 of them gag sites where you can send "Poop" to people, I did that to a scammer years ago when I listed something on Craigs List for sale and got of them money order scams, it was Horse S**t and he got it, and was not happy at all lmao. I still have the screen shots of all of the conversations, said he was going to come to my house since he has my address which he don't, the site hides it lol. OH it was great! lol
This was so awesome, I could not stop laughing at those emails calling eBay "evil" and claiming to "help the sick and ill", and especially the part about you being selected by the Lord lmao, great vid Budget-Builds!
This was absolutely fantastic! Absolutely loved this story and how it went out - the fact that most of his accounts are now blocked is karma and well deserved! Plus, you found a use for that horrid old 9500GT you did a review about (I remember the one, and I'm still surprised that the 9500GT even worked). Hopefully you can now re-list the R9 390 to someone who is decent, and will actually want to pay you for it (and be in the UK). Personally, I only sell to UK addresses, and anyone like that would have been immediately blocked, the sale canceled, and the item re-listed at the next opportunity.
What a wonderful outcome! Seeming the scammer fly into an absolute rage like that makes me feel a bit better about nearly getting screwed out of $400 over an RX 480 I sold last year on eBay. That was an awful experience, but eBay was at least willing to foot the bill on my behalf after I got a support rep on the phone and explained my situation. I had my listing set to "within the US only" and had a "best offer" option going where I was willing to let the card go to an actual gamer for below current market value. Mainly because I have a very strong stance against crypto miners and their impact on the graphics card shortages at the time, and wanted to genuinely help somebody get a decent card for what they used to reasonably go for. (I nearly settled on a $180 offer, as they sent me their Steam account info. I could tell that they were based in the US, and that their Steam account was genuine. I was literally about to click "accept" on their offer when suddenly the auction kicked off.) The same bidder kept bidding the auction up higher and higher, to the point that the card reached over $450 before the auction closed. When everything was said and done, the winning bidder had the gall to message me "You said you'd sell it for a lower price to a gamer. I'm a gamer!" with that similar bad grammar of a non-native English speaker. I plainly said "no, that was specifically for the best offer option only. It's not my fault you bid up the card way past it's current value. You can either pay the full amount, or forfeit the auction." They flew into a similar rage calling me a liar, but decided to buy the card anyway. I got the $450, then I got their shipment info, and I clearly saw it was going to an international shipping agency and not a local US address. When I asked about it, they ghosted me. Sent them several more messages, going as far as to threaten cancelling the transaction, and same thing. My hands were tied by that point, as eBay had already been nagging me for delaying shipment by over a week, so I had no choice but to send it out. Around that time, I saw an eerily similar listing to my card (exact same model, same make, same camera view angles) where they poorly edited my photos to make it look like it was sitting on a different pattern tabletop. Something told me they were trying to flip the card under my nose, but I didn't have enough evidence. It was about two weeks later, they finally respond with a "this card doesn't work, I want a refund!" Mind you, I showed a picture of the card working in my test machine, disclosed that the card is known to be power hungry and unstable in certain machines, and I was also following up with several potential buyers making sure they had a decently spec'd machine to handle the power draw. The guy who won the auction did none of that. They kept talking in circles and insisting that I gave them a faulty card, wanting me to refund them. Ebay support said I had to oblige, so of course I specified that I wanted the card shipped back. That's when they tried to screw me, as they kept literally sending me old phone cases with Ukrainian postage labels on the envelopes over and over, using the tracking number in the return form to show they "shipped it". After about the third time, eBay pulled the funds out of my account, and I flew into an understandable rage, could barely converse with the poor lady from eBay support due to it. Once I calmed down enough to explain what happened, and that I never received the item from the buyer at all, and even be able to send pictures of the phone cases they sent in return, she reversed the transaction and gave me my money back, as well as rescinded the ding against my eBay seller's reputation over the whole ordeal. If there's one thing I've learned, is that Russian/Ukrainian scammers are/were very prevalent on eBay, especially during the height of the recent chip shortage era. What I went through wasn't the first or last time such a thing happened, and eBay needs to have better safeguards in place. That's why I thoroughly enjoyed this video, seeing a scammer get exactly what they deserved for once.
@@theorphanobliterator It was hell, and thanks for affirming that. I can’t stand crypto chuds, their entire motivation stems from greed. That’s why I get a ton of satisfaction watching the crypto market crash. Meanwhile, lots of gamers were just wanting to buy a card to have fun and enjoy their hobby. I’d gladly help out a gamer in need if I had to do so all over again.
driving a Volvo. Man of culture. Also - scamming the scammer was really good and laughable, I really do not catch, what that people think. What's more, there are plenty of that kind in Poland too, people fall into it unfortunatelly and therefore decide to drop any sending options, which only makes getting rare items more difficult. Cool vid, cheers.
great job, I'm so used to the online and phone scammers it only takes moments to discard them and 1 or 2 seconds to recognize them. in my listings I always but no international shipping and no buyers with less then 25 reviews in large letters. but when ever it is juicy or high ticket I in variably get offers and purchase attempts from low review and over seas offers. in our local online markets I clearly state what I won't do and scammers don't bother for I will call you out. but they got to try anyways.
I wouldn't use ebay if my life depended on it, they expect people to ship out their stuff and let the buyer do whatever they want with it for two weeks before deciding if they want to pay you. ebay can phook right off with that one.
Now I'm wondering if Dr. John David Gary knows the soul called Barrister John Warosa/Barosa
Hopefully they are best friends.
Barrister Warosa/Barosa is Dr John David Gary Apache Helicopter's private solicitor and appointed attorney. They're also in a fully consensual doctor-patient relationship.
Hehe, I was thinking about Atomic Shrimp with this video, maybe both of you could do a collaboration?
hehehe
@@theonlyintruder Exactly what I was thinking :)
the fact he actually sent you photos confirming that that old, broken down worthless card actually got to him while whinging at you just makes this all the more sweet.
Yeah true man.
would be funnier if it was a giant d̲i̲l̲d̲o̲. also, did he have to pay customs fees?
He should check if they have EXIF data on them.
all that time he wasted taking the photo's of the graphics card made me laugh
This was dumb. He's just gonna sell the card.
I sold a Plextor DVD burner on Ebay that I know worked perfectly, but the buyer claimed it didn't work. I suspected he had a bad one of the same model and was trying to pull a swap scam, so I told him to smash it with a hammer and take photos of the label side with the serial number (which I showed in my listing) and he sent a photo NOT showing the label. There was a stack of DVD burners in the background of this photo. I instructed him again to take a photo of the label side but he claimed he had thrown everything away, which I previously had instructed him not to do.
So the funny thing is, he put a refund claim in to Ebay and they said I had to give him a refund as soon as I received the product back, which I couldn't because he had destroyed and tossed it. So I kept the money.
😂😂😂 Genius
Good. fak that buyer
Dear Mr. Steven Jurassic Park,
Kindly remember that if you do this again, please accurately put the R9 390's actual cost on the shipping label to ensure that the recipient of this card has to pay the full import tax and customs for their clinic's new card to help the sick and the dying, ensuring the prolonged life of both the postal office and the patients.
Kind Regards,
Mr Cement
I didn't know you watch budget builds! I have some of your songs on my phone XD
oh my
@@skywaytech you are 🏳️🌈
Oh wow it is dad
This is the last place I expected to see a comment from this big lad.
You should send the next one a card with all the micro capacitors, resistors, etc., removed and in a baggie. Tell him you forgot to mention it was a DIY card.
"I use UK Email I be trust."
Ah yes, a very reassuring and trustworthy message.
hehe vpn go brr
He's trustworthy, he said it right there!
He do be trust.
This is remedial level scamming. I really think this scammer is just too stupid to be dangerous.
@@mushroomsamba82 He's not trustworthy, he can be trust itself. There is a difference.
"Dear Mr. Steven Jurassic Park" I lost it at that point. LOL :)))
Always love it when scammers get scammed and they reply with "you are a thief"
Buddy, you are literally the thief here who spent no money.
Ghoulish, fatherless, incomeless behavior I'd say myself.
The audacity . got something for free but still need to make the person feel like they did wrong . thats why scammers are mentally broken , to "want" (and they do choose this path) to hurt others by deception is sociopathy , no joke , no hyperbole.
as a fatherless person, i can confirm.
@@stopcallingmesid You should stop scamming people bro
Lolz he legit waited 2 months for a broken 9500GT. He got what he deserves
Don't forget maidenless
I had someone scam me on ebay years ago when I sold a pair of Intel Xeon X5680s for $192. Two weeks after I sent them out I got a return for the CPUs, except they were DELIDDED. After adding some theremal paste and throwing them in an Asus X58 motherboard, both of them didn't work. I messaged the seller about this, who of course claimed they had received them in that condition (uhh, no you didn't. The Xeon X56xx series CPUs had a soldered IHS). After opening a case with ebay, I eventually lost and was forced to give a refund.
We'll me being the revengeful guy I am decided to give this buyer a taste of their own medicine. Why was this guy delidding old x58 Xeons? Turns out he resells them to mac pro 5,1 users. I created a fake ebay account with no connection to mine and ordered two of his Delidded Intel Xeon X5680 processors that worked. I had the package sent to a friends house so he wouldn't find out. After receiving the package, I immediately placed a return and sent the dead CPUs he sent me back and took the working ones for myself. Of course he got absoutely livid and sent me a scathing 5-star review (ebay doesn't allow sellers to leave 1-star reviews for buyers) but at that point it didn't matter. I blocked him from buying my own stuff and stopped selling on that ebay account. There, now we're both even and we both lost money. That'll teach you to try tofradulently return dead products to buyers.
"scammed by a guy listening to Swedish pop music in a Volvo"
that line was as gold as the cassette
Can't believe John David Gerry cement brick traffic cone lamp post pepsi bottle door handle was so ungrateful of his GPU. Considering the chip shortage he should be more appreicative.
It is waste of doctor funds! This is life death emergency, time is going for the neady! He must to have powerful card for doctor work, today equipment is not good anymore!
Reads like a wings name lol
I got a random message on my Whatsapp and they asked me if I was this Doctor John. haha
LOL the randomness of the words used is cracking me up.🤣
Have you heard of the P-P-P-Powerbook story? If you haven't, it's about a scammer trying to use a fake escrow account to get an eBay seller to send him a Powerbook. The seller knew it was a scam, and sent him a fake laptop instead. The scammer was international, so he had to pay a bunch of money in taxes to get his fake laptop.
This scam reminds me of this.
How is this real? He sounds like an NPC trying to give you a quest!
Skyrim hidden dlc
NPC from a dodgy, badly voiced chinese MMO Josh Strife Hayes encountered and brought to life if you ask me
* Oblivion music starts *
Right, except it's written in Engrish because programmer is from nigeria or something, lol
probably google translate
I've done something similar before, except I just sent various bits of household rubbish. An empty Peanut butter jar (Sainsbury's own brand, I'm not sending them a decent jar...), pieces of scrap paper, used kitchen towel, empty packet of rolling papers and anything else that came to hand. Partly so it cost a lot less to post it.
Even better still if there's a UK address for any sort of scam, don't put a stamp on it, and put it in a post box. It will still be delivered, but they have to pay the delivery fee and extra to get hold of it.
It amazes me that these scammers actually get upset that you gave him a junk card which they paid nothing for.
When you are expecting a payday, a GPU like this might as well be a boxed cowpat. At this point, scamming for an R9 390 is pretty low rent. I feel badly for anyone desperate enough to steal one. Still will laugh at their failure but I feel sorry for the fact their life sucks that much.
@@SomeOldGamers They probably planned on scalping it, don't ever feel bad for criminals.
@@SomeOldGamers would be better to send them a boxed cowpat
@@ffwast international shipping of fertilizer it may also be flagged as an attempt to transport explosives
What would’ve been hilarious is if he had jerry rigged a small trap in the package that will sprung a turd into the scammer’s face and it’ll only get sprung when it gets opened. A bit of a cherry on top would be that there’s a voice recording in there that is also rigged to scream out “SURPRISE, MOTHER FUCKER!!!!!” Whenever he opens it. 🤷🏻♂️
If it does go through and the scammer gets it and it works…. My god that’ll be hilarious 😂
all you have to to on ebay to scam is to buy a product, "request a refund" and then not ship it back to the seller... (it's happened to me before and I ended up getting banned because of it.)
Imagine having your whole scam operation taken down by Steven Spielberg
Not associated with Jurassic park to the future E.T.
And then getting the extra bit of salt on the wound... “Nice 9500GT”
Spielburg*
@@97BuckeyeNut Mr Steven Jurassic Park
Now there's a thought.
Nice job! It almost happened to me. They paid with a check and eBay told me to wait until the check clears before sending the item. The check never cleared.
Given the amount of British youtubers I follow that have made videos about mocking scammers, I assume it's just the UK's national sport alongside football.
Isn’t national sport drinking tea and eating crackers?
@@tezcanaslan2877 Crumpets, biscuits, and cake... But never crackers.
@@tezcanaslan2877 you would think, but the Irish are better at drinking tea than the english
@@tezcanaslan2877 just another typical stereotype, that’s not what happens here in England, I don’t drink tea nor eat crumpets or crackers, I’m just an ordinary Englishmen enjoying life 😂
@@Cooke125 That's a shame, because I fit the stereotype to a tee! Or do I mean tea?
Sold a phone years ago as parts only, someone bought it and stripped off what they needed from the phones mother board and then filed a return saying it didn’t work. eBay forced me to give back the money and take back my stripped parts phone
9500 GT with "some missing PCIE lanes"
Literally has a bite taken out of jt
That’s gold!!! Please do more of this.. this is new and I don’t know anyone else who does this
This is such a chad move. As a collector I deal with scammers CONSTANTLY and this has honestly inspired me to make a video on a scam I dealt with recently that eBay themselves have screwed me on. This was funny as heck to watch! Great video man!
Please send them a diseased rat, vacuum-sealed for their pleasure.
*DO IT! JUST DO IT* !
I tried to sell a MacBook Air recently on FB and had about 4/5 people send me messages offering more money for the item if I would send it to them
I love how he went into full rage mode at the end, the doctor must’ve had a taste of his own medicine and he didn’t like it one bit 🤣
Dr John David Gerry cement brick is indeed not happy from the looks of things
This whole situation is infuriating. I use a two step shipping method to get items that only ship to the US for example. There's not a lot of graphics cards to buy here in Mexico, and it's not fair that international shipping is so frowned upon.
There was this guy who canceled my Razer Blade order because he didn't wanted to ship to a two stage shipping service. I had already payed for the item, and had to wait 2 months for my PayPal refund to come through 😔
Being called a thief when you are the one that sent the free item at your expense... These scammers....
It would have been better to 3d print or find a graphics cards sized box, put some cow manure or some other smelly/messy product, and then vacuum seal it with a cover that doesn't show what is within. That way they will be tricked and get the full payload when they breach the seal.
Or just glitter
Not a good idea with eBay. They tend to prioritize the customer on disputes and charge backs.
@@BrunodeSouzaLino this would have been fine though since he never actually paid for the card
type glitter box in TH-cam
those box can see the scammers reaction 🙂
i sent one a old video card from 05 that was fun.
It would have been better to get a defective high end card and solder pins together under the backplate to destroy his motherboard and power supply.
I don't know, I cracked up pretty hard when he acted like YOU scammed him, when he never sent a dime lol.
Post office: is this to be handled with care?
Him: no.
I don't sell on ebay anymore cause I sold a perfectly working laptop with no issues. Buyer claimed that it had a broken screen and stuck on windows xp, It was an old gaming laptop that came with xp but I have had windows 7 and 10 on it before. I asked for pictures of damage and I'd get a refund and return started, The buyer refused to send pictures of the damage. So they got ebay involved then they won the battle. So to give ebay the middle finger, I closed my bank account so they couldn't take my money out and took all my other listings down. RIP 12 year old ebay account.
Had my Paypal account destroyed due to similar years ago, a few scammers meant they closed my account saying I was suspicious. Problem is sometimes I need to use it so I just open a new account now and again and use honestly until they link it to old account and then close it.
Yep eBay did that to me once on a much cheaper item so I started standing off my bank account. What I mean is I opened an online bank account, connected it to eBay and as soon as the payment transferred I moved the money to my actual bank account so eBay could never refund money from something of mine unless I allowed it. Let eBay get scammed by them, they don’t do anything to press these people off their platform. I quit eBay spring 2023 because the amount of no to little feedback buyers playing games buying stuff then not wanting to pay was out of hand. eBay is trash now.
"A bit of ABBA on the way over to the post office, just so he knows he's been scammed by a guy listening to Sweedish pop music in a Volvo." That is pure Gold, sir.
There are a lot of scams on the internet...
For a low price of $69 I can show you how to avoid them.
Plus ekstra joke
Why don't scammers carry wallets?
Because they don't keep cache.
For 0 buck I can help you to eat GPUs.
Simple make a meat GPU .
Wow thanks guys :)
And i see author like just wow :)
Epic 😂
Nice!
To Ron Sir: please excuse I accidently typo $6969. Please to me open your bank account such that as it may I retrieve the utmost balance of $6900 forthwith. I request upon to be you that you discretely Western Union post haste! I cannot the time because the gorilla soldiers have deposed the rightful prince of the throne but god shines upon. Thank you for upcoming understanding! --High Priest Michael Jackson Shamona
i’ve had a lot of these scammers buy my listings but always wanna pay outside ebay, this is why i always have immediate payment on since they can’t buy your listing without actually paying for it
If I recall that was the first GPU I ever bought. No I don't mean a 9500GT, I mean that exact card... Me and "Mike from Discord" used to house share. :P XD
Glad to see it put to great use!
What's with the missing chunk? Did one of you get hungry one night after the local chippy had closed or something? 😂
@@PaulTheFox1988 Mike chopped it up to get it to fit into a 1x PCIe slot. Why he didn't just cut the back of the slot I don't know, it was a while ago. XD 😂
Always send any item on ebay as tracked or with a signature. I lost £50 and a CPU because the buyer claimed he never received it, and because I had no tracking, eBay sided with him. I used regular untracked/unsigned 1st class royal mail and all I got back was £20 compensation for a missing item. Certainly worth paying the extra £1 or so for the security.
or you could use budget couriers that offer tracking, or you could use royal mail tracked 48 which is only 20p more than 2nd class on most parcels.
This predated royal mail tracked 48. When tracking was more expensive. I always send with tracked 48 now. 👍
unrelated but i spent 30 minutes trying to tilt back my chair
Insanely relatable.
Salty plazma 🤮
Also unrelated, I tend to disassemble my entire table just to clean it
unrelated but i think my wife's boyfriend is eating my food in the fridge
unrelated but my balls have a lump on it
you pulled the oldie but goodie P-P-Powerbook on him. I thought those scams died out.
Beautifully done! It's always amusing watching the scammer call you a thief and the bad guy.
“You’re doctor” now we’ve become a doctor 😂😂😭 that part had me laughing for 15 min 😂😂😂
Hopefully you put a customs label on the package with a high value stated so the scammer would have been charged import duty!
Oh my god this was hilarious, I love it. I almost felt bad for him at times considering how much time you wasted but he’s a scammer so screw him, this is comedy gold. You’re one of the best channels I know and great work on this hilarious troll
you sir are awesome this was so damned fun and the scammer deserved this completely well done!
i had someone like this contact me about a phone i was selling, his bloody name on eBay was "Ben Real" for goodness sake, that's like that alien in Futurama who called themselves "Hugh Man"
I'm gonna spam his email with attatchmet pictures of baked beans
That literally the thing I used to do to scams and cold calls, my personal favourite was 4 hours on the phone to a conservatory company who rang my mobile when I was installing windows 95 via floppy so had a few hours to kill, had chosen all the options tiles self cleaning glass ech he thought he had a big fat cheque comming his way then just before he took my credit card info for the 20k deposit I asked a good question, how do you install a conservatory on a 8th floor council flat? He went ballistic and I nearly wet myself, funny never had any more marketing calls on my mobile, bet he had a big phone bill for his troubles 🤣🤣🤣
The amount of disks for that install was insane.
@@thekingofkingsrp Memory defeats me, but wasn't it about 30?
i love the background music in your videos, it reminds me of the chill times i had while playing openttd years ago
It's almost always Indian scammers too., using the same "tactics" and flowery broken English. That industry over there really needs to work on cracking down those scammers. They look laughably bad and a joke, but they aren't when you realize these individuals target vulnerable groups like the elderly and ignorant-about-technology folks.
Good on you for messing with them with that 9500 GT. It will serve a far better purpose in scamming that scammer than it ever will playing games. A worthy sacrifice. It brings me great joy seeing those scammers getting screwed over.
Also good getting people more aware of scams! Some good-hearted people despite seeing all the warning signs might still get taken advantage of.
What a blatant racist comment. He said right in the video this scammer was based in Lebanon.
Wait until you learn about inner-city black young adults...
Lebanon isn’t indian…
Usually these postage, investment, dating, inheritance and email scammers in general are from Nigeria.. Indian scammers are just to busy scamming grandpas on phone with refund, amazon, irs and so on scams.
I tricked an insta investment scammer to click on my track link and yup as expected he was on a cheap phone in nigeria. Unfortunately his phone was still worth around $200, so that says he probably scammed someone
And it's all in the same little area. A low yield nuke would end 90%+ of the scammers.
VERY NICE!!! Hopefully this will be informative to many people that are susceptible to this type of thing. These scammers ALL deserve to be jailed and made to live without access to the Internet indefinitely.
I had a bad experience recently on Ebay selling a similar Nitro+ Sapphire card , only mine was a Vega 64 with a buyer forcing a return by dishonestly claiming the card is faulty. Not an outright scam but something dishonest and worth paying attention to.
In my case the buyer was being dishonest by claiming the card was overheating and therefore defective when it was perfectly fine - and I'd tested it prior to shipping as well as after I'd gotten it back. Made excuses as to why he couldn't offer evidence the card was overheating - or doing further tests because he'd packed his PC equipment for a move...
Pity he probably didn't do his research to find out he didn't want a card which dumped 295W or so of heat out but that ended up costing me £120 or so as I sold the card at a lower price on Marketplace (with the card losing value in the month he had it also to boot).
As a private seller I would always make a no returns policy on eBay
@@4liceD_ I did have a no returns policy but under Ebay's rules if the buyer perceives a fault with the card within their guarantee you need to accept the return or risk forfeiting the item and refunding Ebay. In my case it was slightly outside but I didn't want to deal with payment disputes.
What I'd have wanted to do was after testing the card offer the buyer the option of sending the card back to him free or keeping the card and giving him a refund minus £100 to reflect the loss of selling price.
Believe it or not, people buy things on eBay or Amazon with the intention of using them for 2 weeks or a month and then returning them as "faulty". I guess if these people buy the same thing again and again they can enjoy the items for free in perpetuity, or at least for as long as they're willing to go through the hassle.
On the other hand, nobody would buy items from eBay without the ability to return the items if they doesn't match the description. For example, I have been sent "new" phones that not only weren't new but had minor scratches on the screen or had a slightly bent frame (sigh).
@@Δημήτρης-θ7θ Agree that there does need to be some ability to return items not as described to stop scam sellers. But there needs to be a tightening up and buyers should be prepared to be willing to offer evidence of their claims.
When I got the card back I did tests with 3dmark and found the core/hbm and hot-spot temps were well within spec.
At that point I'd have sent the card back to the buyer or refund him £250 of the £375 he paid for it to reflect drop in value and also for wasting my time. I'd have used the test results in an arguement to Ebay to justify my case.
@@Δημήτρης-θ7θ People buy them for mining too. Per Ebay's policy you have 30 days from receipt to return if it is "defective" regardless of the return policy. Upon filing for the return, the buyer has 14 days to ship the product back. Which means everyone can mine with a card for 6 weeks for free and send it back.
I would've said "Oh no! Someone at the post office might have taken the graphics card! If you send me extra money right now, I can send you my 3090 if you need it to save lives. Best regards Steve (Not Stewie from Family Guy) "
the guts to be mad at YOU for not giving him what he wants, while he hasn't even paid a penny!! someone as terrible as this guy doesn't deserve anything in life...
Best way to spend £4, and keep him away from other less knowledgeable people, well done. Shame you couldn't get a few quid from him, but a result for sure!
1:25 Holy hell! I usually get 70% or 80% off final value fees, but never once have I ever received 100% off final value fees! You must be one lucky customer!
around the end of 2003, I bought a laptop off eBay for 700.00, it was about two years old but newer than my current laptop. But I was sent a laptop that was made in 1997 and had win95 installed on it LOL after contacting the seller, he said he sent the wrong one and asked me to send it back. Plus he added not to put in a claim to eBay lol I knew where this was going. I put a claim on eBay and wait for them to deal with it. I got a complete refund and I was to send the laptop back to him. I sent the box he used with a photo of the laptop in it back to him. I was contacted by eBay about it, but told them I sent the laptop back. after a few weeks, I never heard anything about it again. I gave the Laptop to a lady at work that needed one just to surf and email
That might not have been a scam...I once got RAM sticks confused and sent them out to different buyers. Corrected it myself by refunding the more expensive buyer and sending them more RAM free. Mistakes like that can happen, asking for the item to be sent back is standard eBay policy.
Loving the kitboga energy, if this ever happens to you again I'd love to see more
The email format feels more like Atomic Shrimp or Pleasant Green, ngl
This was absolutely beautiful. Well done
that reply from the scammer was funny as hell hahaha, he got a dose of his own medicine. I'm imagining the reaction he made upon opening the box hahah. He deserves it, great content as always BBO keep it up mate!
I absolutely hate selling stuff on eBay, but when I have to I list as a fixed price and offers, I fix the buy now price ridiculously high so it doesn’t sell that easy, then that allows me to choose my own buyer amongst the offers, I only deal with buyers with respectable feedback, it’s worked for me.
He woke up and choose to be Jim Browning
Great video.
What a way to turn an annoying situation into 15 mins of entertainment for a few thousand people.
When he messaged you angerily about not recieving the R9 390, you shouldve said that you did send an R9 390 but that it was likely to be damaged in shipping and that is why it says "9500 GT" and looks a bit weird.
Still an amazing video, love seeing scammers get their payback.
Nice profile pic
Good sir, this video made me belly laugh almost the whole way through. Your almost dry and hilarious narrative over the video makes it perfect, too. You have a great sense of humor and an awesome channel. I've watched it for a long time and just today realized I wasn't subscribed. Thank you for your content. It's always nice to watch. I have a few graphics cards that are from around the 2010 era that were high end cards at that time with matching motherboards and such
I love his bad english, "I use email, I be trust", pure comedy
Great video! Yeah, someone wanting to take things to emails is definitely a big red flag, even if you aren't buying something. It's a big sign of people intending to social engineering. I like how you handled this! As if we didn't already have problems with obtaining components in this day and age!
Man it's gonna be a while before gpu market goes back to normal
Yeah
Yeah it's gonna be a while, and half my work revolves around blender and unity so I can't upgrade for a while to help make things stable.
yep true, i got super lucky and scored 2 full pcs with rx560s in them for free but the market is insane, i have a rx580 8gb in main gaming rig that i bought for $150 a few years back, now that same card goes for $700+
The only good thing about the GPU shortage is that fabs around the world are allocating capacity to produce desktop and laptop parts in huge volumes again. Before COVID-19 and the cryptocurrency boom, the industry was so much into "mobile first!!!" that I was worried about the future of desktop and laptop parts. You see, the good thing about computer chips is that more demand means more fabs (it's not like real estate or crude oil where there is a limit to the supply). Also, it means more R&D money invested. For example, would Intel have made the decision to invest in gamer-class GPUs without the increased demand?
It's not going to go back to normal...
You need to do more of these, helping a lot of doctors 🙏
Feels good when they actually responded at the gpu lol
The other version of the scam is the classic overpay, where they send you a check or postal money order for more than you asking price and let you "pay for shipping". it takes a few days for the banks to bounce the bad payment, in the mean time you have sent the good and paid for shipping on top of it.
Very good!
At least you made something funny out of losing your free sale voucher:)
In January, someone tried to scam me out of £900 for a mobility scooter. They even went as far as phoning eBay, pretending to be me. Since then, I have a new-found appreciation for anyone who f%%Ks with these horrible people.
I came within a hare's breath of losing my money, thankfully, eBay gave me my money back.
Classic scam, getting you to do something by making you feel like you're doing something good for society or receiving something more/good in return (in this case, extra funds).
Though I personally can't really think what a Doctor would need an R9 330 for. Extra video outputs? For that just get something cheaper haha. How about playing a Doctor simulation?
To view wikihow in 4k
Surgeon Simulator can be pretty demanding.
if extra video outputs is all a person needs, a 9500GT is all that needs ... srsly ...
the scam is nothing new. If you wanna sell sought-after electronics on ebay you have to do the regular sale (not auction) that way they have to pay first to end the listing. I once relisted like 3 times before I realized this is the only way. Also be sure to select no international shipping.
Serves Dr Cement Brick right for trying to scam his trusted friend Steven Jurassic Park!
I do love getting the scammers upset and they start swearing at you and calling you names. I did this once in the office on speaker phone and everyone was laughing at the guy while he tells me all sort of explicit things about my mother after I wasted 20 minutes of his time struggling to spell "eventvwr"
It's really funny to see this type of "Nigerian-styled broken English scam" targeting native English speakers. This type of scams have much higher success rates in countries and regions that are developed to a certain level of economy but not yet on par with Five Eyes of the Anglosphere. Many sellers in those countries / regions are not capable of recognizing countless grammatical and spelling errors yet they tend to lower their guards when the potential buyer pretends to be a wealthy American / Briton working in Africa / SE Asia / Middle East.
The idea behind the bad spelling is that it weeds out people who wouldn't fall for it. If you're not educated or mentally fit enough to read properly you're less likely to realize it's a scam.
That 9500GT is gonna get relisted as a 3090ti
Well, this ain't a tragedy, it is a comedy after all about a person who was being scammed & got his revenge by scamming the scammer hilariously to shame! I could as well send broken GT 210 graphic cards to that scammer & call myself Sandero (definitely not from Top Gear).
Sandero (Not related to Renault's car)
Dacia Sandero?
It's more fun sending them things with trackers to see exactly where they are. Imagine the panic at finding an Apple/Samsung/Tile tracker in the box as well.
Congrats on getting your doctor's license. Cool stuff !
Prices for GPU's have fallen so much the used market on Ebay is out of whack with new prices. Used cards are selling for the same price as new. And you can find most new models online now
The doctor wants to game with a graphics card
Well now he can play space invaders...
iirc there's an option on the listing page to make it so you require immediate payment to "buy now", meaning the listing won't be completed/sold until someone actually buys & pays - useful for not having listing end prematurely due to stuff like this when using a promo
My friend found 1 of them gag sites where you can send "Poop" to people, I did that to a scammer years ago when I listed something on Craigs List for sale and got of them money order scams, it was Horse S**t and he got it, and was not happy at all lmao. I still have the screen shots of all of the conversations, said he was going to come to my house since he has my address which he don't, the site hides it lol. OH it was great! lol
Thank you for taking the time to make this video, much appreciated.
I think he can still save a lot of lives with the help of 9500 GT, but the research may take a litte bit longer though.
Ohh I love the little tiny 9500gt with the shiny orange heatsink, it makes just enough framerate to beat crysis at 800x600 :)
It’s always good to get a scammer and scam them back.
Classic - love his reaction emails - funny - u got him hook line and sinker
you should ask him for just the shipping costs up front. not much 10-15 quid, see if that stuck
This was so awesome, I could not stop laughing at those emails calling eBay "evil" and claiming to "help the sick and ill", and especially the part about you being selected by the Lord lmao, great vid Budget-Builds!
Dude you're absolutely rocking with your casettes. Awesome! 🤩
This was absolutely fantastic! Absolutely loved this story and how it went out - the fact that most of his accounts are now blocked is karma and well deserved!
Plus, you found a use for that horrid old 9500GT you did a review about (I remember the one, and I'm still surprised that the 9500GT even worked).
Hopefully you can now re-list the R9 390 to someone who is decent, and will actually want to pay you for it (and be in the UK).
Personally, I only sell to UK addresses, and anyone like that would have been immediately blocked, the sale canceled, and the item re-listed at the next opportunity.
Goddamn this is comedy gold. Well done Mr. Steven, I look forward to your next video/feature film.
What a wonderful outcome! Seeming the scammer fly into an absolute rage like that makes me feel a bit better about nearly getting screwed out of $400 over an RX 480 I sold last year on eBay. That was an awful experience, but eBay was at least willing to foot the bill on my behalf after I got a support rep on the phone and explained my situation.
I had my listing set to "within the US only" and had a "best offer" option going where I was willing to let the card go to an actual gamer for below current market value. Mainly because I have a very strong stance against crypto miners and their impact on the graphics card shortages at the time, and wanted to genuinely help somebody get a decent card for what they used to reasonably go for. (I nearly settled on a $180 offer, as they sent me their Steam account info. I could tell that they were based in the US, and that their Steam account was genuine. I was literally about to click "accept" on their offer when suddenly the auction kicked off.) The same bidder kept bidding the auction up higher and higher, to the point that the card reached over $450 before the auction closed. When everything was said and done, the winning bidder had the gall to message me "You said you'd sell it for a lower price to a gamer. I'm a gamer!" with that similar bad grammar of a non-native English speaker. I plainly said "no, that was specifically for the best offer option only. It's not my fault you bid up the card way past it's current value. You can either pay the full amount, or forfeit the auction." They flew into a similar rage calling me a liar, but decided to buy the card anyway. I got the $450, then I got their shipment info, and I clearly saw it was going to an international shipping agency and not a local US address. When I asked about it, they ghosted me. Sent them several more messages, going as far as to threaten cancelling the transaction, and same thing. My hands were tied by that point, as eBay had already been nagging me for delaying shipment by over a week, so I had no choice but to send it out. Around that time, I saw an eerily similar listing to my card (exact same model, same make, same camera view angles) where they poorly edited my photos to make it look like it was sitting on a different pattern tabletop. Something told me they were trying to flip the card under my nose, but I didn't have enough evidence.
It was about two weeks later, they finally respond with a "this card doesn't work, I want a refund!" Mind you, I showed a picture of the card working in my test machine, disclosed that the card is known to be power hungry and unstable in certain machines, and I was also following up with several potential buyers making sure they had a decently spec'd machine to handle the power draw. The guy who won the auction did none of that. They kept talking in circles and insisting that I gave them a faulty card, wanting me to refund them. Ebay support said I had to oblige, so of course I specified that I wanted the card shipped back. That's when they tried to screw me, as they kept literally sending me old phone cases with Ukrainian postage labels on the envelopes over and over, using the tracking number in the return form to show they "shipped it". After about the third time, eBay pulled the funds out of my account, and I flew into an understandable rage, could barely converse with the poor lady from eBay support due to it. Once I calmed down enough to explain what happened, and that I never received the item from the buyer at all, and even be able to send pictures of the phone cases they sent in return, she reversed the transaction and gave me my money back, as well as rescinded the ding against my eBay seller's reputation over the whole ordeal.
If there's one thing I've learned, is that Russian/Ukrainian scammers are/were very prevalent on eBay, especially during the height of the recent chip shortage era. What I went through wasn't the first or last time such a thing happened, and eBay needs to have better safeguards in place. That's why I thoroughly enjoyed this video, seeing a scammer get exactly what they deserved for once.
wow that sounds like hell. you're a really nice guy for wanting to hook gamers up
@@theorphanobliterator It was hell, and thanks for affirming that. I can’t stand crypto chuds, their entire motivation stems from greed. That’s why I get a ton of satisfaction watching the crypto market crash.
Meanwhile, lots of gamers were just wanting to buy a card to have fun and enjoy their hobby. I’d gladly help out a gamer in need if I had to do so all over again.
I would have send him a blockbuster video card
Wondering what "the eBays" has done to this guy that was so evil😂
driving a Volvo.
Man of culture.
Also - scamming the scammer was really good and laughable, I really do not catch, what that people think. What's more, there are plenty of that kind in Poland too, people fall into it unfortunatelly and therefore decide to drop any sending options, which only makes getting rare items more difficult.
Cool vid, cheers.
What a hero you are!
Also, nice work on the TTD music 👍🏻
This was so fun to watch
great job, I'm so used to the online and phone scammers it only takes moments to discard them and 1 or 2 seconds to recognize them. in my listings I always but no international shipping and no buyers with less then 25 reviews in large letters. but when ever it is juicy or high ticket I in variably get offers and purchase attempts from low review and over seas offers. in our local online markets I clearly state what I won't do and scammers don't bother for I will call you out. but they got to try anyways.
I wouldn't use ebay if my life depended on it, they expect people to ship out their stuff and let the buyer do whatever they want with it for two weeks before
deciding if they want to pay you.
ebay can phook right off with that one.