I got scammed

[@techyescity]

if someone is asking working prices and can't gaurentee it works, i always just say now - well i will go test it and give you money after the fact. Scammers will always run away with that offer. Guys like that are total dbs bro, karma will sort him out, it always does.

[@techwandoUS]

Too funny man, I was thinking of all the lessons you taught me through your videos over the years about "getting hosed" the whole time too. Should have listened to you haha. Appreciate your comment man.

[@techyescity]

@@techwandoUS yeah man i have walked a few times from deals cause it seems sus.

[@HardwareSociety-MEX]

For anyone TLDW: The guy sold a product as untested, but had a story about how it came from his brothers working PC he parted out. Techwando made the mistake of not testing it himself. The seller was acting quite shady it seems and mentioned he would give money back if it didn't work, even though the presented scenario would indicate a likely working GPU. When techwando told him the gpu didn't work he played it off as if they hadn't made a deal to have some* money returned if there was issues. Techwando acknowledged. He would take a partial loss, and instead of the buyer giving him some money back he blocked him. Id say Techwando made mistakes, but the guy definitely knew that card was bad and scammed him.

[@wowwhataworld.9590]

Bryan you the final boss for hosers haha

[@DannyzReviews]

Sorry to hear about your crappy experience. It's good that you shared this and gave a warning for others so they don't get scammed and learn. Dude should have been honest and upfront. Karma will eventually give that guy what he deserves. One of my automatic filters when buying/selling using these marketplace sites is that I tell people to meet up at my local police station. The ones who agree, turn out legitimate and the ones who back out was probably because they were up to something shady.

[@techwandoUS]

Appreciate your comment Danny. That's a solid strategy, weeding out the bad actors. I am at fault for not following my own rules here, but after an internal battle of my mind if I should or shouldn't post him... I think it's only fair. The guys a scum bag.

[@mikebruzzone9570]

hahaha. mb

[@dotxyn]

Average Facebook Marketplace experience

[@techwandoUS]

Basically

[@giovaanflores7019]

I tend not to buy from anyone with no positive feed back.

[@HardwareSociety-MEX]

For anyone TLDW: The guy sold a product as untested, but had a story about how it came from his brothers working PC he parted out. Techwando made the mistake of not testing it himself. The seller was acting quite shady it seems and mentioned he would give money back if it didn't work, even though the presented scenario would indicate a likely working GPU. When techwando told him the gpu didn't work he played it off as if they hadn't made a deal to have some* money returned if there was issues. Techwando acknowledged. He would take a partial loss, and instead of the buyer giving him some money back he blocked him. Id say Techwando made mistakes, but the guy definitely knew that card was bad and scammed him.

[@techwandoUS]

This is 100% spot on. Thank you. I admit, I messed up here too, but the fact that he even offered to return money and then blocked me really tells all.

[@OG_D0naldTrump]

I got scammed on a 2060. Bad Vram. Got blocked

[@FrenziedManbeast]

You mentioned 'never ebay'. Funny, I *only* use ebay due to it's VERY HIGH buyer protection. It's saved me three times in the past 24 months of buying broken/bait-and-switch components listed as working. I also didn't have to drive anywhere to meet someone/put myself at risk of being mugged. It's a pretty wild take to try and borderline doxx this guy because he burned you as well. Anything ever listed "as is" should be priced and purchased assuming non-function. This card wasn't worth $200, you paid it. I'm glad to see you admit multiple mistakes on your part, and wish you well in future. Yeah he's scummy, but also if you create a market where people like this succeed, you're complicit to an extent. Be safe out there.

[@techwandoUS]

Appreciate the perspective.

[@YukioZ]

love your vids man sorry u got scammed

[@techwandoUS]

Thank you! Yeah it's unfortunate but it's all good 👍 karma

[@CoMmAnDrX]

So far, knock on wood, I've not been scammed on Marketplace or eBay. However I do not buy anything listed as 'As-Is' red flags all around that. Only thing recently I got nailed on not scammed was on a EVGA 1080 Ti marked as an FTW3, when I got it it was a SC2, still a decent card but not worth the price I paid for it. Seller and I agreed to a partial refund of $20 to offset it. That card is going into a build I'm going to sell.

[@techwandoUS]

That's good to hear, with the 1080ti did the seller post pictures of the wrong card as well?

[@shabazz717]

I sell a lot of PC parts online and have never sold anything broken. If I am ever to do that it will 100% transparent in the ad. I’ve had weird ppl try to buy from me or asked about an item and then see they seem to be scamming and don’t message back. The last one this young dude posting pictures on his profile of him holding pistols with extended mags, and dude messaged me about 15 times to buy a monitor I up for sell. I told him at first I would message him tomorrow I just left work and had to pick up and take care of my kids and he sent me a picture of cash saying “I want it now”. I ain’t getting robbed over 150 bucks tho. Plus his profile wasn’t even a name it was a nickname. I’m good. lol

[@techwandoUS]

The guns in the ad part really resonates with me haha. Locally that stuff happens everyday. I'll post a PC and somebody wants to come pick it up and their profile picture is a ski mask with holes and a probably real illegal AK lol. " Sure, come and pick it up! Come on in for some tea"

[@ErockOnTech]

My "SM7B" just got delivered. I'll keep you posted. But regarding this video, dude this guy is such a douche bag. Honestly, I agree that this guy should have gotten out of the car and should have been more respectful. But I can't believe this guy blocked you! I would report him to Facebook marketplace. Also, lesson learned for me here. If someone ever says "I'm not sure if it works," then I'm out! Yeah man "get your clicks." What a freaking moron! I can't stand people like this! This guy deserves to be exposed and reported! I'm sorry you went through this!

[@techwandoUS]

Couldn't have said it better man. Totally looking for the to SM7B info too. Let's get those clicks lol. As corny as it can sound. Appreciate you always my friend.

[@AAjax]

:You know how there's certain people in your life who are just good people, and no matter how far you've drifted apart, if they were to call you looking for help you'd be there right away? This parasite will never know that sort of deep human connection. He thinks he's winning, but he lost the game a long time ago. FWIW. I'd be pissed too and react similarly, but don't beat yourself up too badly. Learn the lesson, soothe your pride, and move on. I don't do local deals personally, but that has more to do with poor seller expectations in my neck of the woods, than scammers. I usually just ebay or buy new.

[@techwandoUS]

Appreciate you man. Thanks again for all the support.

[@ronaldlebeck9577]

I've gotten a couple bad laptop motherboards on ebay and even fake batteries from Amazon (a "genuine" replacement battery lasted about a month before it started bloating and not holding a charge -- once it got compared to one from a local dealer, the label was ever so slightly different and was a forgery). You really got to be careful buying stuff.

[@techwandoUS]

I purchased a bunch of those USB batteries off of Amazon and what a mistake that was, those things blow up. Ruined an Xbox controller too.

[@kravenfoxbodies2479]

I have sold a lot of stuff in Market place and never had an issue with buyers, Last item I sold was a Ryzen 7 3700x without the box for $110 about 1 year ago, they will let me know quickly if something was off about anything and if I sold bad stuff that would haunt me, even took an offer from Maryland on an RX 570 8GB for $300 plus shipping * bit mining craze days, worked out for both of us. sorry for your luck!

[@techwandoUS]

Pretty solid deal on the 3700x for back then

[@kravenfoxbodies2479]

@@techwandoUS It helped me pay for my 5700x upgrade at the time which was $199 with a free game. Even sold my XFX 5700 flashed XT to a local for his son he said, back then you couldn't buy anything much, he was happy at $700, took that money and bought my RTX 3070 which was $759 back then and I was lucky for get it that cheap new in Oct 2022.

[@FateCarver]

It happened to me before on an RTX 2070 Super. Dude swore up and down works great and I actually traded him a mint in box Nintendo switch for it... I actually just ordered a Ecoflow Delta 2 for Prime day and I will make damn sure I never get hosed again! I'll be testing everything. Plus then I can meet people to sell my PC flips in a public space and show it working.

[@ChipperMcManus]

I am too naive I had no idea people would even do this. If people give me bad vibes I usually give up on them

[@techwandoUS]

Sometimes it's hard to tell, but this guy has all the signs for sure. Really on me a little at this point too.

[@ChipperMcManus]

@@techwandoUS don’t beat yourself up over it. scams wouldn’t exist if they weren’t believable enough to fall for. that guy is just a dirtbag

[@notmatt5864]

I never sell or buy anything without making the buyer test it first unless it's ebay. That's a bummer. Also, northwest repair does great work.

[@techwandoUS]

He's excellent, might send it. We will see

[@notmatt5864]

@@techwandoUS Tony replaced all the ram on a 2080ti for a friend of mine, works perfectly.

[@Steampunk_Star_Raisin]

I'm sorry this happened to you. I've been screwed over by similar people before...#hanginthere

[@techwandoUS]

Thank you. It's not a huge blow to me but It's the karma aspect.

[@Code_String]

That's unfortunate. Man this sucks. Kind of a reality when it comes to dealing with the platform and its lack of security after a sale is done.

[@techwandoUS]

As he said "it's a gamble"... But yeah it really shouldn't be like that.

[@xbuildscustoms]

So much for the "I'll give you some money back." I'm with you. 100% dude is a loser

[@techwandoUS]

Yessir, pro looser. Excited for your upcoming content too... Let me know when your ready!

[@c_saragusa44]

This is so annoying. I don’t understand why so many people have to be dishonest. I was scammed in a different way by a company that rebuilds pcs. At the time I had no knowledge of computers, and I managed to spend $600 on a $30 dell computer and GT 1030 stuck in a fancy case.

[@techwandoUS]

I am so glad you shared this, this was a MAJOR issue during the pandemic. It sucks that you went through that. I spent a ton of time teaching people how to look out for that back then. How long ago was this?

[@0MeALot0]

This can happen to everyone of us, and your not to blame. Use this experience to not let it happen again in the future and double check everything. Try picking up parts from peoples homes. At least you will have a location to demolish in return of receiving a bad product.

[@techwandoUS]

Very true man, you can always go back and slam on the door. Although I'd be afraid of his dogs 😅

[@0MeALot0]

@@techwandoUS lol i was thinking using the bricket gpu as a rock and look for a window to retrun the card.

[@0MeALot0]

@@techwandoUS I mean these kind of people lack the option to call the police because your giving them terror. Although maybe i would be more careful in a country where every clown can have a gun at home.

[@carlosandres8974]

i heard that it was brother pc so many times scammers got nothing else better to say, next time don't buy something where they only show you 2 photos of the gpu back and front or ask to meet at a parking lot or gas station.

[@techwandoUS]

It's always the brother, you're right.

[@CharlesVanNoland]

Karma catches up with people like this.

[@HiltonHeslop]

A.K.A Dwight Schrute

[@techwandoUS]

Haha ... Accurate

[@heinzkup]

Thats a Card for northwestrepair :) he will BE Happy 😂

[@JamesSmith-sw3nk]

I don't buy used pc parts from people anymore since we sold off our 3 pc stores. (I am lucky and got to retire very early.) When I had my pc shop, I could test their parts in front of the seller. (I still dabble in pc's because of crypto mining.) People are just too much of a headache. I convince friends or family to buy new from Amazon. They get a warranty with a return policy.

[@techwandoUS]

You are definitely right about the headaches, and 3 stores?! That's incredible, how long were you in business? Appreciate the comment too.

[@JamesSmith-sw3nk]

@@techwandoUS About 18yrs in all. One store was a "regular"consumer pc store, I managed worked there, 2nd store was digital photography/video production. 3rd store was industrial applications.

[@shadowarez1337]

Iv had this happen only once but it was bad becuse id bought 2 GPUs thinking i was getting Evga Titan X's turned out they were Titan Black GPUs instead with shrouds changed around. Hate when this happens to good people. Karma will be exhausted after 2024.

[@techwandoUS]

Damn that's quite a big jump in cards. Did they work at least? And honestly yeah I didn't really want to over dramatize this, but I'm just tired of people like him. Needs to be called out.

[@shadowarez1337]

@@techwandoUS they did I was pissed as it was on eBay I'd managed to get a partial refund so I turned them into F@H cards since these did actually have that FP64 or Double Precision feature. And yeah exactly no one says anything nothing will get done or highlighted.

[@techwandoUS]

@@shadowarez1337 yeah that's true, you gotta be aggressive. Happy to hear you got some money back.

[@jx9737]

Sorry this happened to you. This sucks Hope that guy gets busted.

[@techwandoUS]

I am in a position that it's not a huge deal, but I couldn't imagine being a kid, or even an adult that has to penny pinch to get by, they scoop this and end up getting blocked.

[@jx9737]

It's good that you are able to put things in perspective. It's not everyone that is able to do it as easily even with the means. Being scammed Can be a bit hard on the ego if you take it too personaly. The reason I would like more scammers to gets busted, simply is because I find that behavior creates an environment of distrust that is just not fun.

[@techwandoUS]

@@jx9737 100% agree

[@danielfernandezaguirre]

the sad thing is that there's horrible people out there doing this to kids or teens trying to build a pc. A friend of mine that lives in the US got a 3050 and turns out it was a 1630 with a cooler from a 3050 XD at least that 1630 worked

[@techwandoUS]

Damn that's quite a shifty move, I assume the guy took off after?

[@danielfernandezaguirre]

@@techwandoUS oh yeah, never heard from that guy

[@techwandoUS]

@@danielfernandezaguirre damn. Seems like everybody has a story just like that these days.

[@teknativo]

I hope you manage to recover some money by getting awesome and real deals! If it is via eBay make sure he say such thing over the ebay chat so you can have proof to request a refund. But anything like facebook marketplace meet up, always try to make it happen in a police station designated zone or depending on the safety of the area, I will go for the parking lot of a super public area AND bring a portable test bench. By the way I have a ASUS 1080p monitor 360Hz that I bougth AS IS via eBay, almost 2 years ago and it is still in its package (because I want to check if I got lucky or if a lose money over a video) And for those horrible type of people life will charge them back with interest.

[@techwandoUS]

Wait so you haven't opened up the monitor yet? And also thank you so much for the comment man.

[@teknativo]

@@techwandoUS No, I hope, finally this month I can make a video about it. Basically the guy selling it back in the day stated that he sent the monitor to Asus support because it was not working for him. In the eBay listig he posted a screeshot from his phone with a youtube video from ASUS support (which nobody checked), but I did, and ASUS sup was stating that the monitor was in perfect condition after running several tests. They sent it back to him and he decided not to open it an sell it as AS IS. So the monitor is functional and not functional at the same time until I decide to open and test it. 🤣

[@s1acr457]

I bet northwestrepair can resurrect that poor 3070tie 👍

[@techwandoUS]

Yeah he definitely can

[@FSK1138]

to many red flags

[@timothynolan7250]

I dont buy on fb because i have got scammed so much. ugh, sorry man!

[@jerrylong1079]

He looks like the type.

[@techwandoUS]

Yeah, I should have trusted the instinct. Felt the same way.

[@bdp-racing]

I hope that dude has to shave his mustache and bleach his hair now.

[@techwandoUS]

Hahaha 🤣

[@schifferu]

ALWAYS LOW BALL THE BUYERS LOL

[@rakhibrehman]

So sadd 😢

[@techwandoUS]

Yeah 😅 not cool

[@ryryk6977]

That’s shitty of him and in other news you’re lucky those 3070s are so cheap up here in Canada they are 400-500 used

[@techwandoUS]

Wow they are still holding that strong up there?!

[@ryryk6977]

@@techwandoUS oh yeah graphic card prices are insane here 7700xt is still almost 600 kinda difficult to build a pc for like 400 unless really old ddr4 here

[@bumbaclot813]

looking up his brother and mutual friends on Facebook. I wouldn't have gone that far lol but pretty funny.

[@techwandoUS]

I more or less just wanted to see if he existed to verify the story (the brother)

[@claucmgpcstuf5103]

Yea man tel tham men Caz it is Veri bad Veri Veri ba .. ever bay enitihg with not 3D mark done ok

[@techwandoUS]

Heaven/3D Mark. Definitely a must

[@mikebruzzone9570]

"A little bit back" is the red flag my take before u got into it. Arsan so toxic don't touch it. The small claim filling fee is more than the damage. Buyer beware it was those ear studs Kyle must have thought he had some punk kid sucker and the discriminatory retaliation case is worth much more. The other issue Kyle is the question of knowing scammed ok slow to figure it out and now the loss offset if in fact a loss offset so yea write it off to education and cultivating awareness. mb

[@techwandoUS]

Yeah it's just a relearn of things I should have already known to do. Red flag Central.

[@mikebruzzone9570]

@@techwandoUS Life is about constant improvement on evolutionary learning that sometimes requires a reminder, me too. mb.

[@dimfre4kske67]

You did not get scammed. You purchased the card as is which means it could work but it also could not.

[@techwandoUS]

So how about the part where he says he would give money back and then blocks me? I don't think you watched the video.

[@dimfre4kske67]

@@techwandoUS I did, you purchased the card as is he is under no obligation to give you the money back. As is electronics should be purchased by people who can do board repair.

[@techwandoUS]

@@dimfre4kske67 So an agreement means nothing. Got it.

[@smittyholden7213]

@@dimfre4kske67as is could mean anything, a list of things. He got scammed, you’re giving off the smell of cigar smoke bud, starting to think this guy is you

[@somekidwithanm4]

Nice Chris Hansen reference! Sorry you got scammed by an idiot. Someone who can't just learn how to do things right.

[@techwandoUS]

He is a classic, figured I'd sneak him in there to add to the scammers vibe.

[@writtenplague]

He scammed you fs he knew

[@techwandoUS]

I'm glad you get it. A few people were stuck on the untested aspect.

[@maxdave9590]

Test what you're buying before payment, especially from FB marketplace, well, it's also your fault, get scammed once, never get scammed again from FB 🤣🤣

[@maxdave9590]

Never be in a rush to buy something, tomorrow the douchebag of a seller will start selling genuine & functional stuffs just to make you feel bad, i'm just been real here

[@techwandoUS]

Appreciate your input. Yeah it's a crappy spot to be in.

[@Electrotat]

You didn't get scammed he literally told you he didn't know if it worked or not so its your bad!

[@techwandoUS]

The point is he knew it didn't work. He phased a scenario that would likely intend that it worked, offered to even return money if he didn't, and when I told him it didn't work he blocked me. IMO, he scammed me.

[@shabazz717]

But. He also said he would govern him something back IF it didn’t work. Bro blocked him. That’s scummy