It was sold by Amazon itself rather than a third-party seller, which is often the case with these sorts of fake items.
The fact that the packaging was sealed and the CPU was unused suggests that this was not one of those instances in which someone bought an item and replaced it with a fake before sending it back for a refund.
co-mingled inventory strikes again.
That’s tech blogger was probably thinking “what the fuck, I need to return this piece of shit… wait. This would be a great video.”
It happened to me a few years ago, when I ordered for work an i9 9900k, and inside the sealed box was a core 2 duo… After the seller (not Amazon) refused the return, I looked up a bit online, and it’s a common practice. I even found rolls of “Intel original” seals for 5€ on eBay.
In those cases I just do a charge back on my credit card.
I immediately ordered a new one from another vendor, as I really needed to build a workstation, and let the purchasing department handle the case. All I know was that the seller did not believe/accept the “wrong cpu story”. From their perspective, it was a sealed box…
We need to all start doing unbox9ng videos so we have proof if that happens to us.
I’ve had them instantly send me a new 2tb nvme when the one arrived with no drive in the box. The chatbot didn’t even blink.
Can we also say just how crappy the print job on the CPU was as well? Barely readable other than “Ryzen” and even Ryzen was pixellated as hell!
