It's one of those rare Radeon Geforce cards. I guess he wants more money for such an exclusive item.

Kahenraz wrote on 2022-04-05, 03:53:

The seller cancelled my order suddenly and told me that it had been "crushed" in storage but wouldn't provide a photo or agree to ship it as-is. It's my opinion that those video card clamshells are pretty darn tough and should have protected it even if the box were to be crushed, unless maybe a TV fell on it.

Maybe there was some other reason that the seller changed his mind? I can't think of any. None at all.

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I presume that you are being ever so slightly sarcastic.

TBH, I would presume that if a seller realizes that what he is selling is not what he has advertised (i.e. wrong item in the box), it would be OK (IMHO) to cancel the order. This is different from cancelling an order after realizing the item could be worth more than what it sold for (which would be unethical, IMHO) .

I am not sure what Ebay's rules about this are or how well they are enforced .

That being said, I do hope that there is automation in place to detect/warn/sanction sellers who repeatedly cancel orders for whatever reason (except maybe if the seller can justify that it is due to something out of his control, like a postal strike, natural disaster, war, etc). Maybe that is wishful thinking on my part .

I was not the only bidder and the auction ended much higher than expected. I did hope to get a good deal of the mystery Radeon, but it ended up coming out to a very average price. So if the seller thought he could make more money by listing it correctly, I would doubt this.

I saw the same auction .. took one look at the card in the box and went . .yup that ones getting cancelled.

As for eBay well as soon as the buyer reported to them that the item was not as described then eBay would issue a refund pretty much automatically and the seller would be SOL, at least by cancelling the winning auction the seller doesnt lose a GPU and the buyer doesnt lose money, I dont agree with it but I think I can give the seller the benefit of the doubt on this one, its pretty clear they were trying to do the right thing.

Is it just me, or does the molex connector seem to be pointing at 45 degrees to the plane of the card - that can't be good surely?

I noticed that as well. It's pretty cringe to imagine what kind of force would be needed to do that.

Kahenraz wrote on 2022-04-05, 08:56:

I noticed that as well. It's pretty cringe to imagine what kind of force would be needed to do that.

Not much, the plastic part of the connector isn't fixed to the PCB so its just held on via the legs used to solder it to the PCB, easy enough to just gently bend it back down. (Molex connectors are pretty durable)