While some fakes require you to look carefully to find the trickery, others are quite obvious. That’s what happened to Aris from Hardware Buster, who came across a blatant fake of a Ryzen 7 9800X3D. However, what’s most worrying is that he bought his processor from Amazon.de, as a new product and not a second-hand one from a merchant marketplace.
A Ryzen 7 9800X3D sold on Amazon.de!
Basically, what we have here is an old AMD FX with a Ryzen 9800X3D sticker stuck on, and that’s it. Unlike some Chinese counterfeiters, who go to great lengths to achieve this level of detail, here it’s pretty basic and crude. However, that’s all it took for this model to find its way into Amazon’s stock of CPUs for sale. And that’s the most worrying part of the problem. How did this fake end up on Amazon.de? That’s the question. In the meantime, the seller will have to inspect all his stock to make sure there are no others. The worst thing for a sales platform like this would be to lose credibility. How can you sell to customers if they don’t trust you?
For the time being, we can only speculate, wondering whether this was a customer return that was then hastily redispatched by a rather inconsiderate employee. Was it a unit that just happened to be there? It’s hard to say.
Whatever the case, the processor has been returned to the merchant, and the customer is awaiting a refund… Which is going to take something like three weeks… In short, a big waste of time for Hardware Buster, who will have to postpone their projects. Well, at least they’ll get their money back, unfortunately that’s far from the norm in this kind of business.
