I Bought a Graphics Card From "Amazon Warehouse Deals" - What I Got Surprised Me...
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- čas přidán 10. 06. 2024
- Amazon warehouse deals offer used and returned items for a discount, including PC components. I decided to order a graphics card that I figured must have been sitting on the shelf for quite some time, and when I opened it I was very pleasantly surprised.
0:00 Intro
1:03 Opening The Package
3:10 Unboxing The Card
6:08 Does It Work?
6:25 Yes! - Let's Game! - GTA V
6:55 Cyberpunk 2077
7:26 Fortnite
7:56 Forza Horizon 5
8:25 Spider-Man
8:56 The Witcher 3 Next-Gen
9:27 Counter-Strike 2 and Final Thoughts
Thanks for watching :) - Věda a technologie
I love seeing a fellow enthusiast geeking out over a sealed mid range graphics card for 2015. I feel just as excited as him.
i cry a little when i have seen the knife xd
Sure, why mention the fact that the PC industry has become a complete Ponzi scheme...
Coulda got the same thing on eBay for $10 so it really just makes him look foolish. All he did was encourage what passes for sales logistics at Amascam.
During those times I was hoping to get the R9 380. Never did lol
@@Lurch-Bot1 i think no one will actually buy it from Amazon to use it but it's just cool that a 8 yrs old gpu was still sealed
i will never buy an graphics card from amazon warehouse again. Had bought 2 and both of them are shipped card only (in the description it was not mentioned). Card only, no original packaging, they popped the card without anything in the package. And suprise? both cards are Dead on Arrival. wasted money and time on this. Don´t know what type of people are working in the warehouse, but they have no clue how to handle these types of electronics.
Exactly, well said.
you could have returned them
Sounds like a skill issue
As far as I understand, he has already returned the defective GPUs. But he complains about the time he wasted while waiting for the cards to arrive and the fee he paid to be refunded.
@@marlon.8051 this is amazon we're talking about
The Amazon Warehouse honestly can have some incredible deals on it. Got a 3090 that looked completely brand new for only $700 back when they were going for upwards of $1300 or more. Still functions perfectly to this day
Awesome!
but its still a bit of a coinflip to get scammed or not and they can be picky sometimes when u try to explain the problem to them. also iirc the "packaging will be damaged" quote maybe changed and before it said (in a different language) "can be damaged" or "might have scratches" but since they have a multiple "warehouse" products & condition vary by a lot, they prob rather just say packaging is damaged.
Yea, you can find some great deals. Beginning of last year I bought a $800 Synology 4-bay NAS for $450 through the warehouse. Said it was in good condition, but when I got it, it was pretty much brand new. Everything was still sealed.
They made you pay 700 USD for an Nvidia card?!
I'm so sorry bro... I truly am.
Jokes aside, don't buy from Amazon either way. And as others have said, you got lucky. It's a coin flip, and frankly, anything could've been done with that GPU. Suppose you ended up with a 3090 that worked fine for about 6 months then blew up and became unusable due to having been so thoroughly abused before. Well, you already paid for it. So what now? Also, Amazon sucks.
Damn what a beautiful GPU. I really miss those smaller shrouds with simple designs, no RGB and no ridiculously large heatsinks.
Yeah really good looking card
Same
powercolor is like that. i got a 6600xt from them and its pretty much the same
I used to have an Asrock Phantom Gaming D card like that. Multiple, in fact. A 580 8GB, a 570 8GB, and an RX6600 (xt or non-xt, can't remember), at some point. Great cards. Good value. Not too big. Nice looking. Decent thermals.
Miss the 700 line of GPU's from Nvidia on how it was so simple it looks, the 750 was insane for around $140 back in 2015 and I do miss that card sometimes compared to the XX50's line of cards of nvidia's that I find them to be overpriced.
I used to work at amazon for customer returns. It was an XL facility though. I’ve never once turned on an electrical appliance or attempted to check if it’s in working order. We are instructed not too as everyone who is processing has rates they must meet. In that facility at least, we only care about the condition of the box.
A lot of times, packages either never see a customer or the customer sends it right back. Even the packages that never make it get pretty messed up.
I’ve also used amazon warehouse a lot and for the most part I’d say it’s pretty worth it. Most of the items I got were just fine. If you don’t like it just send it back. Only thing you really have to lose is time
Its all about bosses hitting KPI which can be a problem when a business get to big. They just look at numbers
Where do you find Amazon warehouse deals? There's nothing on the app for it and googling it just brings up content creators reviewing Amazon stuff
@@christianrobloxserver7282 I've sometimes come across it as a seller on the product listing. Not sure how you'd specifically look for it in its own.
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Congrats on the find!
Maybe the description was a little different because Amazon was "covering it's bases", in case of bad shipping.
Yeah could be.
one of the corners was /very/ slightly dented@@RandomGaminginHD
I'd say say it's more of an entry level GPU. Super funky fans it has!
Yeah they look so cool
Top end of the entry level. After this it would have to be an R9 370 if I remember right.
@@PimptatoPCs from what I've seen they perform pretty much identically... I'm not sure there's a difference between those other than the name.
@ArtisChronicles There is a very big difference between the R7 and R9 Radeon cards. He unboxed an R7 370, and I'm talking about the R9 270 or 370. Even an R9 270 would destroy an R7 370.
I remember the 300 series was just a rebrand of the 200 series without any real improvements, it's still really cool to find one brand new in box. If you found something like a R9 290X or Fury X, that might be worth a lot more kept sealed.
Maybe no large improvements in general performance, but if you managed to get a 390 then you would've had 8GB of vram. Pretty important at that time.
Fury was decent at 4k, but wasn't ideal because of the 4GB of HBM. It would've performed a lot better if they managed to give 8GB for the price of the cards. I can understand why they didn't though, HBM was very expensive to use at the time.
Yeah, the entire line of 300 series cards was a refresh of a mostly refresh of another series of cards before that. Some tweaks got the architecture a bit better performance, but of course drivers really brought the biggest improvements.
@@ArtisChronicles thats right, i bought r9 390 8gb in 2015 and paired it with samsung uhd monitor and i used it until 2021 when i switched to 3090
Lol, and the 200 series was a rebrand of the 7000 series. This card is basically a 7850 (the same "1024:64:32" setup, slightly higher clock), which is even more impressive when you think about it (the performance). Basically a 2012 card, back then 2GB was pretty high end (the 680 had 2GB VDDR).
I still have one of these in a non working PC, made me too many altcoins to discard, simply sentimental lol.
@@rotemlv 200 series and 300 series were partial rebrands of 7000 series. The only real new cards for the 200 series was the 285 and 290s. (even the 260s were rebrands of the only GCN 2.0 HD 7000 card the 7790)
Out of the 300s the 380X and the Fury cards were the only new cards. And the 380X was a 285X, which was planned to release at some point, but they never released it with that name. Rest were rebrands. The DX12 GCN 2.0 and 3.0 cards aged relatively well. DX11 GCN 1.0 cards like this one didn't. Buying a 950 would have been a much better buy in 2015 than this 370.
I think I've legit been watching you for 7 years now, no month on CZcams would be complete without you, I don't always watch your content but when I do it's a genuinely enjoyable experience
Amazon's quality control is a bit funny.... having bought from both returns and new quite a few times I've had similar experiences where stuff was new from returns but ironically I've also bought 1-2 things that were suppose to have been new that were obviously used.......
When you sell the amount they do there will be problems
Nice.
Love this vintage of cards. That Fine Wine still got some punch. I imagine some kid somewhere getting thrilled to pieces by being able to play on it. TBH, 50 is a bit much, but then again 'new'.
Your voice is amazing! There is a natural radio presenter // voice over // announcer quality to it.
Oh man, what a heck of a thing to get brand new!
i love the dificuilty spike comming from gtaV to cyberpunk XD
Loved the content as always❤❤❤
What software are you using for ur videos edits mate looks really good , im here since almost the begging of your channel im so happy to see you to road for 1m subs ! Cheering for you
I had a few like new Sapphire R9-280x 3GB cards laying around. Paired them with new old stock Xeon X5570s I got for a great deal. They make a great budget esports rig and play some older AAA games really well.
I have the Sapphire branded 4gb version of this card. Never really used it for gaming, but I did run a few benchmarks with it. At the time, I guess it was "adequate" at 1080p for the games that were popular at that time period, but I used it primarily for streaming. Stil have it installed in an old AMD 1055t box.
Damn that is a cool card, thanks for sharing!
Just gotta love that MSI sent that thing to Steve to show his rare 780 Ti :)
Quite enjoyed this one! Pretty good ASMR style video!
I wasn't expecting those results, I honestly thought most games would be unplayable..
Good job..
Good Card! My second ever GPU was the R7 270X 2gb. This one is just essentially the rebranded non-x variant. It ran everything but Crysis 3 at 1080p High 50-60fps for the time. I think it was slightly weaker than the GTX 960. The RX 580 8gb was a huge upgrade.
GTX 960 is way better. 30-40%.
@@Baki-EGW whoops. You are right. I was thinking of the r9 280x vs the GTX 960.
I actually ran a second hand GTX 960 4gb for almost a year before I bought the RX 580 8gb. I have nothing but good things to say about the GTX 900 cards in particular!
Nice catch bud!
Hey you painted the plaster! Nice job
AMD rebranded this GPU many times over a few years. It originally appeared as the HD 7850 and 7870, then became the R9 270 and 270X and finally became the R7 370. During this time AMD was really pushing R&D towards something that could succeed GCN, buying time by relaunching the same card.
I didn't realise DirectX 12 was already 8 years old.
Yeah I totally forgot these cards supported it
Microsoft just being lazy as usual, they pretty much stopped working on DirectX.
Good value imo.
It's probably for the best that you opened it. Hope you can use it or someone else can. Because even leaving it in its unopened packaging for too long could affect it after a certain time. It's still electronics. It doesn't last forever.
Yeah I always believe in using and enjoying something too :)
My NIB 6 switch 2600 begs to differ... It only became a problem when they started putting those explodey lithium batteries in everything. You know, it is all mined by slaves, right? Elon Musk is the greatest supporter of slave labor in the 21st century....
If I get certain cards, they'll be old enough that I wouldn't be using them. I'd simply keep them for display purposes.
I don't know if you did it on purpose or not, but the transition from the GTA5 to Cyberpunk game footage at almost matched up exactly with your car running into the median both times. Gave me a good laugh.
When I first get into a computer stuff back in 2013 I'm still using iGPU with Pentium CPU. Over time I'm upgrading the parts using my spare money Little by little, but always bought second and old gen CPU/GPU like i5 3gen R7 250 but for me back in the days that was a huge upgrade going from Pentium to i5 and with GPU. That making me more enthusiastic about PC parts and technology. And now I have good decent Ryzen 7 5700X with RX6600XT.
Watching this kind of video just bring me back to the good old days I'm struggling to get decent PC parts
This was actually the graphics card in my first gaming PC, same model too. It wasn't a great card even when it was new, but it's nice seeing that a lot of games can still (somewhat) run on it.
This is actually a rebranded HD 7850 from 2012. Would have been a midrange card in 2012 but by the time of this rebrand it was meant as a budget/esports gpu.
Yeah, these cards were so good AMD rebranded them twice! (hd7850 > r7 265 > r7 370)
At first release, they were amazing. Matching Nvidia counterparts while using half (!) of the power. And they were extremely good overclockers. You could get +20% over stock performance without any hassle. That was what AMD did to rebrand them really.
@@adilazimdegilxthe 7850 was by far my best GPU buying decision ever. I overclocked it to 1,2ghz from the stock 860mhz it ran like a beast :D
I had a PowerColor TurboDuo R9 285 with those same goofy fans. Powercolor claimed they increased airflow vs traditional fan blade designs. I was always a bit skeptical of this, honestly. One thing I do know they did is increase the noise levels vs a more traditional design, lol. That said, at the time I bought it the 285 was a great card and quite unique in Radeon's lineup as it was on paper between the 280 and 280X but was more power efficient than either and added a number of features previously only available on the R9 290 and up.
Oh god, that cooler.. I had a R9 285 with a very similar cooler on it, back in the day, and it was the loudest GPU I've ever owned. The fans look quite distinctive.
I've got a bunch of stuff on marketplace before.... luckily no issues and found some great bargains. It's even better during other discount events where they discount the warehouse stuff even further.
What a gem for that price, I don't know if I would've been able to unseal it, I would've probably put it on a display shelf lol.
I got a Dark Rock Pro 2 main unit in a Dark Rock Pro 4 box, which obviously didn't work out so well. Seems someone wanted a sneaky upgrade. The worst part about it was that I think they put it right back in the warehouse for the next sucker who didn't check the product. On the plus side I more recently got about 15% off a Samsung 870 EVO 4TB, and while it has been used a year (not exactly "like new") it only has 27 TBW on it. So it can be a deal; like anything second-hand, you need to know what you're getting.
You can buy a second hand vega 56 for the same money!! Haha! Awesome video as always
Warehouse deals isn't really second hand in the traditional sense, it's customer returns and stock from the main Amazon stock that has been damaged (either the item or the box).
As for the description, they pretty much cut and paste that for every item they list. I ordered a 50" 3D LG TV several years ago and it had never even left the box yet description was pretty much identical to the description you mentioned for this. From what I understand if you receive something from Amazon and then decide you do not want it, Amazon will always put it into warehouse deals regardless of whether there was an issue or not.
You do though have to be careful as recently I bought a PS5 dualsense controller from warehouse deals and it had stick drift, so was obviously a customer scam. (customer ordering a new one, then returning their old one in the box for a refund)
Some devious people order new equipment, swap with broken or old and return it for refunds, Amazons rarely check returns and returns are sold on in "deals" like you've brought, most of the time the deals and broken or swapped items and not always what's in the box.
Another great video mate, just wondering if you could look into adding EA WRC 2023 to the benchmark list / an independent video, My 5700 XT isn't able to play max settings at 1080p, while I know what I need to upgrade to to resolve it, I think it could be useful for others to see a video :) Like I said keep up the great content been watching since the OG core 2 quad "This CPU used to cost $xxxx" videos 🖤
Amazon Warehouse mostly just sells things with minor scuffs, dropped boxes, items that were returned without being opened, etc. It lists as used, but most of the items I've gotten from there have literally just been new items.
i mean we used to have shrink wrap and a heat gun to seal back up stuff where i used to work in the 90s. it's viable they did that
Interesting find
I bought a GTX 295 from there many years ago and the previous owner tried installing the card with super glue!!!
You'd hear dried up glue hitting the fans every now and then .
I bought my refurbished 5700xt OC for $130 from Amazon and it's working great with tuning through Adrenaline. Came in the original box, foam, paperwork, again inside Amazon box with bubble packs
Decent general purpose & retro gaming card. And a good backup if your main GPU dies and you only want an image in the meantime
God I love old parts, considering looking over my family pcs from early 2000s to find somethin good
There was a Wii boxed up in our damaged packaging bit when I worked at Amazon in 2022....., there is so much old stuff 🤣
seeing those fans made me chuckle
I got an MSI X570S Tomahawk MAX WiFi motherboard from the Warehouse for £192. Absolute steal for an amazing board and it was in mint condition despite the description saying the package was damaged which it wasn't at all.
Seems like a nice catch, with the original package and all. :) I just bought a returned 6500 xt, a pretty nice Asus version, for like 60% of the full price, hoping I'll luck out and won't get some defective crap I'll have to return myself. :]
On GPUs, most of the ones you get on their gambling site will be defective. Best case, you get the RX6600 I sent back because it benchmarked a little too far below the average...
@@Lurch-Bot1 that's assuming the package doesn't get drop kicked on the way to you. So definitely a bit of a gamble, but you could get completely lucky.
I had a power color r9 380x in 2016 for my first pc. It handled game’s decently well at 1080p at the time
When ivy bridge came out 1gb vram was standard for high end cards lol. I remember later on getting a r7 260x which was a great upgrade at the time with 2gb vram.
G'day Random,
😲WOW! what a great find, PCS+ was the Power Color top of the line before Red Devil.
Every now & then when I have some money to buy a GPU for my collection Powercolor PCS is one of my search options as like Sapphire's VaporX & Toxic they are a great looking design.
Good to know that you can find used stuff for less than brand new, and not for more 🙂
My very first graphics card upgrade I bought with my own money was a Power Color PCS R9 380. I was 19 and it was such a huge upgrade from my Radeon HD 6870 I got for my 14th birthday. I kept that 380 until a few years ago when I got a 2060. Now I’ve got a 4090 arriving tomorrow. Moving up in the world…or maybe just age.
Hey steve, how about you made a "warehouse and surplus stock PC" build using weird and new old stock finds? That would be really interesting to see
Good gawd that GPU is awesome
Is that a Lightning edition 780 in the background? I'm going to assume it's the ti version since it is on the display. Always loved the look of that card.
iirc its a hd7970 and msi sent him a stand after he made the vid about it.
I picked up a mint condition RX 5700 from ebay for only $50. Just needed reflashed from a mining bios back to a graphics bios. Takes less than 10 minutes. It seemed so daunting to do but , was actually very straight forward and simple.
First, heck yea i love all your videos, keep them coming...
Thanks! Will do!
Not even close, you are 4Th.
@@RoderikvanReekum Uh the moment i posted my comment there weren't any other comments, unless there were a few others who wrote their comment faster than me, which of course is the case here.
@@redragongaming No problem, it takes some time to update, or so. 4Th is still fast!
I've had both good and bad luck buying warehouse deals stuff, but never anything that old. Many good older Ryzen CPU's as long as you're capable of bending bent pins back. Several good motherboards at about 30% off most just had a few scratches, but the bad ones came without the I/O shield or heat sink back plates which were returned because to purchase them were either impossible or more than the savings, a couple came without things like sata cables, wireless antennas and whatnot which are no big deal. I also bought a power supply with no 24-pin cable which was refunded and told to keep with no charge. Note: There's a lot of 420 AIO's in warehouse deals that are uninstalled (compound still intact) but opened and ransacked because they didn't fit in the original customers case, but just be certain they didn't swipe an expensive part out of like a pump/fan controller. When the users trash the packaging they tend to deeply discount, probably not worth trying for less than 20% off because half the time you have to send things back due to missing parts.
I ran a couple of R9 280's in crossfire on a FX8350 in 2016. Talk about power hungry. Each of the cards took two 8 pin connectors so you defiantly needed a beefy power supply.
This reminds me of my Sennheiser HD600 that I got from Amazon Warehouse years ago, it came brand new, still sealed, at half the price.
Nice 780Ti Lightning in the background
Nothing fits this channel better than random GPU purchases🙃 it’s like a shot of dopamine we all need for the day😜
I used to have that card lol. I even played ark survival evolved on it. Well tried to
Nice! “Tried to”. I like that 😂 I think most of us try to play ARK on our hardware.
Not a mid-range card at the time. In 2012 the same GPU + memory configuration was sold as the HD 7850 and was a mid-range card at the time. By 2015 the twice rebranded GPU was entry level, existing between the GTX 750ti and GTX 950.
I bet some collector would have jumped at the chance of that pristine sealed card :D
The card is a first generation GCN card, which is just barely new enough to be supported by the amdgpu driver in Linux rather than only the old radeon driver. I believe you need to pass a kernel parameter to use the newer driver, though. This means that the card has Vulkan 1.0 support in Linux with the amdgpu driver. Some cards that they sold at the same time were GCN 2 and would use the newer driver automatically (and have Vulkan 1.2 support). I still have a working GCN 1 card from back then, though mine is a little older (I believe it's an R9 270). As far as I know, this is basically the same thing, but "souped up" and branded for the next generation. It certainly performs better than the one I have.
Yes,many of Amazon Warehouse sales have ambiguous descriptions and don't volunteer information critical to the buyer.
I recently returned a Motorola Edge Plus to Amazon because it was two years old and not the 2022 version.
The phones look identical but it's the chip, display that makes the difference.
Complain about it in a review and Amazon takes it down for violating community guidelines. Only way to know what I got was to go into settings for model number.
I have had every generation of these cards from the 280, 370, 380, 480 and 580, they all aged really well. I still have fortnite on a pc with a rzyen 2600 and a rx 580 8gb and it plays great. I have played warzone 1.0 on it with no issues at 1080p but havn't tried 2.0. but they 370 4gb card still runs most games in rather playable if you curb your expectations. Love your videos
I've found Amazon Warehouse to be a bit hit and miss, some good bargins on some stuff and then a £2 saving on a £400 item for other things that have parts missing. I did pick up a good deal on a curved gaming screen that Amazon claimed was complete in box to find that it needed a power cable (£5, no big deal) but I've also been shipped DDR4 in a DDR5 box...
In short, check the price of the new version to make sure the risk is worth the reward and double check whatever it is they ship you.
Yeah, I was prepared to ship back if things didn't work. Especially since the motherboard I bought was just missing the AM4 backplate. Pretty minor issue. I just stole the backplate from another, actually defective motherboard.
I love old new stock of tech.
If you get an R7 APU from the time, they both worked together, giving the gpu some decent boost.
As far as I’m aware the 370 is a rebranded 270 which is a rebranded 7850/70. I had a 270X back in the day and it was very capable at the time at running games like Tomb Raider 2013.
Amazon went amazin' this time!
Beautiful GPU and deal. This will be good for playing older AAA games around 2015 and older.
finally an R7 370! I sold mine for $40 to buy a reference RX 580 for $50 just this year.
though mine was a Sapphire Nitro+ 4GB card, very silent even at 90% fan speed.
never regretted buying my R7 370 though, it was the better option vs the 1030 and 750 ti which are sometimes more expensive than the R7 370 for some reason.
The generation before these of R5/R7 like the R7 240 could run in Crossfire / Hybrid graphics with APUs of the time but not sure if it's possible with this one.
Yeah, I had an AMD A10 7850k, where you could use a R5 240 or R7 250 in dual-graphics with the integrated GPU. In practice, a single R7 260 was better and was barely more expensive than a 250, so it didn't really make sense.
Cellophane is what's on a pack of cigarettes. Shrink wrap is what's on that. Crazy to see one unopened lol 😮
When I built my first "gaming" PC I got myself the predecessor to this card the r9 270 which was a solid budget option at the time, it was the MSI model though and I really like their cooler design from back then.
Yeah really nice looking cards :)
How did the 270 fare for you? I had an MSI 270x and had to RMA it after 1 year. And then had to RMA the replacement one after only 6 months, by that point I didn't trust the 380 they sent me and just resold that for a used 290x 8gb 😂 but I believe the 270 was just an underclock and had less memory iirc so should have been the same core iirc
@stevenbasher5363 it was decent. From what I recall, I only replaced it when the 1060 became a reasonable price. Also, I was able to overclock it to similar performance to the X version.
That cellophane often found outside new from the manufacturer retail boxes is often referred to as shrink-wrap.
Last thing I got from Amazon Warehouse was my Xbox Pro 2 controller. Got it for €120 when it was normally retailing for €200. Only had some slight l knocks and blemishes on the box. Was completely unopened otherwise
3:32 the little bit of damage on the bottom left corner must be what they mean by damage
It got me thinking of what i was doing in 2015! and I thought oh yeah Gaming like now in 2023 lol
That 2 GB of DDR5 is a game changer!
Thats crazy !
What makes you think amazon couldn't just re-wrap it?
Box wrapping isn't a rocket science.
Amazon itself sells wrapping appliances for under $150.
And that right side seal did look like it was unsealed at some point.
It's kinda beautiful
Bought a Well mined on and used 3090Ti, well used, corroded heatsink, dusty as F, its been 1 year and it still does 1000mhz on mem 200 on core with a 600watt bios pulling 557 under load. 1 year. Not to mention the PCB was immaculate, the memory may have been used but the gpu chip it self was had never seen a game. Bought for £550… re padded used liquid metal, cooler was left in rust removing solution, the gpu as i found out was mined with for 6 months, then stored in a damp place… basically a brand new 3090Ti
When you have to crank the graphics down so low with The Witcher 3, it might be interesring to run the old version for conparison. Maybe even just a dedicated video comparing it on a few different cards.
Ideal card for older games tho.
Nice.
Yeah that was a back of the warehouse of fell under the shelf find.
Warehouse deals is really kind of like trick or treat. Sorry for the Halloween pun, but it seemed appropriate. 😅
You could have grabbed an RX570 for that price second hand tbh, but a nice find still!
😁
I bought the PowerColor R7 360 in 2016 to go with my FX-8350 for $99-US as a temp card as I was saving up for two RX-480's in a Crossfire set up...
The 370 to the 570 were all refreshes irrc so it shoild perform just fine. Seeing how long the RX 580 has rekained relevant
A few years back, I ordered 4x8GB of Corsair Dominator DDR4 with the fan, in "excellent condition", via Warehouse Deals. Only 10% discounted versus new, at the time. In an otherwise empty box, I got a filthy sandwich bag with 3x2GB of Dominator DDR2 without the fan, and with a bunch of dust. And the rep tried to refuse a return, and insisted that it was tested and that I was trying to scam them. And the craziest part? The junk I got was actually mismatched generic DDR1 memory with Corsair heatsinks clipped on them. The date codes on the memory were between 1999 and 2002.
Another time, I got a GTX1080 for half price, listed "used-like new" and got a video card that was still in the box, and was complete, but was still drippin mineral oil out of it, from the mineral oil system it came out of. I got another half off (so 75% off retail) upon complaining to customer service. Then, I cleaned it up, replaced all the thermal paste and pads, and it still works fine today.
Your mileage *will* vary with warehouse deals.
I bought my 3060 from Amazon warehouse for around $300 after tax, at the time a brand new one was minimum $400. Been running the card for a year now and had no issues. Definitely worth it to try if you want to save a couple bucks and worst case scenario Amazon offers free returns up to 90 days if there are any issues.
you still have that special edition zodiac GPU ?! what a legend, i remember when you got it