At the beginning of the month, one unlucky Reddit user went to the r/pcmasterrace subreddit to ask for advice. After scoring a deal on an Asus Tuf Gaming RTX 5080 at Best Buy and waiting for it to ship out, they opened the box to find the graphics card data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/customer-buys-rtx-5080-from-best-buy-but-got-rocks-instead-usd1-200-gpu-arrived-in-tampered-box-with-broken-seal” target=”_blank” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/customer-buys-rtx-5080-from-best-buy-but-got-rocks-instead-usd1-200-gpu-arrived-in-tampered-box-with-broken-seal”>replaced by a pile of rocks. After nearly a month, user u/GnarDead finally has their RTX 5080 installed.
We’ve seen plenty of similar stories in the past, from an RTX 5090 box being data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/aorus-rtx-5090-package-from-amazon-was-allegedly-filled-with-macaroni-rice-and-an-old-obsolete-gpu-its-an-impasta” target=”_blank” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/aorus-rtx-5090-package-from-amazon-was-allegedly-filled-with-macaroni-rice-and-an-old-obsolete-gpu-its-an-impasta”>filled with macaroni and rice to an data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amazon-sends-a-literal-brick-to-a-customer-in-lieu-of-the-rtx-5080-they-ordered-the-latest-cautionary-tale-in-the-line-of-commingling-inventory-scams” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amazon-sends-a-literal-brick-to-a-customer-in-lieu-of-the-rtx-5080-they-ordered-the-latest-cautionary-tale-in-the-line-of-commingling-inventory-scams”>RTX 5080 being replaced with a…
