Make sure to tally any product numbers with authentic ones you find online and thoroughly test the components to ensure they work. The latter practice should be enough to spoof out any bad actors, but try to secure a warranty as well, just in case.
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Notton I assume these are meant to be used for return frauds. Buy a laptop or mini-PC off of amazon, swap the memory, say it's not working and return it. Amazon won't check rigorously, accepts the return, and voila, free memory. I assume it works even better when purchased with a stolen credit card and received at a convenience store or lockbox, as you only need to show your package code with no personal ID. Reply
cyrusfox Becoming more and more a low trust society. Still working on sourcing some 32gb sodimms. Street price is ~$400 but some suppliers are showing less, trying them but still striking out. How long can this market keep up? I do always worry about the bottom falling out and then we are in another bust cycle, but so far AI is still eating up every resource available. Reply
Dntknwitall The Price Fixing fiasco needs to stop. These 3 big conglomerate market cornering manufacturers know what they are doing is nothing but illegal, and yet the powers that be allow them to do as they please and screw the world over as they become filthy rich in a price fixing scandal. The big 3 know they can charge the data centers huge dollars because the data centers are spending investors money. The little people (the consumers) have to wait out or bite the bullet and pay outrageous prices for something that should never cost as much as it does. The only problem is that if the big 3 have to pay out to the public the payout won't even be 10% of the markup that consumers had to pay. This is just a disaster that shouldn't have ever been allowed to happen. Reply
usertests Dntknwitall said: The Price Fixing fiasco needs to stop. These 3 big conglomerate market cornering manufacturers know what they are doing is nothing but illegal, and yet the powers that be allow them to do as they please and screw the world over as they become filthy rich in a price fixing scandal. The big 3 know they can charge the data centers huge dollars because the data centers are spending investors money. Increasing the price in response to huge demand is not price fixing. Reply
Shiznizzle usertests said: Increasing the price in response to huge demand is not price fixing. Lowering output and acting like a cartel is Reply
Stomx Ebay 30 years sells all Chinese Li-ion batteries of fake capacity (sometimes by the factor of 10) and charge cycles longevity. Less that happen on Amazon but still by factor of 2 smaller capacity than the claimed is a common norm. Try to buy the flashlight for example and measure capacity. And not a single person reported that though sites like this one supposed to gather not completely technophobic people. Or only salespeople are here? **Hundreds of billions $** fly from US to China every year in exchange for crappy products and you are trolling on rare case of fake memory… Reply
Key considerations
- Investor positioning can change fast
- Volatility remains possible near catalysts
- Macro rates and liquidity can dominate flows
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/scammers-are-selling-fake-ddr5-with-empty-plastic-chips-relabeled-to-pass-as-legit-fake-components-mounted-to-pcbs-are-yet-another-sign-of-the-rampocalypse#main
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