Kingofswag187

Purchased a used Gigabyte GA-X58-UD5 motherboard with CPU for $60, Paid on Nov 28, received item on Dec 12. Item arrived with damaged CPU socket.

Kingofswag187 was the Seller on November 28, 2018 techPowerUp!

Shipping: Seller sent bogus FedEx number, then a few days later a real USPS Priority tracking number. Item didn't show up in USPS tracking until 5 days after that.

Item Condition: Upon inspection, CPU socket had mangled pins, board was useless. That aside, packing ok, board looked good, came with IO shield. No much of a consolation.

Sale Details: Listing by seller on Techpowerup! was shown as sold. Asked seller what it sold for, to which they replied the sale fell through. I told them I was interested and asked if there was anything wrong with the motherboard, they responded that it was "RAM Finicky". That was all, the seller did insist it was being sold "as-is". Agreed to purchase the board for $60 and sent money.

Follow Up: Item arrived, found the mangled CPU socket. Confronted the seller, who stated THEY DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THE CPU socket damage. I asked a moderator on Techpowerup about it, they looked at the revision history for the listing. The seller listing revisions showed at some point listing did mention bent CPU pins. So they knew, and chose to lie to me about it, and hid like a coward behind the "as-is" label. Seller offered a partial refund but never followed up after several attempts to negotiate a partial refund, got no response, seller ghosted. Will not do business with them again. No morals, no integrity, no spine. In 2 decades of buying and selling online, had never purchased a misrepresented item before. Call me lucky.