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I'm sure you've heard of customers returning old items in the box of a newer item to get free upgrades?

Well forget about that, I just received an already opened and empty box for an M.2 SSD I ordered.

They don't even check if the item is in the box for returns, and illegally resell it as a new item (even a genuine customer return isn't meant to be sold as new).

I asked for a replacement and will make sure to record opening it, if I get the same problem I will try taking action for more compo.

The main issue is that the SSD I ordered is the one that Sony also recommend for the PS5 as the price was reduced quite a lot, except I got scammed.

And yes it was a stocked and sold by Amazon Prime item, not a third party seller.

I'm sure you've heard of customers returning old items in the box of a newer item to get free upgrades? Well forget about that, I just received an already opened and empty box for an M.2 SSD I ordered. They don't even check if the item is in the box for returns, and illegally resell it as a new item (even a genuine customer return isn't meant to be sold as new). I asked for a replacement and will make sure to record opening it, if I get the same problem I will try taking action for more compo. The main issue is that the SSD I ordered is the one that Sony also recommend for the PS5 as the price was reduced quite a lot, except I got scammed. And yes it was a stocked and sold by Amazon Prime item, not a third party seller.

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I worked in the byopc dpt at a microcenter for 2 years back in like 2013-5 shit wash so cah and made bank for being 20yo

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I always wanted a technical job as such, either related to PCs of phones, but there were so few opportunities other than working at some similar crappy PC store for the same minimum wage as working on checkouts.

Everyone buys mobiles and contracts directly from the networks now anyway, its cheaper to get a sim only plan and an unlocked phone and keep it until it dies rather than upgrading every couple of years anyway, there's very little opportunity in technical sales unless you can work directly for any of the manufacturers, and for that you need to live in a city which has one of their HQs or call centres, and then the latter has all been moved offshore to third world countries for cheaper labour.

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it was pretty cool. was commission based and we would get resellers to basically run their business with our discount merch... and what we marked down when applicable. made dumb money built $4k computers.

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Did you invest in ice cream?

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no there was a weed store next door so I invested in getting stoned

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Ice cream is better than weed