A Reddit user says a Best Buy order for an ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 5080 ended with a box of rocks instead of a $1,200 graphics card. The buyer placed the order on 25 November and received it on 28 November. According to his post, the card shipped with shipping labels stuck directly to the retail GPU box, no outer brown carton, and a seal that already looked tampered with.
This is a Reddit post packaged as a news piece without any independent investigation done by reporting website. Someone could have been scammed or robbed but it’s also possible that this post a scam against retailer as well.
Eh, I do think it’s a worthwhile article, because it highlights that retailers should be using plain boxes for shipping high value items, and also advises that people open high value items on video, just in case.
How would an independent investigation prove anything further?
Not publishing unverifiable claims from anonymous sources is an option too. I understand news pieces like „we’re seeing an uptick in people claiming X” but this is just one random guy making a post on Reddit.