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We Got This Covered
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David James

Man pays $1125 for NVIDIA high end graphics card. But senses something is off, demands to open package at pickup store: ‘His intuition that day’

A savvy consumer’s suspicions have paid off after he bought an expensive graphics card and insisted on opening it at the retailer’s pick-up point. There was supposed to be an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti inside, but what he found was just… a bottle of water.

As reported by Tech SK, the incident took place in Russia, with this high-end graphics card retailing for about $1,125 domestically. With a purchase that valuable, the buyer was clearly on edge and didn’t want anything to go wrong.

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