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The NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti graphics card was sold for $1.63. A visitor to the American online store Newegg shared a photo of the offer he found (the product has now been removed). Unfortunately, the shipping cost for the refurbished NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti was $400, making it uncompetitive compared to other such graphics cards on Newegg. The graphics card could be paid for in four payments of $0.41.
The product card did not contain any information about the graphics card itself, except that it was a 1080 Ti with 11 GB of built-in memory. The photos show the MSI GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X Trio, which cost $799 when it was released 7 years ago — at the time, it was one of the highest priced consumer graphics cards.
The Creator Store seller promised that the video card would be “80-90% new”, in good condition and 100% tested before fixing. Creator is a Shanghai-based “young fashion” brand that also sells a range of PC components. A rating of 3.7 is not the lowest and indicates that the store is at least not 100% a scam.
Items with $400 shipping include a gaming PC, Vive Pro VR headset, and select PCIe expansion cards. Other items do not ship for $400, but the prices seem to be written at random. Samsung's 2TB SSD is on sale for just $80, with a Transformers figure next to it for $500.
Those who were hoping for cheaper pick-up delivery were also out of luck. The $1.63 NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti was only available for shipping in the US. The Creator Store does offer free returns within 30 days, but its return policy seems overly complicated, with few easy ways to avoid returns. Probably no one was going to return $400 either.
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A Newegg spokesperson responded to a request from Tom`s Hardware: the product violates the marketplace policy and will be removed, which happened in a few hours.
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