Currently, players are discussing on reddit an offer from a user. This user is selling a gaming PC that he himself describes as “high-end.” However, many find the price completely outrageous.
What kind of gaming PC is it? The user is selling a gaming PC on Facebook Marketplace with the following specifications:
- Intel i7-8700K (Release 2017)
- GTX 1080 Ti (Release 2017)
- 32 GB RAM
- Windows 10 Home
There is no further information regarding installed SSDs, hard drives or the motherboard for now. However, even stranger is the seller’s comment that he is already offering the PC at a much too low price.
What does the seller say about it? He refers to the computer as a “high-end gaming PC” and additionally writes in his sales text:
Gaming PCs with similar specifications cost 2000 – 2500 British pounds (approx. 2,300 to 2,800 euros) upwards. I am open to offers.
It seems like the offer for “only” 1,700 euros is actually a really good deal. And unfortunately, that is not.
Community warns of people trying to exploit others’ ignorance to make money
Onreddit many people from the community are surprised by the offer. Many warn against this and similar offers and explain that it is too expensive for the price. Someone explains that he received a gaming PC with i7 13700KF and RTX 4080 for 1,500 euros. And that is top-notch hardware.
If you compare prices yourself, you can quickly find: For 1,500 euros today you can already get a gaming PC from various providers with Ryzen 5 5600X combined with an RX 6700 XT or an RTX 4060Ti, in some cases even an RTX 4070 is already included.
Yes, modern high-end PCs can indeed cost 2,500 euros, but the hardware is then state-of-the-art and not an Intel processor that is 7 years old.
What should you do with such offers? As a rule, when it comes to such offers: Seek help and support if you have no knowledge of the hardware being sold. You should not feel embarrassed if strange abbreviations or terms regarding processors, graphics cards or other components mean nothing to you.
After all, every year new products are released by numerous manufacturers and this can quickly become confusing. Especially since manufacturers also change names and terms for certain products every few years. For instance, with Intel, the names will change with the next generation (via gamestar.de).
If you are unsure about an interesting offer, ask friends, acquaintances, or experts for advice.
What is a particular problem? Many people quickly get distracted from the actual product by many cool terms. Everything is then “super fast” or “high-end” and in the end, only the seller benefits from it.
Especially when the seller points out that the offer is supposed to be extremely limited, that it is anyway being offered much too cheap and that someone else could buy the offer at any time. With such tricks, sellers repeatedly try to persuade customers to buy and in some cases, people end up buying “stuff” that they don’t even want or things at far too high a price. Often, sites like Idealo or Geizhals are sufficient to quickly check hardware prices.
How frustrating it can be to pay a lot of money for only old hardware is demonstrated by a recent example of a family father. This person purchased a gaming PC for his son, but the hardware is much too old:
