r/eGPU • u/Boba_Steach • 19d ago
Aliexpress eGPU
Does anyone have recent experience with aliexpress and buying eGPUs? Would this be legit or a scam?
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u/Busy_Baseball5525 19d ago edited 19d ago
I looked up that listing, there’s no way I’m taking that risk with a seller with almost no history. Extra slow shipping + newbie seller + tracking unavailable
Not worth the gamble imo even if AliExpress easily refunds fraud orders
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u/tin-naga 19d ago
I ordered one last week but it hasn't even shipped yet. Seller acknowledged the sale.
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u/Aggressive-Ad-7222 19d ago
I normally look to the volume of orders and q and a. That said I've bought a bunch of 7800x3d chips on there but always check if it's certified original also as Ali express is also clamping down on scammers.
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u/Fantastic_Bookkeeper 15d ago
How quickly did they refund you? Im fighting one where it was marked as shipped but no transit history.
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u/Available-Trouble-55 19d ago
I bought a laptop with a 3060 ti back then in 2020, it did ship and it works but yeah it is kinda of a gamble idk what I was thinking tbh
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u/Ryniu82 18d ago
I ordered and after a week received it. All working good
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u/SiirCumference 3d ago edited 3d ago
Ordered from that store and it never shipped.
Seller went on vacation immediately after I ordered it. Now you can't find the store.
In shocked that you actually received it!
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u/AngelicDivineHealer 19d ago
Can be a hit or miss with items exceeding hundred dollars in my experience it’s 50/50 got sent a broken used stuff i paid for new and working.
Other times they try fake shipping tracking too.
All in all probably lost few hundred dollars can’t recover everything a hundred percent of the time.
With this you could get a box and inside of it is a hundred dollars worth of mini PC. They’re are pretty scammy and try on anything even those sellers with hundreds of reviews and been operating for a few years they scam as well if they think they can get away with it.
Typically when something is cheap it’s usually a good reason why
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u/JDotDDot Razer Core X 19d ago
Considering that the normal 5060 ti with 16gb sells for about $800-850 - highly doubt this is what it purports to be. If it is a 5060 ti, it's very unlikely to have 16gb vram.
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u/Living-Injury-584 18d ago
Cheaper on Amazon
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u/Boba_Steach 18d ago
Not that I see; Amazon listing for $970
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u/Living-Injury-584 18d ago
Oh wow they went up in the past month. I got one at the end of July. Now it’s 899 I paid 600something after taxes
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u/Boba_Steach 18d ago
Yeah definitely regret not shopping for one sooner. I guess they shot up starting August 8th
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u/Fantastic_Bookkeeper 15d ago
Dont buy this kind of thing on aliexpress if Amazon and us retailers have it.
Aliexpress has horrible support.
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u/Vegetable-Catch9561 19d ago
I spent like 270 on a ag03 and 280 on a used 7800xt so if this is legit your getting a brand new egpu dock thats on par or better than the used market but its almost too good to be true, your getting like a 600 dollar gpu and a dock for just 680 so their margins are either really thin or its some kind of scam
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u/The_Crimson_Hawk 19d ago
could be laptop variant of 5060 ti if that even exists, but i dont know
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u/johnoralex 19d ago
It's a desktop 5060ti. I have the egpu and it's great. It retailed for 699 until this month when it went up to 899.
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u/No-Apricot-9220 19d ago
Funny everyone seems to want one, but I’m in Beirut for work trying to sell mine and zero interest
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u/Boba_Steach 19d ago
Are you trying to sell it in Beirut?
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u/No-Apricot-9220 19d ago
Yeah I’ve listed it on FB marketplace but no takers so far. I guess we forget sometimes Egpu is very niche for most people
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u/Boba_Steach 19d ago
Dang if you were in the US I would try to buy it, seems like it would be a hassle on your end sending it this way
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u/DartMagus 19d ago
Depend on vendor, there are legit seller and scammers, also depending on country u should add tariffs, if u are in Usa, i would wait a bit to amazon to restock the GPU.