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Louis Rossmann is suing Samsung after firm offers $330 refund for defective SSD while selling the drives on Amazon for $949 — spat over 4TB 990 Pro SSD is headed to court (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I’d say the play here is to buy a new one and return the old one but do a label swap. It’s certainly fraud, but then amazon or sandisk get to eat it instead of you. If you are concerned about how hard it hits their bottom lines, check out their stock valuation over the last year.

you're also kinda screwing whatever customer ends up with it. For lost time troubleshooting and returning at the very least.

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 2 points 7 hours ago

In my experience essentially all amazon fraud returns that go into circulation end up getting a free replacement.

If you're not returning a brick in place of a GPU and instead return the actual hardware, the next guy simply gets a DOA that looks like a DOA, quacks like a DOA, and returns like a DOA for another one... so the odds of this causing an actual issue for a normal human is extremely low.