There is a risk in picking up leaks. I bought a 5950X online and received an Athlon X4 from ten years ago. The seller refused to admit it.

Abstract:

Recently, a Reddit netizen posted a message saying that he encountered a serious fraud when purchasing AMD Ryzen 9 5950X processor on the cross-border e-commerce platform AliExpress.

After receiving the package, the netizen discovered that what was inside was not the 16-core flagship processor he ordered, but a 10-year-old AMD Athlon X4.

You must know that although several generations of Ryzen 9 5950X have passed, the multi-core performance brought by the 16-core specification is still sufficient. This netizen must have encountered a very attractive price before choosing to risk placing an order on an overseas platform.

In contrast, the Athlon X4 he actually received used the Excavator architecture and only had four cores. It was launched for the OEM market and has almost no retail value today.

After discovering that the goods were incorrect, netizens immediately initiated a formal dispute on AliExpress and submitted sufficient evidence such as the photos of the Athlon X4 they received, the original express delivery receipt and serial number.

As a result, the seller not only refused to admit his mistake, but also offered a compensation plan of 0 Swiss francs in the dispute. In order to prove his innocence, the seller also uploaded a video purportedly weighing and packaging the Ryzen 9 5950X.

However, the buyer quickly found a flaw in this video: there was a lack of continuous footage in the video, and it was impossible to associate the processor with the corresponding express box and logistics manifest. It was also impossible to prove that the packaged CPU was exactly the one sent to the buyer's order.

While waiting for the platform to process, the buyer has frozen the order payment through the Klarna payment platform to avoid capital damage.

He planned that if AliExpress ultimately did not support his appeal, the next step would be to file a chargeback with the card-issuing bank or credit card institution on the grounds of fraud.