An Amazon customer has taken to Reddit to complain that their package was missing the Aorus Master GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card advertised online and described on the box. Instead, claims Netherlands-based Redditor Ok-Atmosphere7655, the attractively crafted Aorus carton concealed bags of rice and pasta, along with a “random dusty old GPU.” On the surface, this is a very sad tale, with the Redditor informing readers that they had saved up since last year for a precious RTX 5090. However, we understand it is also difficult for retailers who have to be careful to check such claims are genuine.
‘A terrible week’
At the time of writing, the results of the Amazon return are in limbo, so Ok-Atmosphere7655 has been “having a terrible week and I have been losing a lot of sleep over this.” That’s understandable, given the substantial amount of money required to acquire this PC add-in card and considering the lengthy timeframe they said was needed to collect enough funds for the purchase.
The returns process began with the Redditor sending photos of the opened package, displaying the incongruous contents. However, Amazon has yet to respond after the whole sorry mess has been returned to them via tracked courier, as subsequently requested.
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Responding to the original Reddit post threads, Ok-Atmosphere7655 provided some interesting additional comments about the RTX 5090 purchase process. The ‘new’ Aorus branded product was sold via Amazon.nl for 2,950 Euros (US$3,360). That sum will include a standard VAT of 21%. The Redditor asserts that they chose Amazon Spain (both countries part of the EU) as the purchase source option, as it saved a bit of cash.