Amazon customer orders RTX 5070 Ti and receives a box of pebbles instead
A post on Reddit this week shows the latest “GPU delivery” fail. A buyer says their white Zotac GeForce RTX 5070 Ti order from Amazon arrived as a box of pebbles. The original poster later said Amazon issued a refund without asking for the pebble box back, which turned the scam into an accidental rock giveaway.
While it is not possible to independently verify the claim, cases like this are a common theme in online reports tied to Amazon orders. The usual pattern is return fraud, where a high-value item is swapped before being sent back. The goal is to get the return processed without anyone noticing the wrong contents.
These scams often rely on resealing. That can include reapplying box seals, replacing protective film, or repacking the contents to make the item look unopened. If the returned package has roughly the right weight, it can slip through a fast returns pipeline. This is often an issue with processors.
Recent examples have used almost every substitute you can think of. There have been reports of an RTX 5080 order that arrived as a literal brick, another case where a lower-tier card was allegedly relabeled and shipped in a higher-tier box, and an RTX 5090 order where the box reportedly contained pasta and rice alongside an old GPU. One of the most popular posts that I remember was literally rocks instead of RTX 5080.
Source: Reddit
