Two NVIDIA RTX 3090 for $650, instead of 3080 — someone on eBay was lucky enough to get +$1000

News Devices 07-01-2025 at 13:47 comment
The lucky buyer received two NVIDIA RTX 3090s for a total cost of only $650 instead of RTX 3080 that he ordered. He immediately recognized the «upgrade» by a distinctive hardware detail.

«Two weeks of stress»: eBay buyer soldered chips out of RTX 4090 and returned an empty board

News Devices 04-17-2025 at 15:04 comment
An engineer from the United States told us how he was in a state of stress for two weeks after someone bought a used Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 video card from him on eBay and then brazenly returned it… without the GPU and memory chips – they were simply soldered off the board. After the purchase, it was almost immediately returned with…

Goodbye, Skype: How the legend of the 2000s came to an end

Articles Software 03-11-2025 at 14:00 comment
Today, WhatsApp, Telegram, and Facebook Messenger rule the world of convenient messengers. Signal is also gaining popularity. And we have gradually begun to forget how in the early 2000s, everyone who had a computer used «ICQ». Gradually, ICQ turned into something from the long-forgotten past, and in 2024, the messenger ceased to exist. Now Skype…

During TikTok’s ban, iPhones were sold on Ebay for $1 million — it turned out that old iOS devices were not affected by the blocking

News WTF 01-20-2025 at 12:03 comment
The ban on TikTok in the USA, although it did not last as long as expected, caused panic among a large number of long-time users of the social network, so it is not surprising that some decided to make some money from this situation.

Fake «Monet» for $600 000. Artificial intelligence identifies 40 fake paintings on eBay

News Technologies 05-09-2024 at 10:41 comment
The researchers analyzed images of paintings sold on eBay using AI and found almost 40 fakes. Among them — fakes «Monet» and «Renoir», which were used to try to steal from 150 to 600 thousand dollars

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