r/pcmasterrace • • 6h ago

News/Article How I got a free PC from Amazon

Beginning of the year I bought cyberpower PC on boxing day sale off Amazon, paid like 2000$ CAD, Week later was delivered box was pretty well damaged before I opened it so I took a bunch of photos incase it was worse then just the box,

Entire PC is glass, front, both sides, top

Front and side panel covering wires/ back of mobo both broken

Called amazon immediately, but had to make a ticket online. Took couple days for them to get back to me first offering me 20% off to keep the item, but at this point I had done some research. With how much broken glass was in the box they couldn't make me ship it back to them for it being a safety hazard so I pushed for a full refund and got it

As for the PC I basically took it completely apart and cleaned it as best I could, mostly using gravity, called up cyberpower and was able to use the RMA for the broken glass had it 2 weeks later

Been using the pc for the last year and no issues.

For my Amazon account we had good standing since the whole family uses it and we have had it for 10+ years, no issues requesting refund or returns after I got fully refunded for the PC

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u/Lonely_Box_8074 6h ago

Glad that worked out for you . It's just one of them things I wouldn't order online at all cause of this reason even just a glass case to build it urself can result in the same way

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u/qu38mm R7 7800X3D | RTX 4080 FE | 32GB DDR5-6000 5h ago

PC I won came from France to Australia. Glass on both sides front and top. No breakage 😱

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u/qu38mm R7 7800X3D | RTX 4080 FE | 32GB DDR5-6000 5h ago

Definitely wouldn't have accepted 20% myself. Nice work 👍

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u/SixNine69Six96Nine 5h ago

This seems like their go-to. My firestick remote quit working shortly after 90 days. They offered me 20% off of new firestick.

Told them hell no. They then offered to refund a purchase of a new remote.

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u/qu38mm R7 7800X3D | RTX 4080 FE | 32GB DDR5-6000 4h ago

Yeah only time I've had it happen sorta was when my brother ordered a display case but it was clearly used. Offered 20% he kept saying no they just said keep it and refunded 😅

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u/Frozen_Empress66 5h ago

more pictures of the CAT !!!!

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u/Impressive-Lie-8128 5h ago edited 5h ago

That's how she sleeps when I'm gaming

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u/Personnel_5 12700KF / 64 GB DDR4 / RTX 4080 SUPER / 1440p165hz 4h ago

:3
Congrats OP (and kitty)

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u/Frozen_Empress66 4h ago

awwwww. my senior cat just sleeps on pile of dirty laundry in any1s room.. if i fits, i sits

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u/Same-Substance6951 5h ago

Following **

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u/Summit1BigHead Ryzen 5 9600x | RTX 5070 | 32GB DDR5 5600Mhz 5h ago

Sooo... what are the specs?

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u/Impressive-Lie-8128 5h ago

Ryzen 7 7700x, Rx 9070 XT, 32gb ram

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u/2psah 6h ago

Time to order a PC and go ham on it with a hammer when it arrives.

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u/SigmaLance PC Master Race 5h ago

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u/Extra-Badger3551 9950X3D | 5070Ti | 96GB 5h ago

yes commit fraud as hard as you can

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u/interestingtoot 9800X3D | 5070 Ti 4h ago

how will amazon ever survive

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u/This-Arachnid-317 2h ago

How will the billion dollar company survive 🙁

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u/Dignified-Dingus 5070Ti 9800X3D Ascending Peasant 5h ago

Amazon is about to see a sudden influx of PC orders supposedly arriving with hazardously broken glass panels.

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u/Smith6612 Ryzen 7 5800X3D / AMD 7900XTX 5h ago

Or ship tile inside with the box.

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u/St1cks Ryzen 7 5800xt, 5060 TI 16gb 4h ago

"please package all items together"

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u/_J0e 2h ago

So you didn’t get a free PC, you got a refund and put in the work to make it right, well deserved 👍

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u/CelticsFan36 1h ago

there is definitely gonna be a sudden spike in PCs "arriving" with broken glass if this blows up lol

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u/unxplaindbacn 5h ago

Finally a nice story.

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u/Eazy12345678 i5 12600KF RTX 5070 1440p 6h ago

amazon employee probably made a mistake. you got lucky. you normally only get to keep cheap items from china that are $20 or less. not a pc

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u/A_Bored_Catgirl Computer Science Transfem 5h ago

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u/Its_Whatever24 5h ago

Lmao I love this

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u/Impressive-Lie-8128 6h ago

No I had to get passed to a specialist team that handles high value item returns, that's why the whole process took about 2-3 weeks, but due to be broken glass they can't make me return the item and I'm fully entitled to a refund with the way the item was delived. Also the item was shipped and sold by Amazon so Amazon was legally liable for the return

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u/realnzall Gigabyte RTX 4070 Gaming OC - 9800X3D - 32 GB 6h ago

are we defending the trillion dollar union busting company again? The company that puts their employees under so much time pressure the only way they can complete in time is by pissing in bottles? The company that mixes their returned inventory into their main stockpile, leading to people receiving pillaged GPUs without chips or VRAM and CPUs that had their heat sinks swapped? THAT company?

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u/PackersBeat 9850x3D|9070XT 6h ago

Lol when Amazon was still pretty new people were printing ps4s by social engineering the RMA system. You can still do it if you're good enough and persistent.

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u/markmcminn 3h ago

Sounds like fraud to me.

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u/Impressive-Lie-8128 3h ago

In what way? Item I recieved was not as described, broken glass panels had broken leg on the case from being dropped I assume,. No postal service will take a package with broken glass, box was also damaged I didn't have a safe way to ship the pc back to Amazon I'm fully entitled for refund since they can't have me ship it back I get to keep it. And I get the refund.

If I damaged the pc myself then sure.

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u/opensp00n 2h ago

Because you have claimed the value of the same loss from two places. That is deceptive, unless you told cyberpowerpc that you had already been refunded, and is indeed, fraud. (the intentional act of deception, lying, or trickery used to secure an unlawful gain)

Getting made whole by either place is fine. Double claiming is not.

I doubt anyone will chase you about it though.