Nope, reviews were all fine. Even the seller reviews at the time were fine. It was the seller that Amazon was shoving up when searching for the processor. Two weeks later, yes - the seller was crammed with negative reviews, including mine.
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There was a fairly widespread one earlier in the year, where people buying CPUs and GPUs from Amazon were given a $1 iphone lens cover instead. I got pinched on it as well - ordered a 7800x3D and got the lens, and it took me almost six weeks to get a refund out of Amazon. The irritating thing is that it wasn’t any sort of crazy deal, it was just MSRP and what was coming up when searching for it on Amazon.
Their seller reviews were absolutely crammed with people talking about the same issue with them, and one enterprising Redditor even managed to deduce from photos of the shipping labels that they were all coming from the same Amazon distribution warehouse in the US. (Their Amazon store is now gone.)
Moral of the story is to ONLY buy bigger ticket items if its shipped from AND sold by Amazon, or if its sold by an “official” brand like AMD etc. And of course, if a deal seems too good to be true - it usually is.
Someone in the warehouse still has to put the lenses in a box though, even though the order says CPU or GPU…