Gadgetory

so here I am doing research for an upcoming review on a graphics card and I was looking at the ranking system on Amazon and four of the top five cards looked absolutely fine and in fact some of them are really good deals at the moment but one of these cards in the top five just stood out like a sore thumb this was a graphics card that should not be in the top five selling cards especially at its given price point of fifty five US dollars now this is the GT 710 which was a GPU released in early 2016 making it now well over three years old and the worst thing about this card is it's got horrible performance in fact the performance is so bad on this graphics card that it is worse than a Pentium when it comes to using it for its graphics performance that's right a dedicated solution for graphics is performing worse than a budget CPU but that said let's take a deeper dive into this topic and see what actually is going on anyway looking further into what I believe is a scam or at least a ranking scam on Amazon it sort of ties in with the recent video I did on eBay where we had a seller asking over three hundred US dollars for a gaming PC that couldn't even play games at least modern games properly at all if you guys haven't seen that video I'll put the link up here but in that comment section a few of you guys were telling me that you think this guy is ranking the PC up because that PC was the number one search term when you typed in gaming PC what was theorized and I don't have proof of this because I haven't tried it was that the seller and a other party are simply buying a lot of these PCs in a short period of time and then somehow canceling the purchases but in that process ranking up their PC or their item to the top how exactly this works is the seller has their product for sale they have a lot of stock in quantity and then they get the third party seller in this case we'll call them person why and they then buy 500 units at the asking price that then goes through and pushes this graphics card to the top of the list because so many units are being sold person why then after a few days cancels their order but in the meantime this product is ranked so high in the listing that the damage has already been done at least from what I can see and gather and what I hear from you guys and feedbacks and what I read in articles this is what is going on so if we now relate this back to our GT 710 we can see that something is awfully wrong here the card of course is terrible value terrible performance but it's standing out it's actually if you type in graphics card it is coming up on the first page and now I did test this in a different browser so it wasn't anything to do with my cookies or cache that's stored in that browser and then believe it or not yes it was still showing up on the first page which I do believe this card is somehow artificially being pumped through the ranking system up to the top that is done by perhaps a seller and a third party then buying this graphics card in mass and somehow pumping up the ranking system artificially to where it can deceive people and make them think that are indeed buying a popular graphics card that is being purchased at a good price when in fact it's just horrible value period so now Amazon in the u.s. is the most popular online retailer in different countries like Australia for example eBay is actually the most popular retailer so somehow getting your items up the top of the ranking system is beneficial for a seller though doing it in a non legit way and deceiving people is completely wrong in my opinion and there should be something done to stop these sellers and now first of all there are some people that do comment and make a valid point though that is if someone is foolish enough to waste their money on something like this then they deserve to lose their money and my counter-argument to that is is that some people don't even know much about tech but they're getting deceived and it's that deception that I really dislike and so by doing videos like these I want to help people in the tech community and then they can help other people and make people aware of what is going on and that is you shouldn't trust in this case the ranking systems as I believe they're partially broken and if anything if you are buying something that you're not familiar with then comments sections are always a great way to get feedback I know if you guys ask the comment in this comment session you'll get an honest reply pretty much instantly from the awesome viewers around here so for example I had a university student who wanted to buy a PC off me this morning and she asked me if the PC would be good for Adobe am I reply to her was in my experience you do want a bit more memory than what this system has for Adobe so I do recommend going with something better so I didn't recommend her this PC but I'm sure there would be some sellers out there who would say yeah it's absolutely fine coming by this thing I don't care I just want the money and in turn I believe that's just bad kamar it will come back to bite you sooner or later but another reason that I do what I do is because I treat others how I want to be treated so if I went to this university student in the future and she has a profession in X Y Z and I asked her advice I would really appreciate it if I got that honest advice in return but anyway moving on from why I hate deception and back to the Amazon ranking system in this case the GT 710 horrible graphics performance for the money at fifty five US dollars not only that if you do want something like this that can go in a single slot but you can then buy something off Aliexpress it'll be much cheaper you get a gtx 750ti that shipped to your door for 50 US dollars has much better performance and of course will have more display options than this GT 710 and even then if you do want this specific gravis card which I don't even know why you would want it since the GT 710 will suffer the same problems a lot of the times that a lot of gtx 750 s in budget graphics cards will suffer and that is that they won't work with some of these older OEMs which i'm sure there would be people out there that would just want to turn a pc into a home theater pc for very cheap but even then your $55 is much better spent if you want to go brand new for a whole PC you've got the rise in 2200 G 87 bucks will have literally like 10 times the performance of this GT 710 featured in this video and there are honestly just so many other options out there I'll put some links in the description below if you need a budget graphics card solution instead of this ripoff that I'm talking about here but on the other hand there is another possibility and that's what I'm gonna ask you guys for your opinion on could this be legit I mean perhaps there is a seller out there like the eBay seller in the previous video that we did that is buying up a whole heap of these PCs in preparation of the next round of eBay gaming pcs with RGB LED lights plastered throughout the build I'm just not entirely sure of the exact workings but after seeing the eBay gaming PC and now this GT 710 ranking so high in the system on both eBay and Amazon I am becoming very skeptical of these sellers and just exactly how they're pushing their products up to the top of the list because I refuse to believe that these sellers are getting their product to the top of the list in a non deceptive honest way anyway guys if you enjoyed this video then be sure to hit that like button also let us know in the comments section below do you think I'm right on the money in saying that these things are ranking scams or is something different going on altogether love reading your thoughts and opinions as always but if anything 2019 I just I am seeing a few more scams pop up here and there and everywhere I mean Greg from science studio a good friend of mine he did a video on a hype drop scam I'll put the link in the description for that where apparently they're selling these boxes and they're marketing all these cool products you can win but really in the chances are you're just gonna get sticker I mean if you guys want to see me have a go at this and see how much of a joke it is then I could give it a crack for you guys with that said I'll catch you in another tech video very soon if you want to check us out on social media get the inside scoop before it even hits YouTube then I'll put my socials in the description below like ends to Facebook and Twitter and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye you