I was shopping for this same CPU last week and found an Amazon third-party store named something like “Big Tech Deals WE RECORD SERIAL NUMBERS”.

If you have to name your store that, it’s obviously an unsolved problem in the marketplace.

It was sold by Amazon itself rather than a third-party seller, which is often the case with these sorts of fake items.

The fact that the packaging was sealed and the CPU was unused suggests that this was not one of those instances in which someone bought an item and replaced it with a fake before sending it back for a refund.

co-mingled inventory strikes again.