AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB GDDR6 Graphics Card - £566.93 (cheaper with fee-free card) @ Amazon Spain

Don't order expensive goods from Amazon Spain, Amazon Germany, etc. unless you are comfortable with the risk of having effectively No Warranty.

Neither Amazon.es or Amazon.de will assist you with returning faulty goods to them from the UK.

They will not provide a prepaid return label, insisting that you cover the shipping expenses and promise to reimburse you once they receive the item. However, they will never receive it because neither branch will supply you with any of the documents necessary to pass either countries respective customs enforcement.

Spanish customs in particular are an absolute nightmare and never have I encountered such backwards policy. In order for the Spanish customs service to release your parcel they demand the following:

- That you upload a copy of your CN23 export document, and Amazon invoice to the Adtpostales website (which is janky.)

- They will also require you to print, sign, and then scan and upload Import documents.

- Both of these things require you to register as a customer of Adtpostales by creating an account;

- However, you can't register for Adtpostales without a Spanish ID number (NIF/NIE) - which as Brits, we don't have.

- If you are as fortunate as I am to have a Spanish friend who will loan you their ID, then you can register, but then;

- They will require you to upload a Scanned copy of that person's ID, which is a bit extreme.

- And finally, if you manage to jump through all of these hoops, Spanish Customs will then charge you admin fees as well as Import Duty (21% rate) -- Even on Returned Faulty Goods -- Which you will have to try and claim back later.

You may read this and think "that's mental" - but in reality you shouldn't have to do any of this.

Under Spanish Tax Agency regulations, Amazon Spain as the recipient are supposed to be responsible for handling the import of the item (they are sent a letter in the post with instructions on how to release the goods to them.) However, Amazon simply do not give a toss and will not perform any of their legal obligations to release the parcel from customs.

Even if you contact the executive support team via Jeff@amazon.com they will tell you that it's not their problem and send you repeated automated replies stating they can only issue a refund once they receive the item.

If you are lucky enough that the item is low value (below a few hundred pounds) they might write it off -- but they will definitely not write off anything expensive or "ticket" items.

You will have no other option but to raise a chargeback or use Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act and hope the Payment processor sides with you, which will almost certainly result in Amazon banning your account - and they are very good at keeping you banned on alternate accounts using their big data.

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What is the point of buying this when you can have 7900XT for 160£ more?

Would this be a nightmare to return if something went wrong? Anyone have any input?

I am in the process of an RMA for my 4mth old 6900XT with Ebuyer!, it crashed my system many times after a month or so of good operation, then would not display at all. when it worked it was great!

Price dropped from 598.75 to £581.12 (edited)

Worth upgrade from rtx 3080?

Surely it’s better to get one of the 7900xt cards for £750?

I'm glad I bought my 6950xt from Ebuyer. It had horrific (and I do mean *horrific*) coil whine.
The RMA process was very simple with them.

I just got a refund in the end.

Amazon is not a great vendor for GPU - worth to buy from Scan or Ebuyer or a UK retailer with some understanding of the RMA process

How do I make it cheaper with fee free card? Do I literally just add a Starling card and pay with that or?

For the sake of £20 you are much better off buying hotukdeals.com/dea…037


If anything goes wrong you are at least in the same country as eBuyer, who have recently been taken over so returns might(?) have improved, and its a better card.

i think im not buying any GPU this generation. I will skip it.... Overpriced, underperformed...

Now i am risking it, because they could easily do a limited release of next gen and jack prices but keep prices of current and previous gen the same.

I hope Nvidia/AMD reps dont read this comment....

Do you guys think a Ryzen 5700g would bottle neck this card?
Cheers all.

I also bought the 6950XT Red Devil from Ebuyer, very quiet card even at full load, paired with the 5800X3D, I am getting excellent results so cannot knock any deals on the 6950XT in the slightest, I'd get the Red Devil card over the reference card every day of the week

See a lot of people talking about Ebuyer and how their RMA process is great. Say, if you buy from their eBay store would it be the same?

warranty is worthless anyways.... buy on a CC and if it doesnt work, claim under section 75

finally got a refund on mine from Ebuyer, they had sat on it for nearly 2mths, and could not tell me when they were going to send it for repair - threatened them with court and hey presto - dont know what to get now though!