At least 32 Zotac RTX 5090 buyers at Micro Center find only backpacks inside the boxes

WTF?! Imagine spending an obscene amount of money on an RTX 5090, only to discover the box contains nothing but backpacks. More than 30 people who bought Zotac versions of Nvidia's flagship made this discovery after purchasing the cards from a Micro Center store in Santa Clara. A redditor going by the handle JamesFerg650 posted an image – taken in a car – of his Zotac RTX 5090 box that had been purchased from Micro Center Santa Clara. Other images showed the box opened on a bed, containing nothing but sealed GlamAholic backpacks. The box was returned to Micro Center, naturally. It's easy to imagine the store refusing to hand over another card by claiming this was all an unimaginative ruse to get a free RTX 5090. But staff did give JamesFerg650 his replacement because 31 other people also bought backpack-filled Zotac boxes. It seems whoever swapped the cards for the backpacks made sure the weights were similar – just half a pound difference. In a statement addressing the situation, ... Read full article.