You may have seen a previous post of mine stating that I was on an adventure to purchase a Graphics Card using only Crypto and zero fiat. Well I am happy to say that this story has a happy ending. There was a few hiccups along the way but nothing I couldn't work through.
Let's start from the beginning. Shopping.io is a website that is a 3rd party shopper (aggregator). You tell them what to buy from Amazon, eBay or Walmart and you pay them in crypto for it. Then they go out and buy it and ship it to you. It's pretty straightforward.
I originally was trying to purchase a MSI GeForce GTX 1050 TI 4GB Graphics Card on eBay. Turns out that they took about 48 hours to try to purchase the item and by that time it was already sold out. So they messaged me telling me that and asking if I wanted a refund or to purchase something else.
So I sent them a link to a ASUS GeForce GTX 1050 TI 4GB. It was a few bucks cheaper but the same Graphics Card. They told me okay and then a day later told me that it too was sold out. Rinse and Repeat.
The 3rd card I sent them to buy was a Gigabyte GeForce GTC 1050 TI 4GB. They responded within an hour stating it was purchased and gave me my tracking number. That was Saturday. The tracking number stated that it was going to arrive Tuesday (today).
Well wouldn't you know that I was pleasantly surprised when this bad boy showed up yesterday (Monday).
See I know what your thinking. "Wait TPL, that is an ASUS Graphics Card NOT the Gigabyte one that you got a tracking number for..". And I am with you 100% I was so confused when it arrived a day early by my counts. But I wasn't going to complain so I opened it and fired it up in my computer. And it works like a charm!
Here she is unboxed and looking sexy as hell.
Here she is installed in my computer. I know, I know, I need to clean my PC. I did when I was installing her.
To all those who care here is my PC Specs
Intel Core i7 930 QC 3.36GHz
24GB RAM
2 x 500 SSD's
GeForce GTX 1050TI 4GB
2 x 22' HP Monitors
Windows 10 Pro
All of that to say is that I can honestly say that Shopping.io is a real site and not some scam. If you want to purchase your own physical items with your crypto then I would HIGHLY recommend Shopping.io.
I would also pick something that isn't a hot commodity like a graphics card because you will run into the issues I had.
Oh and would you look what just came in the mail 20 minutes ago?? I got a free $350 Graphics Card so I highly recommend Shopping.io lmfao
