So people are paying for what are essentially broken, burned up cards? If they're $25 i can understand, but if a card can't mine, that's destroyed a huge portion of its ability to do anything useful...Quote:
Originally Posted by Cortexian
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So people are paying for what are essentially broken, burned up cards? If they're $25 i can understand, but if a card can't mine, that's destroyed a huge portion of its ability to do anything useful...Quote:
Originally Posted by Cortexian
No, we're essentially "binning" them ourselves. We're not using them till they burn up and tossing them, we test every one extensively before putting it into service. If it's a lemon unit and doesn't mine well that doesn't mean it won't game well and operate fine. If we find any legitimately broken cards they get RMA'd.
Bitcoin mining is not kind to gaming cards. But w/e. You guys better sell with a 90-day warranty when you sell them or something.
freelancer hacked gox :allears:
They're resold with full warranty as they were not given to customers and were used "In-Store". Being a large hardware retailer gives us some leeway with supplier and manufacturer RMA and warranty stuff. By the time we've determined a card isn't "for us" it has only been mining for less than 8 hours.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwood
I used a Black Lotus card.Quote:
Originally Posted by InnerGoat
Well, if they're sold at a reduced price with a disclaimer, I guess it's fine. I know of some retailers that do similar things with CPUs; they stress-test them all and keep the best performers for their own prebuilts, selling the rest off as new. I'd never buy from such a company.
Yeah, i'd never buy from a company like Lancer's if I knew about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Btcc22
All the cards we're selling get competitive benchmark scores and FPS with any other similar cards, mining performance doesn't always mean good gaming performance.
Plus these are sold with full warranty. So you wouldn't buy a card from us, for cheaper than normal, knowing it's fully covered and essentially tested and guaranteed to game? Your loss I guess. Have fun paying more for nothing (unless you want to mine, then you gotta pay more).
I think we stopped reselling them anyway. It takes longer to sell them and put that credit towards new cards than it does to just RMA them. So there's no worry either way anymore. None that we've sold have come back or had any complaints.
I said it's fine if they're reduced and have a disclaimer otherwise no, I wouldn't buy from your employer. It's a sleazy thing to do, especially RMAing cards that according to you have nothing wrong with them. Good way to make everybody else pay for your employer's greed.
Your post was probably aimed at Dwood but replied anyway.
That sounds fair considering full warranty and everything. Better than refurb cards at least. The real question is when are you going to switch out that obsolete AMD hardware with a bunch of 750 ti? :realsmug: