Subj : Re: Old Iron
To   : Gamgee
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Jan 25 2021 13:44:57

  Re: Re: Old Iron
  By: Gamgee to Tracker1 on Mon Jan 25 2021 01:53 pm

 >> i fucking hate newegg. they send me a trashed computer and made me
 >> pay a fuckload to ship it back.  the damn computer was vandalized.

 Tr>> Never had anything like that happen, though like Amazon, I make
 Tr>> sure it's sold by newegg, since they have 3rd party sellers.

 Ga> Nobody other than 'MRO' has ever had that happen, either.

Years ago, I read a story that a shipment of Intel CPUs to Newegg was apparently intercepted by some people in China and replaced with boxes of fake CPUs, and the boxes were so confincing that Newegg staff didn't notice.  And many customers got those fake CPUs and naturally wanted to return them.

And my understanding is that while Intel manufactures the wafers in the US, they send the wafers to their fabs in China where the CPUs are made from the wafers.

Nightfox

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