Subj : Re: Old Iron
To   : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Mon Jan 25 2021 20:33:00

-=> Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

 >> 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.

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

Wow, that would really suck.  Not quite the same thing as what MRO was 
claiming, though.  I doubt what he said is true.

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

Probably right, and no surprise, unfortunately.


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