check this out - dude bought a sealed 8500 got a Vivo!

[wvjohn]

http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopi ... 7330914413

[sbp]

This has happened before. Some dude bought a Visiontek GF3 Ti500 and got a Diamond riva tnt2.
http://www.nvnews.net/forum/showthread. ... eadid=2718

[VidmanII]

man , that would suk big league

[Emo]

You guys freaked me out, I had the cashier tonight open the Gf3 Ti box in front of me.

[FuNPoLiCe001]

wow, thats pretty much bullcrap

i cant believe employees would have the balls to re-shrinkwrap used cards that are probably theirs and take the new ones home

that's called stealing

[cman21]

What they should start doing in the future, is have little tags on the video card, and the box, where they have serial numbers in it, and at the cash register, they match the codes together..


Im sure that'd stop SOME of the crap thats going on with this ordeal.

[Jethro Bodine]

I know in Canada it's Christmas rush if ol' Claude and the missus come down from the the forest for supplies, but around here checking tags on vgas at the door would put a serious delay in our checkout lines.

;-)

[b-man1]

something similar happened to me back in the voodoo2 SLI era....i purchased a new, sealed in the box v2 card...opened it and noticed alot of dust, fingerprints, and scratches all over the connectors and PCB. i took it back immediately (within 30 mins of buying it) and got an exchange. they gave me evil looks like i was trying to screw them by swapping an old one, but luckily i got an exchange. i would've been quite upset (i was to begin with...) if i had been called a liar for spending $200 on it or whatever and then getting screwed because some dishonest cheap @ss liar swapped them. grrr.