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Some Newegg Customers Received Fake Intel Core i7s
Several readers have mentioned the strange goods that some customers received from Newegg in place of the Intel Core i7 920 processor they ordered. Word on the problem first surfaced on TribalWar on Thursday evening. Newegg still hasn't commented on this. It's not known whether it happened as a result fraud by another Newegg customer, in shipping, or where. The "processors" are made of aluminum, and the "fans" are some kind of synthetic molded material. The "factory seal" was printed onto the box; the holographic stickers on the boxes were also faked. The first part of this video shows the bogus goods. At this writing Google News lists a handful of blogs mentioning the fakes.
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Fire up Excel and open any spreadsheet that has a fair amount of numeric calculation. If results greater than 65535 are shown as "#MANY", then you most likely have one of the fake Intel chips.
...I'm an American and it's my patriotic duty to blame the Chinese.
Guess it's a good thing I opted for a better GFX card instead and went with an i5...
Ah, so you're the one who found it. Sorry about that...
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Sounds a little excessive for "fraud by another Newegg customer." Another customer would at least have had real stickers (from the original box).
In fact it reminds me of a childhood experience. Back when Final Fantasy "II" came out for the SNES, I bought it at Toys R Us. It was shrink-wrapped and everything. When I opened it, instead of a cartridge it had a bolt with a couple nuts screwed on so it would weigh the same as a cartridge. Fortunately, the manager was willing to swap it out for me--but from then on, I always opened my cartridges at the register after paying. Considering the shrinkwrap and the contents of the box, to this day I suspect a factory worker took home a little souveneir... but who knows?
Hopefully Newegg follows through, I'd be interested to know what happened here. At the very least I imagine they will be inspecting their shipments a little more closely for a while. I buy from them all the time, they have a great reputation, and I doubt they are doing to ignore these claims (whether we hear about it or not).
That's freaking uncanny. When I bought A Link to the Past at Toys R Us, I opened the box in the parking lot and found two bolts instead of a cartridge.
Come to think of it, years later I crunched down onto a much smaller bolt in a soft taco at Taco Bell. Is bolt-related crime this common in everyone else's life?
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No, I think your incidences were just isolated incidents of a couple nuts screwing everyone else over.
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This is sooo sweet!
I've been wanting to build a fake computer for quite some time now. It will go perfectly with my fake Italian leather chair and fake wood desk!
once more into the breach
I've been very happy with my purchases there--a Panaphonics TV and Sorny monitor. Shop there with confidence.
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No, it makes perfect sense. Just yesterday, a cashier stopped me and called the police, claiming I was using counterfeit money. "No, no" I said, "I just mistakenly gave you some demo money. Haven't you ever heard of demo money? It looks almost exactly like the real thing, and used for demonstrations." Unfortunately the police didn't believe me either.
Man you nailed that one.
Your story reminds me of a teenage experience. In 1991, I had a small project that required small bolts and nuts, so I bought a few boxes of those at Home Depot. The boxes were shrink-wrapped and everything. When I opened one of the boxes, instead of bolts and nuts it had a few E.T. game cartridges in it so it would weigh the same as bolts and nuts. Fortunately, the manager was willing to swap it out for me--but from then on, I always opened my bolts and nuts boxes at the register after paying. Considering the shrinkwrap and the contents of the box, to this day I suspect Atari was looking for creative ways to get rid of their failed game... but who knows?
And what does the SUB generation use?
Anyone can get a shrink wrap machine
I always figured a good slight-of-hand magician could get away with all kinds of "at the cash register" mischief. No shrink wrap machine required...
"Hey! You just saw me open it, and there was nothing in the box but this rabbit!"
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
My friend bought a Motorola phone which came with a "free" USB cable from ebay. Connecting the phone to his PC didn't work at all. After a certain amount of fooling around, he found the cable did not have any wires in it. It had connectors, but the cable was just made of insulation. My explanation? It was a wireless cable.
Sorry, but gray text on gray background is making my eyes bleed.
They've been using nuclear reactors for sub generation since the '50s.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
In the cases I brought up, someone was out to actively screw the merchant or (sometimes) the manufacturer by deliberately repackaging the wrong merchandise.
Bruce Perens.
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Well fucking played, sir.
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