GTX260 216 SC for $120

Essenar said:

There *IS* forgiveness. Corsair replaced a PSU for a guy who rubbed it on his carpet before putting it in his PC, who complained that it blew. That's INTENTIONAL damage and they replaced it free of charge.

Return policies on TV's, Blu-ray players and projectors don't have restocking fee, despite the fact that many people buy them for "the Big Game" and then return them afterward.

I see 10-15 returns a day from people who bought the wrong product, didn't LIKE what they bought, weren't happy with how much it cost. The only time we charge restocking fees is when it's a camera or a computer. And why not? We lose money on those products when we sell them at regular price. How much do you think we make when we sell them open box?

Retail companies are constantly taking losses just so the customer walks away happy. But that's not enough? They have to take 15,000 dollar hits during a dark economy or they get slammed by BBB?

I'm not saying YOU guys are wrong and I'm not spitting "vitriol" at you. What IS wrong is to expect some kind of extra compensation for a pricing mistake. Things like this happen and it's really a mistake, but you guys are crying witch and trying to get a free videocard at the cost of someone's job. It's disgusting and I hope you don't have to go through the same tragedy of getting fired over a mistake at your job because someone wanted to take advantage of your errors to get a free sandwich or coupon or discount.

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Mustanley said:

Well, better to laugh about it than to get upset, that's for sure. They've already been shipped so I'll just deal with it when they arrive. Hopefully I don't loose any money on this fiasco.
I was really hoping to replace the the 4 8800GTs I've got folding with some GTX 260s.

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Rattle said:

funny though, i called both amazon and TD and they blame each other lmao. they both said refunding should only take like 5-7 days combined. Both return labels in my inbox, so whatever. Makes me weary of buying from either of them ever again to be honest, at least it costs me nothing.

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burningcpu said:

"Things like this happen and it's really a mistake, but you guys are crying witch and trying to get a free videocard at the cost of someone's job. It's disgusting and I hope you don't have to go through the same tragedy of getting fired over a mistake at your job because someone wanted to take advantage of your errors to get a free sandwich or coupon or discount."

That is throwing vitriol by insinuating that we are crying babies. Exactly what I was warning you not to do, because I knew someone would say something insulting in response to my post.

Thanks for being that person, Essener.

FYI, i didn't order one of these cards.

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Rattle said:

in the end it was too good to be true.

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burningcpu said:

Wow, don't tell me to grow up just because we don't agree.

We agree fundamentally, but I think some of you guys are just going too easy on Amazon. They could have closed this thing out at any time, but elected instead to collect a ton of orders, and to only correct the problem after the fact.

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jamesman32 said:

Essenar you make a very good point. Everyone of us that tried to take advantage of this "deal", if I may call it that, deserves what we got. We were greedy. We just wanted a good price on a good card, and we wanted to take advantage of whatever reason there was for the price being so low. We had the nerve to then get mad and proceed to take stabs at TD and Amazon and submit rude letters to them, for making a simple mistake. So what if you receive the wrong product? Shouldn't the price and fluctuating description on the page have tipped us off? Shouldn't we have been a bit more wary of what might happen? We need to stop bitching about it, and just send the products back. It's nobodies fault but our own, so we shan't put the blame on these companies. Image if it was you who made the pricing error and then your company received all of these complaints. You would be fired so quick your head would probably spin clean off. IMO, we deserved what we got, so don't blame this on TD or Amazon, blame it on your greedy self

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Pinky said:

And because there's no punishment for them in place, they can sit on the money for days or weeks until they refund. They may even get a few idiots to buy it at the regular price. The gains from this should outweigh the PR and customer service costs to process the refunds.

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burningcpu said:

"Things like this happen and it's really a mistake, but you guys are crying witch and trying to get a free videocard at the cost of someone's job. It's disgusting and I hope you don't have to go through the same tragedy of getting fired over a mistake at your job because someone wanted to take advantage of your errors to get a free sandwich or coupon or discount."

That is throwing vitriol by insinuating that we are crying babies. Exactly what I was warning you not to do, because I knew someone would say something insulting in response to my post.

Thanks for being that person, Essener.

FYI, i didn't order one of these cards.

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Rattle said:

funny though, i called both amazon and TD and they blame each other lmao. they both said refunding should only take like 5-7 days combined. Both return labels in my inbox, so whatever. Makes me weary of buying from either of them ever again to be honest, at least it costs me nothing.

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JonSimonzi said:

This forum has more mature responses than the EVGA forum though, which is why I love it here. Over there they're all getting pitchforks and torches and being all "lets stick together and file a class action lawsuit!!"

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