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I agree... EVGA needs to make a way possible for customers to identify which cards are stolen or not at a bare minimum.
by camhart 5y ago
I agree... EVGA needs to make a way possible for customers to identify which cards are stolen or not at a bare minimum.
- teawrecks 5y ago"you can also check the serial number at the EVGA Warranty Check page to see if it is affected."
- amatecha 5y agoRight, that's kinda difficult to do when you don't yet have the GPU in your possession. Why don't they post a list of serials of the stolen cards? I assume every shipment contains a list of the serial#s of the devices in the respective shipment?
- camhart 5y agoHow do I do this before I click "buy" off amazon/newegg/ebay/etc?
- mschuster91 5y agoIf I were EVGA, I'd contact eBay to flag all sales of the stolen GPU models, and that providing the serial number is required for the listing to be accepted.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 5y agoeBay has little incentive to comply with that though.
- iamstupidsimple 5y agoIt's literally illegal to knowingly receive or facilitate the sale of stolen goods.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 5y agoExactly, the key word being knowingly.
- theamk 5y agoYou ask seller to confirm the card is not stolen. If the seller lies to you, you get a refund, eBay will side with buyer if seller lied via official communications. If you know about the theft and specifically don’t ask, you are knowingly receive stolen property and deserve whatever penalty EVGA does. (This leaves the question of people who just buy stuff on eBay and have no idea about this news story. It would be nice if marketplaces could show warnings next to certain classes of items, but I am not holding my breath on this)
- kube-system 5y agoI don’t think you have to ask the seller to confirm goods aren’t stolen to be protected under eBay’s policies. Listing stolen goods is a violation of eBay’s policies to begin with. eBay says that following their policies is one of their criteria for a seller meeting their obligations under the buyer protection.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 5y ago> You ask seller to confirm the card is not stolen. If the seller lies to you Do the platforms really expect you to ask the seller first? "Not stolen" seems to be kind of implied when buying products, like "not defective", "not smashed into small pieces", or "not actually a box of rocks".