News EVGA's Stolen GPU Haul Turns Up in Vietnam

[Admin]

The missing haul of EVGA graphics cards, stolen last October, has reportedly been sold to customers in Vietnam by a major PC retailer in the country. PC DIYers were drawn to the low prices, but EVGA has locked out these cards from warranty, service, and upgrades.

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[richard_mp]

Lets see. Lower than usual prices and one month warranty.

Pretty sure they got them cheap and knew they were stolen.


Now they might not have known the when and where but there is no way they purchased them below market and thought the cards were legitimate.

 

[JamesJones44]

Cool! Lets continue move all our manufacturing there so they don't have to ship the product back over seas! It's even better for the environment too, less fuel!

 

[Makaveli]

For sure they bought these "hot" and knew it. I hope EVGA has the power to do something about this in Vietnam.

 

[Exploding PSU]

You know what, that white GPU in the rightmost PC looks mighty fine

 

[SkyBill40]

Gooooooooooooooooooood Morning, Vietnam! LOL

 

[Darkbreeze]

And WHY is it that there are not already sanctions in place against that "major PC vendor" by EVGA and other tech manufacturers, since clearly they care nothing about the losses incurred by these companies due to criminal enterprises like this?

EVERY single supplier should boycott that company and refuse to ship them anything until they return every identified stolen component. This is exactly the same as companies that sell "grey" software licenses. When you don't insist on crap being legit it just makes it simple for this kind of crap to continue and that ends up costing US all a lot more, because these companies don't just "write it off". They just raise prices for legitimate purchasers like us. Heck that.

 

[cats_Paw]

10 bucks says they used the GPU for minning etherum and are now trying to dump them after the drop in etherum profitability.

 

[nogaard777]

Sucks that this happened to evga as they're the last somewhat honest AIB left it seems. Not that all aibs aren't making money hand over fist right now.

Would be nice to see some unity in boycotting this specific outlet from allocation of all hardware from all vendors, but that will never happen as they're all perfectly happy shipping pallets of cards directly to mining outfits without even giving gamers a chance at them.