How does ATI's card trade up program work exactly?

[Tab]

Has anyone done it before? How your experince? Can you use a card not made by ATI? I have a ATI 8500 64MB, if I traded it in for a ATI 9700 how much of a discount would I get?

 

[cmdrdredd]

it's all listed on their site. Basically you trade in an old card and get like a $50 credit toward the new one. Considering you're paying MSRP it's better to sell your card for $50 and order from newegg.com or something

 

[Brian48]

ATI's trade up program has always been a rip off. They only accept certain cards in the program so it's not like you can just turn in a S3 Virge and get $xxx amount off of whatever retail price is assigned to the new card. Also, as mentioned above, you can the find the same card on pricewatch at a better price without a discount and you don't wind up loosing your old card (which can be sold off or moved into another system).

 

[nRollo]

1. Drop pants
2. Bend over, grab ankles
3. Hope that the ATI rep has some Arctic Silver Thermal Grease, and feels like using it.


$50 off MSRP! Woohoo!

 

[IdBuRnS]

LMAO

 

[ScrewFace]

Are you telling me that they'd only give me $50 for my GeForce4-Ti4400? Forget about it!:disgust:

 

[nRollo]

"Forget about it!"
You mean: "Fuhgeddaboutit!"

 

[lazy232]

I have an old 8 meg pci rage pro card. If they gave me 50 for that on a modern cad, that would be a good deal.
Does it really work that way?

 

[nRollo]

"Does it really work that way? "
Fugeddaboutit!
Dude, you can buy the card cheaper online even after the $50 comes off.
ATI: $399- $50= $349 + shipping
Pricewatch/Extremegear: $324 shipped

Like I said:
Bend over, grab ankles.