mobos for $20 at mwave/socal walk in

[OS]

city of industry, you walk into their will call office thing and there's a stack of assorted as-is motherboards. 7 day warranty against defects the sign says. Mostly socket A stuff for both SDRAM and DDR. Saw Abit, gigabyte, asus and shuttle boards.

 

[bockchow]

nice, go there and get a bord then go to buyextremegear and geta case. isn't newegg in that same area?

 

[bockchow]

yep buyextreme is under 6 miles from newegg. man liveing in oregon sucks.

 

[dc]

no walk ins/will call for newegg

 

[ams30gts]

i think there is like a $5 fee for will call at mwave

 

[Dragnov]

Originally posted by: ams30gts
i think there is like a $5 fee for will call at mwave

There is, but are they charging it for even the those products? :| Imma go check it out though.. might as well...

 

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: bockchow
yep buyextreme is under 6 miles from newegg. man liveing in oregon sucks.

no walk ins for buyextreme either....i live down in San Diego, but these bastards want to carge me $70 to ship 4 cases, i tell them, look id rather spend the 1 1/2 to drive my ass up there to get them, they say no can do, company policy. i then order online and ask for discount shipping to sd and they cancel my order.

 

[larciel]

this has been around for about 20 days now..

when i went there, there was STACKS of, (i mean STACKS)

-Asus-
a7v
a7v133
a.. something w/ ALI chip
and a7n266 (nforce 420 board) , which i took

-Abit-
KR7A-RAID. (about 10 or more)

-Gigabyte-
7gxdr.. amd760 chipset w/ raid..
pentium 4 board

-msi-
bunch of KT133A and one i845 chip board, KM133 board

-shuttle-
AK31 series.. ver2.0, etc


when i went there again 5 days ago, there was only numbers of board that no body wanted...

 

[Tung]

nice i need a cheapie mb.. thanks

 

[manly]

larciel,

So nothing good is left then?

 

[OS]

Originally posted by: manly
larciel,

So nothing good is left then?

I was just there today, there was still a whole shelf full of motherboards.

 

[ReiAyanami]

heh, thats a cheap way to put together a QC team. free!

 

[Tol]

Unless they've changed their policies on that stuff in the will-call area, there is no handling charge and payment is cash-only.

 

[OS]

Originally posted by: ReiAyanami
heh, thats a cheap way to put together a QC team. free!

well I asked them and they said they're boards that are RMA returns, so they don't come with all the accessories and stuff.

 

[jrichrds]

So basically, you're doing the RMA testing for them. If it works, you get to keep it in exchange for $20.

 

[OS]

Originally posted by: jrichrds
So basically, you're doing the RMA testing for them. If it works, you get to keep it in exchange for $20.

The woman I asked said they were all tested and they work.

I'm not too clear what she meant when said RMA tho, cause the board manufacturers have RMAs too and resellers get back "RMA" boards, which is what I thought she meant, but you bring up a good point.

I dunno, I've read other posts where people buy boards that work fine from that stack. That's how I found out myself.

 

[odoe]

I love MWave. For the amount of money I spend there, the $5 will-call is worth it. Haven't been there in a month or so. Time to make a purchase.

 

[larciel]

i was told i have 7 day warranty and board was tested and all

my board is not booting up

and the other guy i met in the store couple days ago, brought his mobo, and told the lady, it fried his CPU... all they did was exchange to same one.

*as for the stack of mobos... maybe they re-stocked the 'bad' ones that was returned by US!

i'm going there and see if they recycled them or not.

 

[erikiksaz]

Originally posted by: larciel




and the other guy i met in the store couple days ago, brought his mobo, and told the lady, it fried his CPU... all they did was exchange to same one.

.

Hmm, can a motherboard even fry a cpu? I've never had it happen so i don't know...

 

[Zepper]

Yeah, mobo can fry cpu if regulator dies in short condition rather than open or if voltage jumpers not set right. Probably other conditions can cause but can't think of right now.
.bh.
:Q