You win some, you lose some. Amazon Warehouse "Deals"

[IEC]

Found what I thought was a decent deal on a "Like New" MSI X399 SLI Plus motherboard. Well, maybe I have a different expectation for "Like New" than Amazon Warehouse Deals does, because I got a lemon:

Yo dog, I heard you like thermal paste! Here's a bunch all over your "Like New" motherboard!


Splatter on the DIMM slots for good measure...


Surely this is just cosmetic, and I can just wipe this off, right? Wrong. See: bent pin


Yeah, not going to risk a Threadripper CPU on testing this "like new" motherboard. Back she goes.

 

[Mayne]

wow! wtf

 

[lxskllr]

Probably didn't know you weren't supposed to use the whole tube, and was surprised when the board shorted out, and quit working.

 

[Darwin333]

Probably didn't know you weren't supposed to use the whole tube, and was surprised when the board shorted out, and quit working.

I'm kinda hoping that he bent the pin first and that's why it wasn't working/seating properly. Or maybe he realized that he used way to much paste, took it off to clean it and then bent it trying to put it back in.

 

[skull]

Bend the pin back and give it shot doubt itd kill the cpu. My dad makes extra money buying bundles of cpus for scrap gold off ebay straightening the pins and listing them separately. At first he'd test every one of them, at some point when 99.9% of them worked he just said screw it and started shipping them out after straightening the pins.

 

[BUTCH1]

Apparently the person doing returns just looked and saw a complete board and said "good to go!". I doubt they are allotted much time per item for any real evaluation. Probably didn't even know to check the pins on a MB.

 

[rh71]

I know you said Amazon so that's more comforting but I knew I was making the right decision not going with ebay on a used mobo for an old Q6600 cpu thinking the mobo was the culprit. Even for $35. No returns mostly.

I decided to build with new parts instead. Even though it ended up being $300, it's $300 being put to use, with modern hardware, with warranty, instead of $35 potentially out with nothing to show for it.