People not registering EVGA 480 Cards?

What is up with that?

Been seeing a number of posted second hand cards for sale. With the exception of a very small few I've been seeing a few (5-6) unregistered EVGA cards.

Been toying with the idea of scoring a cheap second hand 470 card or just replacing my current 470 GTX with a 480. Regardless, how can you spend so much on a 480 and not bother to register it to get your warranty? And how can anyone justify selling it to someone else without warranty? The 5870 sales are much cheaper by the way and that's all I'll say about the second hand 480 prices.

Anyway is there some type of trick where if you don't register you get their bestest premiumest warranty that I don't know about?

martinmsj said:

And how can anyone justify selling it to someone else without warranty?

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There is no warranty. You cannot transfer EVGA warranties to a buyer when you sell your card.

Spare-Flair said:

There is no warranty. You cannot transfer EVGA warranties to a buyer when you sell your card.

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There is still warranty through the original buyer if they agree to help. Second, the issue I'm grasping at is, "if you bought a 480 GTX why didn't your register it for the warranty?" What I don't understand here is not EVGA's warranty is more why someone would spend 400+ and choose not to have one.

(Thought that was pretty clear in my post. Unless you're one of the sellers )

Actually, I think that any of the following apply:

a) They bought the card second hand and thus can't give you the original purchasers info.
b) They don't want to help you deal with an RMA if it needs to happen, ie they sold it and are done with it.
c) They modified the card and voided the warranty and aren't telling you.
d) They are just stupid?

Honestly, to spend $400-500 for a video card (or anything for that matter) and not register it for warranty makes no sense. Unless all the kiddies really don't care because mommy and daddy bought them the card and they didn't have to work for the money to purchase it in the first place.

This is the frustrating thing about looking at a used 480, and from my understanding, Gigabyte and Asus do not need a receipt to do an RMA, which is a little less frustrating. However I hear people saying their RMA services take up to a month. I'm not too sure about MSI, Galaxy etc. I do know from having EVGA in the past, if you do not register it within 30 days, you only get a year warranty to to original buyer.

dont you still get a two year warranty if you don't register. I think registeration only gets you lifetime warranty on some products, and the products with a 2 year warranty are reduced to one year if you don't register. I don't buy evga anymore because I upgrade my graphic card alot and I like to just sell it without having to worry about warranty for the second buyer.

OH by the way I really don't buy that taking a month for replacement. Asus, Msi and Gigabyte Guarantee like a 3-5 business day turaround time.

I really dont think some people care about registering, I mean they probably dont even keep their card for a year and upgrade like every refresh. By the way why does it matter if someone registers their card or not, its their card they can do what they want with it lol.

Asus simply uses the cards serial number to find out if its within warranty (within 3 years of manufacture). I bought a used Asus card last year, and it gave out in 2 months (fan on heatsink seized up). All I did was send it in (with their authorization) and got a new one. It all took about 3 weeks. No registration, no receipt or anything required.

Personally, I don't know why people dislike this type of warranty style. Lifetime is nice, but has way to many stipulations associated with it, and absolutely kills all real world resale value.

Only the original purchaser gets warranty with EVGA, and if not registered in 30 days it's a 1 year standard. If you're buying second hand and care about warranty, with the nVidia camp now you should just buy ASUS cards as they go by manufacture date.