Beware of EVGA GPU's selling for "good prices"

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Krenum said:
I don't believe I have mine, but I have my mother's Blockbuster card. It would be interesting to see if it still came up in the system of the last Blockbuster location.
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Man when I worked at Software Etc. I could track my Duke Nukem Forever preorder in the system the entire time and that was like 6 years after the preorder was taken. I didn't get a call when it finally came out because I had a different number but I was at an EBGames after it did release and I did something that resulted them pulling my old phone number and they were like.....umm...you have a $20 credit in the system still. Surprised Pikachu face ensued.
 
[Spectre] said:
Man when I worked at Software Etc. I could track my Duke Nukem Forever preorder in the system the entire time and that was like 6 years after the preorder was taken. I didn't get a call when it finally came out because I had a different number but I was at an EBGames after it did release and I did something that resulted them pulling my old phone number and they were like.....umm...you have a $20 credit in the system still. Surprised Pikachu face ensued.
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I don't remember any of those stores still being open by the time DNF actually went gold.
 
alxlwson said:
I don't remember any of those stores still being open by the time DNF actually went gold.
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Software Etc was long gone, I worked the transition to Electronics Boutique. The last EBGames branded store is actually not slated to convert to Gamestop until the end of this year.

Edit: Here is their 2011 SEC 10-K still branding stores as EB Games https://gamestop.gcs-web.com/node/11111/html as well when DNF released.
 
[Spectre] said:
Man when I worked at Software Etc. I could track my Duke Nukem Forever preorder in the system the entire time and that was like 6 years after the preorder was taken. I didn't get a call when it finally came out because I had a different number but I was at an EBGames after it did release and I did something that resulted them pulling my old phone number and they were like.....umm...you have a $20 credit in the system still. Surprised Pikachu face ensued.
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Software Ect....The memories! That store was awesome! I bought my Geforce 2 GTS there.
 
Krenum said:
Software Ect....The memories! That store was awesome! I bought my Geforce 2 GTS there.
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Haha! Yeah, those were the days. We still had VooDoo and surprisingly I sold a lot of Kyro II's, VooDoo 4's, and we stocked still Matrox in addition to NVIDIA and Radeon lines. It was an awesome time. It was so weird to have a PCI and and AGP version of cards on the shelf and then get the RETURNS that had not fit in the slot..............
 
Krenum said:
I don't believe I have mine, but I have my mother's Blockbuster card. It would be interesting to see if it still came up in the system of the last Blockbuster location.
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From memory and it’s fairly hazy when I clicked a blockbuster card if you hadn’t been loaded into our store database it pulled from somewhere else.

My memory is super hazy though.

The computers were all command line based until the at least 2007/2008.
 
These are all going straight in someones mining rig and will show on the second hand market in a few years if even ever. The cost is already paid for. In a way I'd hope for more of this. If boosting trucks worth of GPUs becomes the trend to fund mining operations maybe something will be done about it. Crypto is already largely used to fund criminal functions anyways
 
Comixbooks said:
Maybe someone will register the card with EVGA and they will catch them.
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I doubt that's going to happen. The real use of crypto currency has always been money laundering, blackmail/extortion, dodging taxes, sneaking money out of the country, drugs, child porn, and all sorts of other criminal items. It's also been involved in government financing criminal activity and some criminal rings have set up their own mining farms. Even many legit mining operations rely on bribing their way past regulations on pollution and other issues or to get stolen power (or the bills fudged) to exist. The whole thing is a mess.

Odds are these cards are going straight to some shady crypto operation (if an operation wasn't the ones who stole them to start with) and will be used there and disposed of. I don't think we are going to know where they ever were unless this keeps happening and it turns out some crazy ring of crypto criminals get caught with loads and loads of cards after a fed sting.
 
In a perfect world, you should have to register your card serial number in order to withdrawl / trade or use crypto funds & services.
 
SOAREVERSOR said:
These are all going straight in someones mining rig and will show on the second hand market in a few years if even ever. The cost is already paid for. In a way I'd hope for more of this. If boosting trucks worth of GPUs becomes the trend to fund mining operations maybe something will be done about it. Crypto is already largely used to fund criminal functions anyways
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Did you know... USD is used for this by far and away more than crypto? Time to ban the USD!
 
SOAREVERSOR said:
I doubt that's going to happen. The real use of crypto currency has always been money laundering, blackmail/extortion, dodging taxes, sneaking money out of the country, drugs, child porn, and all sorts of other criminal items. It's also been involved in government financing criminal activity and some criminal rings have set up their own mining farms. Even many legit mining operations rely on bribing their way past regulations on pollution and other issues or to get stolen power (or the bills fudged) to exist. The whole thing is a mess.

Odds are these cards are going straight to some shady crypto operation (if an operation wasn't the ones who stole them to start with) and will be used there and disposed of. I don't think we are going to know where they ever were unless this keeps happening and it turns out some crazy ring of crypto criminals get caught with loads and loads of cards after a fed sting.
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You're woefully misinformed.
 
SOAREVERSOR said:
I doubt that's going to happen. The real use of crypto currency has always been money laundering, blackmail/extortion, dodging taxes, sneaking money out of the country, drugs, child porn, and all sorts of other criminal items. It's also been involved in government financing criminal activity and some criminal rings have set up their own mining farms. Even many legit mining operations rely on bribing their way past regulations on pollution and other issues or to get stolen power (or the bills fudged) to exist. The whole thing is a mess.

Odds are these cards are going straight to some shady crypto operation (if an operation wasn't the ones who stole them to start with) and will be used there and disposed of. I don't think we are going to know where they ever were unless this keeps happening and it turns out some crazy ring of crypto criminals get caught with loads and loads of cards after a fed sting.
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And cars have ever only been used to traffic drugs, and guns are only used for murdering good people, and the stock market is only for use by rich people (ok that one might be true) and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. Any "thing" can be used for nefarious purposes... does that mean we should throw the baby out with the bath water?
 
rewted said:
And cars have ever only been used to traffic drugs, and guns are only used for murdering good people, and the stock market is only for use by rich people (ok that one might be true) and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. Any "thing" can be used for nefarious purposes... does that mean we should throw the baby out with the bath water?
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Crypto is notoriously bad and also doing insane damage due to the all the fuel it's burning. It's not good at all. Slightly above meth dealer.
 
SOAREVERSOR said:
Crypto is notoriously bad and also doing insane damage due to the all the fuel it's burning. It's not good at all. Slightly above meth dealer.
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I'd imagine all the pollution from the coal power plants and unchecked smog from other sources, along with actual fossil fuel from cars is doing far more damage than crypto.
 
rewted said:
I'd imagine all the pollution from the coal power plants and unchecked smog from other sources, along with actual fossil fuel from cars is doing far more damage than crypto.
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Well the coal fired power plants supply lots of the power for those crypto mines...
 
Furious_Styles said:
Well the coal fired power plants supply lots of the power for those crypto mines...
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Right.. but "because of crypto" is wholly inaccurate. Those coal plants existed prior to crypto and have been damaging the environment long before crypto came along.
 
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It's the same way people feel about smokers being bad people yet they never looked behide themselfs and seen Man kind's smoke stacks that seem ok ..
 
SOAREVERSOR said:
Crypto is notoriously bad and also doing insane damage due to the all the fuel it's burning. It's not good at all. Slightly above meth dealer.
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Not even remotely close. While mining isn’t great for the environment it really doesn’t matter in the long run. The problem is, and has always been, companies that pump pollution into the air, ground, and water. Every single ad telling you to “do your part” for the planet has been lying to you. If you care about damage to the planet, work to elect politicians with the balls to go after the people that are really causing the damage.
 
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