Pains me to see these BFG threads, probably my favourite company out there.
Their downfall was their massive 10 year guarantee, I know this because I went from a BFG 8800GT to a BFG 295 GTX in the space of about a month, free of charge. My 8800 died so I set up an RMA with BFG, registered the card and myself etc. and sent the card out to be fixed. What I got back was a faulty BFG 9800 so I contacted them again and a guy called Jeff Kozlowski got in touch with me (I think he used these forums too) and started apologising that i've been sent a faulty replacement card so he sent me a brand new BFG 260 from the US. I was chuffed and all was well till after about a week after installing it artifacts started popping up everywhere, e-mailed Jeff again and he said to get in contact with the UK branch that does the RMA's. Gave them a ring, turn out they were based in Wales and I got in touch with a guy called Phil Adams. Absolutely sound bloke, again he apologised and as a goodwill gesture he'd send me out a BFG 295!
I somehow feel a part of their downfall, I literally went form a £80 card to something about x10 times as powerful which was worth (around 2 years ago) around £300-£350.
I did get a lot of faults though, but I still can't blame them for their outstanding RMA service and turnover time, was absolutely gutted when they went bust.