Fake i7-920s sort by 'recently-layed-egg'

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Saw this earlier.

To be honest it's very funny, it's clearly an alternative version that somehow got bunged in with the real ones. I don't think anybody will be ripped off though.
 
Clearly ***egg have been the victims of mass-scale fraud. I guess it happens...

What really irritates me though, is that for some reason they don't seem to want to admit this. Their representatives have called them "demo units".

Demo units? Do they think that their customers are complete morons? Or that intel would produce "demo" CPUs made of crudely fashioned metal, with a crappy foam heatsink and glued-on sticker fan, all packaged in a box full of spelling mistakes?!



edit - here is a picture. Demo units... yeah :rolleyes:

 
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I wouldn't blame newegg too much, they have said now that they are fakes and have terminated their deal with their supplier who made up the whole 'demo units' thing.

Did you even read the article duff-man? :D

"Initial information we received from our supplier, IPEX, stated that they had mistakenly shipped us 'demo units'," a statement issued Monday evening read. "We have since come to discover the CPUs were counterfeit and are terminating our relationship with this supplier."
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Wicksta said:
I wouldn't blame newegg too much, they have said now that they are fakes and have terminated their deal with their supplier who made up the whole 'demo units' thing.

Did you even read the article duff-man? :D
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No, but I followed the original forum post where the guy showed the fake i7-920, and the ***egg rep came on to try to tell everyone that it was a demo unit. Only after enough people pointed out how utterly retarded an explanation this was did they actually relent, and admit they had been the victims of fraud.
 
Duff-Man said:
No, but I followed the original forum post where the guy showed the fake i7-920, and the ***egg rep came on to try to tell everyone that it was a demo unit. Only after enough people pointed out how utterly retarded an explanation this was did they actually relent, and admit they had been the victims of fraud.
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Well I'm guessing that's because they had been told that by the supplier at the time. I don't really see what else they could have said? The fact they have named the supplier along with this story says to me it is true - they would be sued otherwise. I also don't see what is 'retarded' about the explanation - demo units do exist for retail displays so it is entirely feasible that could have happened.
 
Wicksta said:
I also don't see what is 'retarded' about the explanation - demo units do exist for retail displays so it is entirely feasible that could have happened.
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Yes - demo units exist. However they don't:

a) Come fashioned from crude pieces of metal cobbled together
b) Come with a cheap foam heatsink which doesn't even resemble the retail HS
c) Come with a "fan" which is, in fact, just a sticker
d) Come in boxes littered with spelling mistakes

It should be immediately obvious to anyone with an IQ above that of a plant that these were not intel-manufactured products. Demo or otherwise. I don't believe for a second that newegg representatives are quite that stupid, though clearly they believe that their customers are.

As for newegg passing the buck to the supplier... well, I wouldn't expect anything more from a large company trying to shield themselves from blame :confused:
 
Duff-Man said:
Yes - demo units exist. However they don't:

a) Come fashioned from crude pieces of metal cobbled together
b) Come with a cheap foam heatsink which doesn't even resemble the retail HS
c) Come with a "fan" which is, in fact, just a sticker
d) Come in boxes littered with spelling mistakes

It should be immediately obvious to anyone with an IQ above that of a plant that these were not intel-manufactured products. Demo or otherwise. I don't believe for a second that newegg representatives are quite that stupid, though clearly they believe that their customers are.

As for newegg passing the buck to the supplier... well, I wouldn't expect anything more from a large company trying to shield themselves from blame :confused:
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Your post is great but of course we have the benefit of hindsight. Had Newegg seen the packaging at the time? There is nothing to suggest they had. Are you saying they are lying about the supplier giving them that information then? They'd better get their lawyers on the phone immediately in that case because that would be a serious allegation if it wasn't true.

Basically you are speculating and nothing more. I'm not quite sure what your exact beef is with Newegg but I honestly can't see what they could have done differently. They have terminated the contract with the supplier in question and they have replaced the fake CPUs.
 
Iraklis F.C. said:
dont they check at newegg their incoming goods?
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Not individually I doubt, they are a huge company and I doubt warehouse staff take much notice of any of the products. The turnaround of CPUs at such a large company must be massive so it's easy to see how they weren't noticed. They are a box shifting company, it's not a small specialised business like Overclockers.
 
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Wicksta said:
Had Newegg seen the packaging at the time? There is nothing to suggest they had.
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I'm not quite sure what your exact beef is with Newegg but I honestly can't see what they could have done differently.
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My "beef" is that they took the route so often travelled by large companies who find themselves in a bit of a pickle: Attempting to pull the wool over their customers eyes by assuming that they're idiots.

I don't blame newegg one bit for getting into this position - clearly the supplier has been the victim of fraud, and no-one can expect a large company like newegg to thoroughly inspect every package before it is sent out. These things happen.

I just simply refuse to believe that a newegg representative, who was assigned to support customers on an enthusiast overclocking website, would be stupid enough to assume that these are intel-produced demo units. And yes, he DID see what the packaging was like, since he was responding to the thread I linked above (in which the entire package was pictorally documented in the first post).
 
Box doesn't look too bad - can imagine that getting through a warehouse without being noticed (if it was sealed).

Not sure why they've gone to the bother of making a dummy heatsink and cpu though, anyone opening it would know it was dodgy so why not just have a solid lump of foam / brick / coal / whatever you have too much of ?
 
Telescopi said:
Box doesn't look too bad - can imagine that getting through a warehouse without being noticed (if it was sealed).

Not sure why they've gone to the bother of making a dummy heatsink and cpu though, anyone opening it would know it was dodgy so why not just have a solid lump of foam / brick / coal / whatever you have too much of ?
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Oh come on think about it, if there was no HSF it would weigh **** all.

Hence, a lump of whatever to make up the difference.

Edit: did you edit that or am I blind? :D

probably to pass a shake test, ie retain as close to the original packaging as possible, the plastic instert, then the weight etc. the sticker.... who knows humour or to try and pass a quick visual insepction by stevie wonder?
 
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