Frustration with not getting pristine GPU's first time

[The-Hoff]

I recently bought a Gigabyte 1080 FE card. The outer packaging arrived perfect but the GPU box was battered at one side and the damage went right through to the foam. The GPU was fine but that was beside the point. When I come to sell on Ebay in a years time I am selling with a battered box and potential buyers will wonder If I launched it against a wall.

I then bought the Gigabyte 1080 G1 Gaming card. Everything was perfect but the GPU backplate had scratches down the aluminium and you could clearly see the silver through the black paint. The card worked fine but it niggled at me to the point where I have now returned that. At the end of the day I paid top dollar for a G1 card and I don't want cosmetic damage even if it is just paint. This is no fault of Overclockers, this happens with all things mass manufactured I guess.

Are you guys the same or do you just think, 'stuff it' and close it up in your case and forget about it?

 

[The-Hoff]

If the outer pack was fine on the first but the box was screwed that surely is mishandling at the warehouse prior despatch.

Presuming the G1 was sealed still the backplate being scratched is down to Gigabyte. Did it have any protective film on it?

I would want replacement/refund for both even if they were £100 products never mind god knows how much you paid for them (I don't even bother looking at current lol pricing).

Yeah I think the first card was caused in despatch. The scratched card was fully sealed so obviously caused at Gigabyte.