Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge 3.5GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) Quad-Core CPU - $204.99 Shipped (Open Box)

This is the email I got when I complained about the refund wait -


Dear Customer,

Thank you for contacting the EVGA Customer Service Team.
My name is Chris Sansalone and I will be answering your question today.

Answer:

Hello XXXXX, The second email is just a standard refund timeframe for regular orders, you can ignore that. For this issue the refunds are being issued immediately. It may take a business day or two for it clear back through the bank. I do apologize for any inconvenience. Regards, EVGA

Quote from needgeech : Did anybody order or see the option to buy the chip "as part of a bundle with our EVGA Z77 FTW motherboard"???

Yep, posted the bundle, and was wondering if the would honor the cpu only...
Got the cancellation email as well

Quote from m715 : It looks like the i7 3770k belongs with this bundle they are currently offering: http://www.evga.com/articles/00688/ I will be curious if they honor the CPUs sold separately and how many they actually have? ...I'm hoping for one In the past the processors with these bundles have been listed as: " *CPU was used by EVGA for a few days for compatibility testing." and the bundle above is the same... Now if this does come through any great deals on motherboards? The ASROCK Z77 Extreme4 is always a fall back... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Pro...6813157293

Quote from WhiteFireDragon : The SD front page moderator is also at fault. I always thought one criteria for something to hit front page was that it's an awesome deal and at the same time, it's highly available for everyone. This deal was an obvious mistake. Most places do not accept opened processors to be returned unless it's somehow DOA, and processors never just arrive dead. And if they are dead, they wouldn't have been sold again. Even if there were truly some open box processors to buy, front page means it's widely available, so did the moderator really think there was an infinite supply of these open box processors coming out of nowhere? Not hitting front page would result in less people jumping at it. This moderator should resign himself. SDers need some more common sense. And EVGA is still a douche bag.

That's bull and 99.9% of the people know it. That mod has done for SD than many others and one mistake doesn't mean that they should resign. I bet you've never made a mistake at your job have you? If so, you should resign.

Quote from Engineer : That's bull and 99.9% of the people know it. That mod has done for SD than many others and one mistake doesn't mean that they should resign. I bet you've never made a mistake at your job have you? If so, you should resign.

I 2nd that, just because it's on the front page, DOES NOT mean its widely available, most of the time it hits the front page its dead quite quickly and there have been many errors over the years. Just get over it and move on...

I have had so many orders cancelled because of mistakes...BUT several have gone through that were mistakes, so its certainly worth the gamble if they had honored it...

this was not a price mistake...this was cart manipulation and it was a first. No mod knew how to handle cart manipulation.

Cart manipulation FTW

Quote from Binar : this was not a price mistake...this was cart manipulation and it was a first. No mod knew how to handle cart manipulation. Cart manipulation FTW

Maybe it was just a EVGA cart manipulation, and I'm sure it wasn't the first nor the last. As for the MOD knowing it, they just did their job posting what some might be lucky enough to get. People here know it's worth the gamble, no reason to complain if it doesn't work out.

Quote from Solace2 : This is outrageous...10 days for a refund for a mistake that was in their fault, and with no compensation. I didn't expect this to go through, but having to wait 10 days for a refund, this is most certainly going to cause some outrage.

Some companies take 30 days....

Quote from waveofdestiny : In my opinion, no, not worth upgrading from a 2600K. Way too close in performance and if you overclock the 2600k is superior. I'd wait until Haswell or Broadwell to upgrade if I were you.

It depends IMO. How much cash do you have, and what features are important to you. If you want PCI-E 3 (i.e. you are a gamer with monster cards or use tons of PCI-E hi bandwidth peripherals or cards, and need the doubled PCI-E bandwidth, only 3770K can do that). I upgraded from 2600K to 3770k for those reasons. If you don't overclock and need those features (doubtful , no reason to by k series in the first place. I had a 5GHz OC on my 2600k and could go a bit farther, but took more tweaking than I was willing to invest my time in, so stayed with that. I have gotten my 3770k to 4.725GHz, and it out performs my 5GHz 2600K in both synthetic enchmarks as well as my own tests (compression, transcoding times, etc.) so I think the 3770k is also faster clock for clock.

Wen the next generations come out (which have new pin outs, ugg), I will see if it is worth the upgrade again, but I doubt it, my 3770k build I am pretty happy with, latest gen SAS card with 18TB volume and 512GB SSD r/w cah in front, 2xSSD (Samsung) for boot, 690GTX for gaming and for cuda core processing (hope more programmers start including support for that, so much untapped POWER!)... I can play any game I want at the highest settings at 2560x1440, I think this rig will last for a while. I don't regret getting the 3770k, especially since I flipped the 2600K for almost what I paid for the 3770K (made a profit after selling the Asus P77-VDeluxe that i got in the bundle with the 3770K at Microcenter.

That is something else to think about I guess, if you want the new stuff and are OK with reselling... then net difference isn't much if you can sell locally and not have to pay the crazy fees on the resale sights nowadays.

Quote from albundyhere : Agreed! I would choose Asrock over them...and I NEVER choose Asrock!

ASrock is actually quite good these days.

Quote from Binar : this was not a price mistake...this was cart manipulation and it was a first. No mod knew how to handle cart manipulation. Cart manipulation FTW

I manipulated that cart so badly he had to call a shrink

Looks like EVGA win on this one, they get to keep your and mine money for a little while before returning it. Good thing I put it on my cc

Quote from dbz : Looks like EVGA win on this one, they get to keep your and mine money for a little while before returning it. Good thing I put it on my cc

My charge showed up today (was posted with yesterday's date). See how long it takes to get the refund now (bastages).

i just got my refund from EVGA...for a return that was received by them since the 20th of last month.

EVGA is crap

Just noticed this. EVGA also charged me 1.27 SEVEN times for just a single order. Dafaq?