Yeah, letting your rep know you are only going to be buying from them now to more than likely try to re-negotiate purchase price on Origin's part is illegal....
You really have no clue what in the world you are talking about.
Read this again:
"Devin Connors: Has Origin PC received any incentive, cash or otherwise, from Nvidia that led to the discontinuation of AMD GPU sales by Origin PC?
Kevin Wasielewski: No. In fact, I called my NVIDIA rep and told them I am dropping AMD. Not the other way around."
Now, here's the million-dollar question:
WHY?
WHY would Kevin need to call his NV rep and tell them that he's dropping AMD?
Sir, tell me why!!
BtW, I have a 5-year old (4 sons total) who can lie just as good as that, but he never gets away with it, hehe..
Lol. The statement made me think about excactly the same. Children is training at an early time. We know from studies that those who goes to daycare does better in life for the same reason. Bargaining, lying and learning to cooperate at the same time. Now imagine if you had 4 girls you probably wouldnt even notice you were cheated
Mom knows, though.
Maybe because they will be buying more Nvidia cards now, so Nvidia will maybe give them a bulk purchase deal?
You wwer overall profit margin, but higher overall revenue. Pretty much common busionder why Wal-Mart sells the same stuff for less? Because they buy larger quantities so manufacturers sell to them at a lower price. The manufacturers make a loness practice across the board.
Update 10-7-13: Origin PC co-founder Richard Cary took to the Origin PC forums with a more detailed claim as to why the company decided to dump AMD graphics cards.
"The decision to take AMD GPU’s off the web was made based on support. More Specifically, support from AMD to Origin, and Origin to our customers.
Take their last chipset announcement for example. It was another hardware representative that informed us of the new Hawaii chipset. AMD never told us anything about it, nor shared a road map outlining its future integration. When we did get with our AMD representative, we were told that there was a new chipset launching, and we could watch the event live and get answers to our questions.
We also asked for samples to start our research and development process, something that is standard in the industry for bleeding edge integrators, and we were met with resistance there... When they did agree to send samples it was for [two] R9 270’s, rather than the R9 280's or 290's that we would be more likely to offer...
Moreover, this wasn’t the first time AMD had done something like this to us. Support from AMD to Origin hasn’t been where it should be or up to par like we get from other vendors. In my opinion it's due to our size. We don’t move enough AMD product for them to worry about us. You would think they would work with us to help grow the Origin-AMD business relationship."
Yes, but if you make a public statement saying you're not going to be buying products from company A, why would company B offer a better deal? Nvidia will already get 100% of Origin GPU purchases with AMD out of the game, so why would they lower prices? If Nvidia is no longer having to compete with AMD for Origin's business, there's not reason to offer lower prices.
Not sure if this was posted but this seems more legit and AMD should reach out to Origin PC IMO.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2052...ion-to-so-publicly-dump-amd-video-cards-.html
So nobody told them anything in advance and they didn't get (as much) free stuff as they wanted. Boo hoo.
According to their whiny little baby of a CEO. This guy has no clue how to act professionally, you don't burn your bridges and call out companies in public. What a maroon.AMD just didn't treat them as well as their other vendors, so they publicly stated such.
According to their whiny little baby of a CEO. This guy has no clue how to act professionally, you don't burn your bridges and call out companies in public. What a maroon.
It's not like it will really effect his business though. It puts their name in the press and Nvidia isn't going to be all like "oh my god! you bad mouthed AMD, we are not selling you cards!".
I honestly thought this thread was about EA's Origin having like downloadable driver updates for AMD cards and removing them.
More like AMD acted like they didn't care about a vendor, so the vendor dropped them. It makes very little sense to send them 2 test 270s. I know people that use boutique builders like Origin aren't buying budget parts. AMD just didn't treat them as well as their other vendors, so they publicly stated such.
He didn't say whether he was willing to pay for the samples. Small businesses often have to pay to play while bigger businesses have suppliers doing cartwheels for them.
I think he meant bad support from AMD, not bad support for end users.
If I ever go to buy a high end pre-built PC (which will be never) it sure as heck won't be from this company.
Oh this is rich, #Nvidia is calling OEMs and accusing the all of being the one leak to me. Then they say #AMD made it all up. Parse error.