Originally posted by: Googer
Notice that since I started this thread NewEgg.com Has stoped taking RMA's for motherboards. CPU's and Video Cards are next..
That seems totally bull-**** to me. One more reason to buy mobos from your local "white-box" dealer. If you have a problem with them, take it back for a swap. Only problem is, they may not have as large a purchasing selection as the entire internet's worth of online dealers.
As far as potentially-DOA components go, I would rate mobos near the top, if not the top. HDs would probably be close, and PSUs third.
The fact that NewEgg doesn't want to have to incur *any* costs due to mobo mfg defects, is rather telling. As far as "fraudulent RMAs" go, I would have expected that video cards would be a worse category, and the first that they would refuse RMAs for, if that were in fact the reason for them refusing RMAs on a particular product category. I suspect the real reason is that many mobo mfgs are poor in terms of their RMA turnaround time, and that was making customers upset at NewEgg, so they decided to cut themselves out of the picture so that the customers could see that it was really their mobo mfg that was slow/at-fault here, by forcing the customer to deal with them directly.