The MSI-forum UPDATE: MSI announces it was an April Fools joke.

[WT]

I still find it amazing that a company of the calibre of MSI would try and pull a prank like that. It smacks of middle school shenanigans, not a top tier mainboard manufacturer.

Just when you think you've seen it all ...

 

[shocksyde]

What a bunch of dooshers.

 

[Freshgeardude]

I have been lucky with them, owned a S754 K8N Neo Plat and a S939 K8N NEO Plat 2, sold both machines and they are still working solid to this day, not a single problem.

I wish I had your luck... my barebone laptop litterally died in descent. I used it on a plane to watch a movie fine, but when we landed it did not work at all. MOBO was dead. they wanted 2 months to fix it and I needed it for school and stuff.

 

[Nik]

The mod who posted this on a manufacturer's forum must be insane. To post something that is so unprofessional and insulting about their customers is unforgiveable, even if it is a joke.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone gets sued, since MSI's reputation has been irrevocably damaged. At the very least MSI need to post a formal apology and have the mod banned.

Do you have any idea how loud I wanted to scream READ THE FUCKING MANUAL into the phone when doing tech support?

I don't blame the guy one bit for posting it. Hell, if he was just a tad professional, used some tact, I bet they could have stickied his post and made it a 'READ THIS THREAD FIRST' sort of post.

 

[3chordcharlie]

Read The (Friendly) Manual chip?

Did you know that the word "gullible" will not return any results in a Google search?

I would really like google to set that up as an easter egg search.

 

[Kev]

That was so unfunny that it made me uncomfortable

 

[Hacp]

MSI just sent an email saying it was an April Fools joke.
See original OP post for update.

Seriously, do they think about this stuff before doing it? They do it one week before April 1st and they lose a whole week of mobo/laptop/computer parts sales.

 

[Hacp]

Do you have any idea how loud I wanted to scream READ THE FUCKING MANUAL into the phone when doing tech support?

I don't blame the guy one bit for posting it. Hell, if he was just a tad professional, used some tact, I bet they could have stickied his post and made it a 'READ THIS THREAD FIRST' sort of post.

You don't blame the guy one bit but I'm sure MSI is real mad because they will surely have lost sales. You give a customer two boards, the same price. They'll buy the one that doesn't have a tracking chip. Of course, the tracking chip isn't real but they saw that post on the MSI forums!

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

Same no more MSI products for me, horrible customer service and horrible quality parts.

I have had 2 MSI boards fail on me, and a 3rds NB fan just stopped after 2 years. I also had a Bare bone laptop from them with many issues.. horrible quality.

i've had very good luck with all my MSI boards (used 5 of them in the past decade).

 

[ussfletcher]

You don't blame the guy one bit but I'm sure MSI is real mad because they will surely have lost sales. You give a customer two boards, the same price. They'll buy the one that doesn't have a tracking chip. Of course, the tracking chip isn't real but they saw that post on the MSI forums!

At the very least they will pick the company without the hostile customer service department.

 

[thescreensavers]

i've had very good luck with all my MSI boards (used 5 of them in the past decade).

you guys must be lucky as heck, since I have had such bad luck with them. Everything MSI that I own has broken. Literally I don't have anything left I bought them originally because I thought they were solid items, Its not just me my two other friends bought MSI barebone laptops and all of them experienced stupid quality issues and problems.

But hey if you dont have any problems with them thats cool I just had horrible time with there products so I refuse to buy anything from them any more.