I think, as a couple others have pointed out, that it's more of a location-specific MC.
Nothing but great things to say about the Dallas location. Best of all, no one bothers you when you're walking around looking at everything.
Wow, I see a few more people had problems with "Bent pins", and MC not accepting the return of their boards.
Someone in the CPU forum basically accused me of being nuts for having the fear that MC would do that to me.
I'm glad I got an AMD rig, no worries about "bent pins" in the socket.
I think, as a couple others have pointed out, that it's more of a location-specific MC.
Nothing but great things to say about the Dallas location. Best of all, no one bothers you when you're walking around looking at everything.
Wow, I see a few more people had problems with "Bent pins", and MC not accepting the return of their boards.
Someone in the CPU forum basically accused me of being nuts for having the fear that MC would do that to me.
I'm glad I got an AMD rig, no worries about "bent pins" in the socket.
I'm glad I got an AMD rig, no worries about "bent pins" in the socket.
Buy a replacement plan and your worries will be put to rest.
replacement plans DO NOT cover physical damage
It does here. Different stores tend to carryout the plan differently, but yes, at my location, I was told "Don't worry about it. We will exchange it for you give you full price toward anything, regardless if it's damaged or just defected. Even if it's not dead or damaged, we will never test it anyway. Even if you just want to upgrade to something faster, just say 'It's dead.' We'll take care of you."
I bought a mislabeled HDD from te Westmont MC. The outter label said 1TB bt the actual HDD was a 100G. I didnt notice unti I had it installed. Lesson learned. Always double check that stuff especially open items.
I've purchased MANY items from there without issue to be fare.
Sounds like it was defective or formatted improperly.
NOT defending microcenter or any poster that says micro center was wrong, but I am answering your question not every mobo has tamperproof sealing when new.
I purchased an intel mobo from micro center and it was sealed in a tamper proof package >
{The intel is in my signature below}
I purchased the same gigabyte mobo from superbiiz and from amazon both were new but the packaging was not tamperproof. both work fine.
The gigabyte was this one
http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-LGA11...4978304&sr=8-1
https://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=MB-H77MD3H
So if either one of these gigabytes had come with crushed pins I would have a fight on my hands.
What I would recommend for anyone who is returning a mobo is to make sure the mobo is NOT out of your sight for whatever reason. Whatever they want to do, whether to inspect or test it, do it in your presence and make sure you see everything they do to the motherboard. That's the only way to not get yourself in such a situation. I can believe that if they simply don't want to return it, they can just break a pin and point it out it's you that did it, if you do not see that they did it, you can't prove otherwise, so you are basically at their mercy. Afterall, this is a cruel world, you know.
Interesting, I returned a Sabertooth Z77 with bent pins and the CPU it killed to one of my local Microcenters just today. I exchanged it for the exact same thing, but the whole thing was effortless. Actually, I've never had any issues with returning, exchanging or price matching anything at either of the Microcenters here in Atlanta.