Something odd happened last Thursday.
Ok, here's what happened.
I was working on creating a spare computer to give to Polecat because he's working on the house (he put a door going into the garage already and he's going to be doing a front door when the windows are put in). But there was a slight problem.
The 8800GTS I had decided to give up the ghost finally and it left him without a video card. No worries. We had a lifetime warranty from XFX so we sent in the paperwork and I kinda forgot about it.
Last Thursday I get a box in the mail from some kid and it was laid out like this:
XFX
123 my address here
sacramento CA 95823
I was like WTF? Inside the box there was a 5770 HD Radeon card from XFX and I bet I could have gotten this working and had a brand new card. So what did I do?
I called the company and explained the situation. They were impressed with my honesty and sent me a Fedex Label via email so we could send the card to the right place and help this kid out.
I dunno if that was the right thing to do or whatever.. but it felt right by me. I know XFX wont' give me anything for this (seeing as it was their screw up in the first place and I just corrected it) but it'd be nice to be appreciated for doing the right thing from time to time.. y'know what I mean?
A more unscrupulous person would have kept the card, sold it or whatever and this kid would have been out of a 200+ card. *shrugs* Ah well..
Johnny
I was working on creating a spare computer to give to Polecat because he's working on the house (he put a door going into the garage already and he's going to be doing a front door when the windows are put in). But there was a slight problem.
The 8800GTS I had decided to give up the ghost finally and it left him without a video card. No worries. We had a lifetime warranty from XFX so we sent in the paperwork and I kinda forgot about it.
Last Thursday I get a box in the mail from some kid and it was laid out like this:
XFX
123 my address here
sacramento CA 95823
I was like WTF? Inside the box there was a 5770 HD Radeon card from XFX and I bet I could have gotten this working and had a brand new card. So what did I do?
I called the company and explained the situation. They were impressed with my honesty and sent me a Fedex Label via email so we could send the card to the right place and help this kid out.
I dunno if that was the right thing to do or whatever.. but it felt right by me. I know XFX wont' give me anything for this (seeing as it was their screw up in the first place and I just corrected it) but it'd be nice to be appreciated for doing the right thing from time to time.. y'know what I mean?
A more unscrupulous person would have kept the card, sold it or whatever and this kid would have been out of a 200+ card. *shrugs* Ah well..
Johnny