Review for user shawn_16 from JasonGW

  • JasonGW (121)

    Bought a Modded Geforce card from Shawn during the holiday rush

    JasonGW was the Seller on November 30, 2000 PC Abusers

    I got the card from Shawn, in a plastic zip lock bag with Arctic Silver all over the place. I didn't think too much of it, given that usually thermal pastes are non conductive, and sat the card aside until I could find time to test it. I found time finalyl in early February and was dismayed that it had lines and odd characters all over the screen. I popped off the RAM sinks to find that under them, and even under the RAM chips, was SOAKED with Arctic Silver. I cleaned it off as best I could, and it seemed to work normally after that. This lasted about a week and a half to two weeks, then it started getting bad again and nothing I could do would fix the card. I spoke to the person who sold Shawn the card and he was surprised to hear about it, plus surprised to hear how much SHawn charged me over his purchase price, though that didn't dismay me, since I respect people making a profit.
    I explained the situation to Shawn and basically said that it was obvious the card had been a bum card since I received it from him and that although I wouldn't demand a refund since it took me awhile to test the card out, I hoped that we could work something out where I could either get a partial refund or maybe swap the dead card for a live one, something of that nature. What I got was an, "Oh well, you're on your own because you didn't have time to test it sooner." Of course it is true, I should have tested it sooner, but I find it disheartening that Shawn wasn't willing to even consider helping me out, given how much he had made off of me on the card which was obviously no good.
    Suffice to say I've learned 2 things

    November 30, 2000