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Faulty ASUS Sabertooth motherboard by Jardz04

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Deal Thread URL: [Sale] - Asus Sabertooth 990fx R2.0 | Other PC Components
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@Jardz04
Buyer: @Fr0zen
Description of Bad Deal:
Initially found on a AM3 motherboard wanted page for a R1000, DMd Jardz04, took it to WhatsApp, went through vids and pics of motherboard couldn't provide proof that it works till post as he did not have any RAM, price was increased to R1500 which I accepted on condition of an one week warranty, the exchange was made on the 10th of August, the board was minus a CPU cooler bracket with damage around the CPU area(looks like a cooler was glued straight on and removed), I luckily had a bracket from my old motherboard that fitted, after finishing assembling, and reloading windows on the 13th of August, I found that only half of my RAM was usable, tried seating the CPU again, updating bios, clearing cmos, seating my 4x4gb ddr3 ram in different configurations and playing around with bios settings, I found that all of my RAM was working, and that it only POSTS with RAM in the first two slots, anything in the other two slots is unusable, I contacted Jadz04 with the issue and asked if he could either refund me R500(as I have to source larger DIMMs to make up for the slot deficiency) or swap back the motherboard as per our one week waranty agreement, after a back and forth on WhatsApp I was blocked. Will provide real name and cellphone if allowed.
 
Yeah, unfortunately slim pickings on am3 boards mixed with some high hope and desperation to get the rig running in lockdown.:LOL:
 
Hi, @Fr0zen and @Toxxyc

So, everything he says, in the beginning, is true. I gave him multiple pictures and one video. I had no RAM for the motherboard as he said, but I did use this motherboard for a while before selling it to him with no issues, as far as I was aware, the reason for selling was that the CPU was damaged and overheating, and could not source another one. The CPU bracket was something I didn't even know existed. He can not complain about that nor the damage around the CPU as he could have easily seen them in the picture. The conditions of the warranty, are as follows: He has a one week warranty provided he sends me a video(which I did not receive) of the Mobo installed and POWERED ON. He only started telling me of the problems about 2 days later. So that voids the warranty as he could have done malicious acts. The motherboard is still completely usable. I did not hide anything from you or falsify anything about the motherboard. I packed it nicely, sacrificing an Apple Macbook box, with antistatic plastic and even alcohol swabs, for hygiene purposes.
DO NOT POST MY PRIVATE NAME AND NUMBER ON THIS OPEN CARBONITE. I DO NOT CONSENT FOR YOU TO DO SO.

Thank you for time @Toxxyc
 
Hi, @Fr0zen and @Toxxyc

So, everything he says, in the beginning, is true. I gave him multiple pictures and one video. I had no RAM for the motherboard as he said, but I did use this motherboard for a while before selling it to him with no issues, as far as I was aware, the reason for selling was that the CPU was damaged and overheating, and could not source another one. The CPU bracket was something I didn't even know existed. He can not complain about that nor the damage around the CPU as he could have easily seen them in the picture. The conditions of the warranty, are as follows: He has a one week warranty provided he sends me a video(which I did not receive) of the Mobo installed and POWERED ON. He only started telling me of the problems about 2 days later. So that voids the warranty as he could have done malicious acts. The motherboard is still completely usable. I did not hide anything from you or falsify anything about the motherboard. I packed it nicely, sacrificing an Apple Macbook box, with antistatic plastic and even alcohol swabs, for hygiene purposes.
DO NOT POST MY PRIVATE NAME AND NUMBER ON THIS OPEN CARBONITE. I DO NOT CONSENT FOR YOU TO DO SO.

Thank you for time @Toxxyc
But you gave him 1 week to send you a video? I think 2 days is within the 1 week period, sir.
 
You gave him a one week warranty. Thing never worked out the box. He told you so on Day 2. That's within the one week. So either refund him the money for the warranty (R500) or take back the board and refund him in full. It's pretty simple. That damage on the CPU makes it seem like you knew something was wrong with the mobo from the start.
 
Hi, @Fr0zen and @Toxxyc

So, everything he says, in the beginning, is true. I gave him multiple pictures and one video. I had no RAM for the motherboard as he said, but I did use this motherboard for a while before selling it to him with no issues, as far as I was aware, the reason for selling was that the CPU was damaged and overheating, and could not source another one. The CPU bracket was something I didn't even know existed. He can not complain about that nor the damage around the CPU as he could have easily seen them in the picture. The conditions of the warranty, are as follows: He has a one week warranty provided he sends me a video(which I did not receive) of the Mobo installed and POWERED ON. He only started telling me of the problems about 2 days later. So that voids the warranty as he could have done malicious acts. The motherboard is still completely usable. I did not hide anything from you or falsify anything about the motherboard. I packed it nicely, sacrificing an Apple Macbook box, with antistatic plastic and even alcohol swabs, for hygiene purposes.
DO NOT POST MY PRIVATE NAME AND NUMBER ON THIS OPEN CARBONITE. I DO NOT CONSENT FOR YOU TO DO SO.

Thank you for time @Toxxyc

It is all good & well to send someone a picture with a fault that is obvious to you - disclose it & CYA.

The lack of this makes you look very dodgy as you are fine to sell something broken to someone assuming that they can see what is wrong with it (telepathy style) - utter bullshit.
 
You gave him a one week warranty. Thing never worked out the box. He told you so on Day 2. That's within the one week. So either refund him the money for the warranty (R500) or take back the board and refund him in full. It's pretty simple. That damage on the CPU makes it seem like you knew something was wrong with the mobo from the start.
Interesting. So the deal was he HAD TO SEND ME A VIDEO on the day. The WHOLE point of that video was to allow the warranty to happen, to make sure there were no malicious acts. I had zero, zero Idea that the motherboard was broken so for all I I know he broke it. Now he wants a refund to get some nice new RAM or something. And actually, I still have no proof it is broken, he never sent me anything before I blocked him. Oh, Ya I blocked him because he started to threat. The damage around the CPU is not damage it is literally prestik to keep a fan on because I never had some mount, that I never knew existed.
 
It is all good & well to send someone a picture with a fault that is obvious to you - disclose it & CYA.

The lack of this makes you look very dodgy as you are fine to sell something broken to someone assuming that they can see what is wrong with it (telepathy style) - utter bullshit.
Back to the 'damage' around the CPU, it is prestik to hold a fan. It does nothing whatsoever to the MOBO
 
Interesting. So the deal was he HAD TO SEND ME A VIDEO on the day. The WHOLE point of that video was to allow the warranty to happen, to make sure there were no malicious acts. I had zero, zero Idea that the motherboard was broken so for all I I know he broke it. Now he wants a refund to get some nice new RAM or something. And actually, I still have no proof it is broken, he never sent me anything before I blocked him. Oh, Ya I blocked him because he started to threat. The damage around the CPU is not damage it is literally prestik to keep a fan on because I never had some mount, that I never knew existed.
You should have stated 1 DAY warranty, not 1 week warranty.
 
Back to the 'damage' around the CPU, it is prestik to hold a fan. It does nothing whatsoever to the MOBO
Problem is when prestik breaks down due to heat, I have experienced the oil/that residue in prestik seeping out and damaging certain things, don't know if anyone else has experienced this?
I know it shouldn't do that, but I generally try to keep prestik off of electronics.
Also it has a melting point of around 60c...
https://www.bostik.com/globalassets..._africa_en/downloads/bostik-prestik---sds.pdf, draw your own conclusions from there.
 
The damage around the CPU is not damage it is literally prestik to keep a fan on because I never had some mount, that I never knew existed.
Prestik?!?

That seems viable.

You mean to tell me you had no idea there was a missing mount? You never bothered researching, you just looked at the board went hmmmmm yes i see i can't seem to attach this fan, must be a design flaw, guess I'll just Prestik it on, not like the heat created wouldn't melt it. Everything will be fine.

Even then, did you mention to OP that you had used Pretik to attach this fan?

This whole thing stinks IMO
 
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Hi, @Fr0zen and @Toxxyc

So, everything he says, in the beginning, is true. I gave him multiple pictures and one video. I had no RAM for the motherboard as he said, but I did use this motherboard for a while before selling it to him with no issues, as far as I was aware, the reason for selling was that the CPU was damaged and overheating, and could not source another one. The CPU bracket was something I didn't even know existed. He can not complain about that nor the damage around the CPU as he could have easily seen them in the picture. The conditions of the warranty, are as follows: He has a one week warranty provided he sends me a video(which I did not receive) of the Mobo installed and POWERED ON. He only started telling me of the problems about 2 days later. So that voids the warranty as he could have done malicious acts. The motherboard is still completely usable. I did not hide anything from you or falsify anything about the motherboard. I packed it nicely, sacrificing an Apple Macbook box, with antistatic plastic and even alcohol swabs, for hygiene purposes.
DO NOT POST MY PRIVATE NAME AND NUMBER ON THIS OPEN CARBONITE. I DO NOT CONSENT FOR YOU TO DO SO.

Thank you for time @Toxxyc

Only 2 ram slots work - you didn't have ram to test that for yourself so.. just sayin
 
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Interesting. So the deal was he HAD TO SEND ME A VIDEO on the day. The WHOLE point of that video was to allow the warranty to happen, to make sure there were no malicious acts. I had zero, zero Idea that the motherboard was broken so for all I I know he broke it. Now he wants a refund to get some nice new RAM or something. And actually, I still have no proof it is broken, he never sent me anything before I blocked him. Oh, Ya I blocked him because he started to threat. The damage around the CPU is not damage it is literally prestik to keep a fan on because I never had some mount, that I never knew existed.

My (free legal) advice is to just save yourself the trouble and refund the R500. The one week warranty you made up and any other "personal" warranty you see here is nothing more than a gentlemen's agreement.

Rather not drag this out, it will get messy.
 
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My (free legal) advice is to just save yourself the trouble and refund the R500. The one week warranty you made up and any other "personal" warranty you see here is nothing more than a gentlemen's agreement.

Rather not drag this out, it will get messy.

Pretty sure the damage is done - if it walks like a duck...
 
I had no RAM for the motherboard as he said, but I did use this motherboard for a while before selling it to him with no issues, as far as I was aware, the reason for selling was that the CPU was damaged and overheating, and could not source another one. The CPU bracket was something I didn't even know existed. He can not complain about that nor the damage around the CPU as he could have easily seen them in the picture.
Here you mention "damage" and the CPU overheated, which could easily damage a motherboard. So you couldn't test that it's working, as it was obviously not working fine before selling to him.

It's simple - refund him and take back your "perfectly working" motherboard. Then you can sell it to someone else (if it works).
 
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