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Re:I ordered a box of boxes from The Packaging Wholesalers v... by rezgi on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:58AM (#22287742)
By keeping it for free you'd have done everyone a favor as I understand it:

- Amazon would have paid the seller of that motherboard 12k, out of pocket

- the seller of the motherboard would have made money as if you had ordered the motherboard

- Amazon would be out 12k

- You'd have a 12k mobo you can resell

- Amazon would be out 12k

- And also, Amazon would be out 12k

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Re:I ordered a box of boxes from The Packaging Wholesalers v... by einpoklum on Monday February 10, 2020 @06:56AM (#22288342)
> You'd have a 12k mobo you can resell

I doubt anyone would buy a 12k mobo from someone off the street. In fact, I doubt anyone would accept a _free_ 12k mobo from someone off the street - if you need that kind of hardware, the risk of questionable sourcing is probably higher than the cost the board.

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Re:I ordered a box of boxes from The Packaging Wholesalers v... by bluedino on Monday February 10, 2020 @07:41AM (#22288571)
It'd sell in 5 minutes on /r/hardwareswap
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Re:I ordered a box of boxes from The Packaging Wholesalers v... by dwild on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:01AM (#22290222)
> I doubt anyone would buy a 12k mobo from someone off the street. In fact, I doubt anyone would accept a _free_ 12k mobo from someone off the street - if you need that kind of hardware, the risk of questionable sourcing is probably higher than the cost the board.

Well someone just tried to sell one on Amazon... no idea if it stayed there for long, but it was there. Same goes on Ebay. I don't think he could sell it for 12k, but he can certainly sell it for quite a bit.

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Re:I ordered a box of boxes from The Packaging Wholesalers v... by CryptoBanker on Monday February 10, 2020 @09:31AM (#22289384)
Next you'll tell me that there's no market for used cryptocurrency mining GPUs...
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