Monday, February 6th 2023
ASUS UK Launches Trade-in Program for Graphics Card Upgrades
ASUS UK launched a trade-in program for graphics not unlike the Apple trade-in program for the latest iPhones. The company is offering cash payments ranging between GBP £65 to £300 for trading in your old graphics card. The way this works is, you purchase an ASUS GeForce RTX 40-series "Ada" graphics card from the company's ROG Strix or TUF Gaming series, by paying its full price upfront. You then submit a trade-in claim on the ASUS website within 15 days of delivery of your new graphics card. You then mail in your old graphics card within 30 days of receiving a trade-in approval from ASUS. Within 30 days of ASUS receiving your old graphics card, assuming it's in working condition and matches your trade-in claim, ASUS pays you the trade-in price directly to your bank account. For now the program is limited to the UK, and to participating online retailers, only UK residents can avail it, and the qualifying new graphics cards only cover the RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4080 (but not the RTX 4090).
This page lists out the participating retailers, qualifying new graphics cards, qualifying old graphics cards, and the money you stand to receive when everything checks out.
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VideoCardz
This page lists out the participating retailers, qualifying new graphics cards, qualifying old graphics cards, and the money you stand to receive when everything checks out.
56 Comments on ASUS UK Launches Trade-in Program for Graphics Card Upgrades
According to the terms purchases from third party sellers cannot use this program and in addition ASUS may decide at it's discretion whether a device is "fully-working" and if not, you will receive no money and your video card will be recycled free of charge.
You have more protections on eBay as a seller than you do with this program. You only get how much they pay you after they receive your video card and by then they already have your card and significant leverage.
FYI that eBay fee drops significantly if you have a store (which is only $20 / month). I like to group up my tech sales and buy a store for a month. If you price your products well you can easily sell them in that time and no one is going to want to return a sweet deal.
Took months to process, then when I finally got a reply it said the review I left wasn't valid, with no way to update it.
I just gave up in the end and accepted the £25 was not worth me spending hours trying to sort it out (no contact phone number just email)
Basically don't rely on claiming it back as part of a justification for buying their products
Wtaf
I sometimes feel like a guy mistaken for a spy.
The river flows until noon Cedric, let the chic pee roll wink wink.?!?
Oh right there's more, no, you do you but leave me out of it.
They're con-artists, basically. If you have the time, sell your old card on one of the used marketplaces instead, and maybe while you're there you can give Asus the middle finger by picking up a $500 RTX3080 instead of their overpriced 4070Ti.
Edit: I just checked, eBay store is minimum $8 a month for starter membership. That is a nope for me.
So basically sense asus is normally 3-500.us over other manufatures you're giving your gpu to buy an overpriced asus gpu instead of paying the same discounted price to gigabyte/...
Great deal :kookoo:
The money Asus UK are offering for used cards is insutingly low, and in several cases, not far off the "ASUS tax" compared to other brands.
Trade in your 1070Ti for a 4070Ti? get £100 back to cover the £100 ASUS tax.
£130 for a 1080Ti is criminal, too. It's still a solid buy at £250 and matches a 2070S outside of gimmicky raytracing that the 2070S is too slow for in the first place...
www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4070-ti-tuf-o12gb-gddr6x-pci-express-4-0-graphics-card-black/6529351.p?skuId=6529351
www.bestbuy.com/site/gigabyte-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4070-ti-gaming-oc-12gb-gddr6x-pci-express-4-0-graphics-card/6527972.p?skuId=6527972
www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4080-tuf-16gb-gddr6x-pci-express-4-0-graphics-card-black/6525659.p?skuId=6525659
www.bestbuy.com/site/gigabyte-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4080-master-16gb-gddr6x-pci-express-4-0-graphics-card-black/6525661.p?skuId=6525661
ASUS TUF OC are clocked slightly faster, by the way.
Yes the issue does exist with other trade in programs, but that doesn't at all diminish the fact that it's another poorly done trade-in program. Fun Fact: If you list your product with Free Returns eBay provides additional seller protections. Mind you eBay's default sellers protections are not bad.
I used to sell on eBay and I have over 12 years experiencing selling there. I have never lost a case escalated to eBay support and left with a 100% seller feedback rating.
When I see a seller listing "no returns", unless it's an item listed for parts (as people buying these items do not receive buyer protection) or specific non-returnable categories, it's immediately obvious they have no idea what they are doing. eBay has a legal obligation to make the customer whole so all denying a return does is force the customer to escalate to eBay, who in turn forces you to take the return, and makes you look like the bad guy for denying a customer the right to be made whole. Now because eBay had to force you to take the return, you have to give the customer a full refund and you are immediately looked upon unfavorably if you decide to appeal. So if the customer ends you sending a brick back you have put yourself in a very bad position by doing everything you could to strip yourself of vital protections and making yourself look like the bad guy. Had you simply accepted returns you would have been completely protected against most shenanigans. Return rate for products in the PC Part category typically sit around 3% so accepting returns doesn't mean you'll get any. GPUs in particular have a low return rate as they are the easiest to install. A good chunk of PC part returns are people not knowing how to properly install parts.
Now as a buyer on eBay I have encountered a few scams which did require me to go down to the post office and get statements from the postmaster. I have to say that I've encountered more difficulty as a buyer than a seller. Being honest, upfront, and avoiding making assumptions goes a long way when you sell on eBay. The starter store is a waste of time. You want the $21 option, which includes a massive reduction in Final Value fees. It pays for itself after you've sold $300 or more worth of items which for someone who's upgraded their PC should be an easy choice to get for one month. The price goes down with a yearly sub but yeah, not a good deal for anyone buy more dedicated eBay sellers.
Average user on TPU is not going to pay $21 a month for have an eBay store just to sell 1 GPU for upgrade. Therefore, this trade in program still has value for people.
Yes, I would not recommend anyone to just buy an eBay store for a month unless they are selling goods of $500 or greater. Not worth it otherwise.
The brick in a box trick doesn't work anymore, at least not against anyone who doesn't mess up as described in my last post. I've had people try that and it never works out well for them in the end. You file a report with the FBI's internet crime division, the carrier, and the police and give a copy to eBay and they yoink the money from the buyer and give it back to you. A more current scam that fraudulent sellers will do is send an empty package to a different house on your street via USPS including it being addressed to the owner of that house. Given that USPS only lists street, state, and country, it appears to have been delivered. Meanwhile the person who did receive the empty package opens it and tosses it out, eliminating evidence. Of course this scam is 100% beatable as well but IMO the carrier scams are coming from sellers. My eBay account currently has a feedback rating of over 4,000.
For infrequent sellers, wait for an offer rather than using the store. Also, accept returns when selling but select "buyer pays return postage". That weeds out most scammers IME... Your USA links don't apply for a news article discussing a UK-only scheme.
TUF is £100 more than other base models here and it has clocks within 1% of rock-bottom reference clocks.
www.overclockers.co.uk/pc-components/graphics-cards/nvidia-graphics-cards/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4070-ti?sort=price_asc
If you're really really really unlucky and got a bad sample of the cheapest base-model 4070Ti you could find, you'd still get 10% OC out of it. 1% factory OC is not just pointless, it's worthless given how sample-to-sample variance of cards is significantly larger than that even within samples of the exact same SKU. You're not wrong that ASUS TUF are clocked slightly faster, but by even mentioning it, you're leaning into the irrelevant marketing nonsense; fixed boost clocks aren't how Geforces have worked for over a decade.