Thursday, March 12th 2009
EVGA Announces Loaner Program for US and Canada Citizens
As of yesterday, EVGA is promoting its Loaner Program which gives you the opportunity to test out the latest EVGA hardware for two weeks right in your home for free. Here's how it works. First you need a free registration (free), then you need to choose the product you want to receive. The company will randomly select participants and then send out the product you wished for at no cost. Once your two weeks with the product are up, you simply pay the shipping cost to the next person on the list selected by EVGA. There's one more catch, you need to be living the US or Canada to be eligible for the program. For now the only two products available in the Loaner Program are the EVGA X58 Classified motherboard, and a 22" Samsung monithor with 3D Vision Glasses. If you meet the requirements, you can sign up for them at any time here.
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19 Comments on EVGA Announces Loaner Program for US and Canada Citizens
If you break it you pay,, I plan not too.
Like alot right now.
God knows how the previous person took care of the item(s) for those two weeks. Being the next recipient of used hardware, you could get something that's working in a manner that's less than "optimal".
Also along this topic, you're getting something that's possibly been bounced around the US an unknown amount of times, via UPS nonetheless. Something like an LCD monitor isn't going to be too happy taking that trip more than a few times.
Oh, and I have to pay shipping to the next person? Well I hope he's not 3000 miles away in Washington State, while I'm living (for example) in Rural Boonesville, Maine. The shipping cost for UPS Ground on an LCD monitor would be quite a chunk of change. Ideally (and hopefully),EVGA is matching up the next owner to be someone (fairly) close by, to minimize travel time and end user shipping costs. +1 for EVGA.Then there's the problem of people keeping the hardware and sending you some junk (IE...a lesser valued item). How would EVGA know that it was the previous user(s) and not you who is trying to skip out with the latest and greatest EVGA hardware?
I'd love to hear about experiences from anyone that actually takes part in this endeavour...
One things for sure, if you get a top of the range mainstream motherboard to test stuff on, your going to push it to its limits, otherwise you didnt exactly test it.
Its like you loaning your mates Ferrari, you have to thrash the living hell out of it.
Thats why men have a rule, never lend your car or your girlfriend to a mate, because when you get it back, its F'd.
I dont think EVGA will be supplying too many loan boards at the one time.
Im also interested in feedback from those whom get the opportunity to play with these toys.
and some will steal them and blame it on the shipping company
There is "only one" mainboard and "only one" TFT...
... but a lot of free editorial and forum column inches with the EVGA brand name.
That's how some marketing companies/contracts get paid. The number of "EVGA" webcrawler hits in a month.
..you need to be living the US or Canada..
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Seriously though, why are europeans ALWAYS shunned - we never get anything nice like lifetime warranty (bar BFG) or cool programs like this :/
And yes they do but that don't mean any thing as each card is being sent from user to user. Al though i don't think they would do this but i would like to hear them say they would not lol.
Here downunder, companies such as EVGA dont give a rats ass. We seriously lack technology, we pay superhigh prices for our pathetic internet connections as compared to any country that has 1.5mb+ connections and also suffer monopoly style telecommunications.
Would be interesting to get some recent EVGA sales history to Australia because in my experience i can see the total number of sales are reducing where they should be increasing. Still a noname mainstream company down here. (I know of them, as do many others because we like to look things up + the 8800gtx i picked up a few years back.)