NewEgg sells 300 counterfeit Core i7-920 CPUs, KIRFers pump their fists
By Darren Murph 
posted March 7th 2010 6:28PM
posted March 7th 2010 6:28PM
Oops. Over the weekend, it seems as if 300 or so unlucky individuals were shipped a counterfeit processor from the normally reliable warehouses at NewEgg, and Hard|OCP has the images (and video) to prove it. Vincent Waller couldn't have possibly been more eager to receive the Core i7-920 that he had ordered, but upon unboxing it, he realized that he had received a well-disguised fake. After a fair bit of digging, it seems as if one of NewEgg's "long time partners" (D&H Distributing) got ahold of 300 fakes in a batch of 2,000, though not everyone's buying the "it was an honest mistake" line -- especially when you consider that said company has already issued cease-and-desist letters to the sites who published the news. At any rate, NewEgg has already arranged for an authentic CPU to be rushed to Mr. Waller, and it's purportedly working around the clock in order to make things right with any other negatively affected customers. Hop on past the break for a look at the knockoff, particularly if you just took delivery of a shiny new Core i7. 
I am not sure how their receiving process is, but their shipping process is automated, robots pull the items from their bins and place them in the boxes.
If anything, blame the robots shipping these wonderful KIRFs! They ought to be able to spot a KIRF computer component a mile away!
Eh it happens, at least Newegg is concerned enough to replace them for free.
omg i almost crapped my pants when i read this. i got mine in on fri from newegg. my mobo was damaged so i didn't bother to open the core because the box was in good shape. went home on my lunch break and checked mine just to be sure. glad i didn't fall victim to this!
ToeCutter expresses astonishment at how many Engadget readers hold NewEgg in higher regard than....... Christ!
:-o
This thing could happen to anyone these day even from brand name reliable retail store. I remember years ago I bought an LCD monitor from BestBuy, brought home only to find out nothing in it but a few bricks wrapped around the foam. I was even more furious when brought back to show them with some sort of humiliation as if I was a con-artist try scam them. In order to get a refund, I've to pressure to sue the company and expose them to local media. Entire thing involve calling enforcer, how humiliated.