Newegg, the online computer technology shopping website which is like Amazon.com for geeky people like myself, recently got burned by a supplier and was provided a supply of hilariously fake Intel i7-920s, which run for about $260 each. The thread that spread the news on Overclockers is what makes the story hilarious, particularly in the pictures- the box looks fairly legitimate, except close inspection reveals typos, fake security label printing, and perhaps best of all, a “heatsink” that appears to be nothing more than carved plastic along with a processor with no pins and heat bubbles on it somehow. Of course, Newegg is keeping rather quiet about the entire fiasco and called the fakes “demos”, but this is likely just to keep quiet until their lawyers can effectively figure out how to sue the pants off their distributor, who they dropped almost immediately.
Tags: business, computers, consumer rights, heatsink, intel, newegg, processors, Technology, web 2.0
