Newegg... More Like Rotten Egg! - WAN Show February 11, 2022

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🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 111 minutes

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0:00 Chapters

1:42 Intro

2:11 Topic #1 - Newegg Open-box issue update

4:32 Is this situation illegal?

6:17 Different RMA scenarios, possible deniability

13:38 Where to buy computer hardware now?

14:56 Paul's Hardware calling to discuss RMA process

21:26 How did Newegg miss the RMA sticker?

27:02 Should motherboards cost a few extra dollars?

30:42 Linus & Paul planning to go to COMPUTEX 2022

31:57 LTTStore Couchripper Pillows

33:28 What to do about Newegg? Is this boycott worth it?

35:23 LMG Sponsor Discussion feedback on forums

37:08 Merch Messages #1

37:44 Shady companies that rehabilitated

40:30 Best first custom keyboard build

41:01 Linus goals talk with Yvonne, taking breaks

50:58 Sponsor - ID Agent

52:25 Sponsor - MSI

53:10 Sponsor - MechanicalKeyboards

53:46 Topic #2 - Best Buy Totaltech controversy

55:24 Chat trying to explain

56:50 Benefits of the membership

57:54 Not able to buy different SKUs

59:50 Linus discusses Steam Deck & Nintendo Switch

1:07:09 Topic #3 - Nvidia failing to acquire ARM

1:07:58 If LMG should be public

1:09:30 LTTCoin & cryptocurrency

1:18:02 Topic #4 - Kioxia's contaminated NAND chips

1:19:36 Topic #5 - Apple's Tap to Pay

1:21:58 Merch Messages #2

1:22:28 Thoughts on the app-based trend

1:23:20 LTTStore 3090 "Tie", leather holster idea

1:25:20 LTTStore backpack new revision, color & capacity

1:34:34 Valve rumors of new headset

1:36:06 LTTStore screwdriver bits holster custom colors

1:37:02 Transparency

1:38:12 OLED smartphone VS monitor/TV burn-ins

1:45:22 New PC generation upgrade, Pixel & Note

1:47:00 Steam Deck coloring & screen etching

1:47:40 Video ideas on more accessible devices

1:50:52 Outro

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0:00.0	Yeah, well, there's a difference between scope three and just like a successful product
0:06.5	in iterating that you want to add more features to. Yeah, it's kind of a different thing.
0:10.8	Welcome to the when show, ladies and gentlemen, that was a little awkward. We've got a great
0:14.5	show for you guys today. Lots of good topics. Oh boy. See, I always want to see the worst
0:23.1	in everyone. So I had taken the situation between gamers nexus and new egg and kind of
0:29.9	gone, okay, well, here's all the different ways it could. Yeah, forget all of that. Gamers
0:33.9	nexus posted a follow up video yesterday, basically proving that this is 100% on new egg. So
0:42.4	we're going to talk about that. Also, best buy is added again, putting GPUs behind paywalls.
0:49.2	So we'll be discussing that. What else have we got today? It keeps getting worse. There
0:53.8	are some contaminated materials at kioxia, kioxia, kioxia, which is going to cause the
1:01.5	loss of 6.5 exabytes, exabytes, exabytes worth of nand. So flash prices are going to go up.
1:11.3	That's the order it goes in. You've got your petabytes and then you've got your exabytes.
1:21.2	And when you lose 6.5 million exabytes, it's sad. Yeah. So that's going to suck. Also rip
1:28.5	square, potentially, if, if, if stores actually end up using it, but tap to pay mixed
1:33.8	little, all iPhones can be used as mobile payment terminals. Whoops. That's going to be a
1:38.7	lot of work. It's pretty big deal. Let's roll out in true.
2:02.4	I figured we better jump right into this new egg thing right off the hop here. Last week,
2:07.6	gamers nexus revealed how bad new eggs return system was with an open box motherboard
2:13.3	that they bought that had a problem with it that new egg blamed on them, even though gamers
2:17.6	nexus said they hadn't even opened the box. They just tried to return it saying, look,
2:23.1	we don't need it anymore. New egg refused the refund, saying the board was damaged and
2:27.2	gamers nexus was at fault. Oh boy. It gets worse. Yesterday, they posted a new video where
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