They Almost Got Away With It! - WAN Show February 04, 2022

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🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Save money on your phone plan today at https://www.mintmobile.com/wanshow Try FreshBooks free, for 30 days, no credit card required at https://www.freshbooks.com/wan Check out the WAN Show & Podcast Gear: https://lmg.gg/podcastgear Check out the They're Just Movies Podcast: https://lmg.gg/tjmpodcast Timestamps (Courtesy of NoKi1119 NOTE - Timestamps may be off due to change in sponsors) 0:00 Chapters 1:32 Intro 2:00 Topic #1 - Gamer Nexus Newegg return issues 2:30 Steam Deck live tease 4:50 Linus planning to run Steam Deck for a month 7:10 Discussing the Newegg return claims, RMA issues 14:02 Possibilities for missed open-box damages 19:44 Does Newegg run a scam? Whose burden is this? 23:40 Gamer Nexus fans boycotting, store monopoly 27:33 Linus's conversation with ASUS on motherboards 29:46 Amazon is not a great technology store 33:06 Other technology companies listed by chat 37:48 Linus reaching out for similar experience 39:42 Topic #2 - Sony acquires Destiny's Bungie for 36B 43:16 Speculations behind reason of purchase 44:48 Sponsor - Grid Studio 46:55 Sponsor - Graphus 47:34 Sponsor - Squarespace 48:36 Topic #3 - Facebook value drops by $232B 50:14 Other stock values & past examples of FB values 51:22 Is Facebook dying? & "The Palace" 54:45 Second Life, VR Chat 57:50 Linus scammed via a bad statement 1:00:00 Merch Message Reply 1:02:34 LTTStore Controller & Computer plushies w/ code 1:04:16 Dropped shares & company value discussion 1:10:44 LMG's cost of hire, issue with being rich 1:15:12 Spending & investments for a rich person 1:19:28 Linus's house mortgage, Vancouver housing prices 1:26:31 "Eat the rich," Linus calls Jake "Geoff" 1:27:42 Merch Messages 1:28:26 Open bench maintenance 1:30:38 RX 580's value in 2022, upgradability discussion 1:32:19 Principles behind designing case air flow 1:34:22 Motorcycles content, 3D printed construction 1:37:10 Newer mainstream CPUs, Linus didn't buy phones 1:42:12 Portable audio players, TrueNAS VS Unraid 1:44:05 Sofa with speaker, Sam Zeloof, blind aid products 1:47:01 LTTStore screwdriver bit loaders, Linus's house update 1:50:26 Warehouse newsletter: USB-_Crap_ signal integrity 1:53:26 Screwdriver material, testing Steam Deck on Windows 1:54:20 LTT lab validating LMG tech products 1:55:26 Motherboard suggestions, LTT mice/keyboards 1:58:42 Software side lab benchmarks, non-terrestrial ISPs 2:01:22 Rack mount PC, list of Linus's house tech cost 2:04:42 Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is up, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the WAN show. We've got a fantastic show
0:07.0	for you guys lined up today. Gamers Nexus has been making big news this week, calling
0:12.3	out new eggs scammy return policies. So we're going to be definitely weighing in on that.
0:19.5	In other news, so he acquires bungee for 3.6 billion, what a great Facebook loses 252 billion.
0:33.6	Well, so in valuation, magic money. And yeah, you stole my other topic. So I'm looking
0:44.1	for another one. Oh, yeah, I think you mean I'd privateered your topic. You pirated my topic.
0:50.6	Also, New York Times purchased Wordl because everyone has to buy every game. Every company
0:59.0	has to buy a game. We should buy a game. Okay, PewDiePie. Here's my offer. Okay, YouTuber
1:06.0	simulator. We want it, dude. I'm offering you two ABCs of gaming plushies from LTTstore.com.
1:14.1	And this lock of my hair. Okay, if you accept the offer, if you accept the offer, PewDiePie,
1:21.1	right now live on stream, I will go get scissors. I will chop off this lock of hair. Okay,
1:27.2	and I will mail it to you. I want YouTuber simulator. Let's roll that intro.
1:44.1	All right, let's jump right into our first topic. This has been quite the saga according
1:59.8	to gamers nexus. New egg has been running what amounts to a scam. So what exactly is it?
2:08.8	And I am expecting to be able to contribute at least a little bit of my experience actually
2:14.0	having worked on the retail side of things. But let's go on and let's kind of walk through
2:19.2	what happened here. According to gamers nexus, the problem is that customers are being denied
2:27.8	refunds for ineligible products, specifically motherboards. The problem with this is that
2:34.2	the motherboards are often new in box. Jake just showed up. Jake, what can I do for you?
2:41.4	Yeah, I think I can show it. Sure. I'm pretty sure it's fine. I'm pretty sure I'm allowed
2:49.0	to wait. Are we allowed to show it not on? I think so, right? Okay, yeah, yeah. Okay, I think so.
3:01.0	I won't turn it on. I won't turn it on. Have you held it yet? No. Okay, we're going to talk about
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