UK users - ASUS offers up to £300 for your old GPU

[JayDDee]

It looks fishy, asuspromotions.com is registered to Opia, I don't see any direct involvement by Asus. Asus has promotion.asus.com.
I've never hear of Opia, is it well known in UK? Are they licensed distributors for Asus?

[joker_josue]

I've never hear of Opia, is it well known in UK? Are they licensed distributors for Asus?

This is what I mentioned in this post:

The company organizing this promotion is OPIA - https://www.opia.com/

It seems that they are experts in doing these types of promotions, as they handle the entire process.
https://www.opia.com/sales-promotions/sales-promotion-solutions/trade-in-promotions/

It is one of the best known companies in the marketing sector, which has already done for Samsung, Microsoft, Google, HP, LG, Asus and others.

Therefore, I would say that it is a completely legitimate campaign. And the terms and conditions on the website make it clear that the campaign is promoted by Asus.

[rdluffy]

The company organizing this promotion is OPIA - https://www.opia.com/

It seems that they are experts in doing these types of promotions, as they handle the entire process.
https://www.opia.com/sales-promotions/sales-promotion-solutions/trade-in-promotions/

I found this on their website:

To ensure efficient and ethical disposal of old products, Opia works with a network of accredited recyclers focused on maximising reusability and value of previous devices as well as on responsible and sustainable disposal.

Source: https://www.opia.com/sales-promotions/sales-promotion-solutions/trade-in-promotions/

There's two alternatives then, recycle or reuse, and in my opinion it doesn't make any sense to recycle the components of these GPUs that they are accepting, because they are "recent" GPUs and only accept fully functioning ones, so by logic they will sell them for someone to use again.
They probably sell in batches to some distributor to resell in other countries, or even sell to specific companies that need GPUs and will pay cheaper prices.

Anyway this campaign is very interesting .

[FP91G]

In Russia, there were many cases when a Chinese fake was sold in the official store.

Sold in official stores? That was the owners of these stores wanting to earn extra money with this fraud.

How was this resolved? How can the user be sure that the product is really original?

From my understanding with luxury clothes, usually there is some certificate of authenticy with it. This certificate has some security features. Whether those can be faked or not is another question.

However unless you are familure with the product, it’s hard to tell whether it’s legit or not. Some pretty good looking fakes out there.

I accidentally met a man who does this. The Chinese have learned to make a lot of branded items very cheap, but not all. They did not learn how to make branded glasses, but their dresses, T-shirts and bags are of very good quality. The certificate is also easy to forge. Store employees are engaged in such fraud, the owner will not do this.

[joker_josue]

I accidentally met a man who does this. The Chinese have learned to make a lot of branded items very cheap, but not all. They did not learn how to make branded glasses, but their dresses, T-shirts and bags are of very good quality. The certificate is also easy to forge. Store employees are engaged in such fraud, the owner will not do this.

When a customer detects that the GPU is counterfeit, can he get his money back?
Maybe you need the information to reach the owner to be able to make the claim.

[FP91G]

I accidentally met a man who does this. The Chinese have learned to make a lot of branded items very cheap, but not all. They did not learn how to make branded glasses, but their dresses, T-shirts and bags are of very good quality. The certificate is also easy to forge. Store employees are engaged in such fraud, the owner will not do this.

When a customer detects that the GPU is counterfeit, can he get his money back?
Maybe you need the information to reach the owner to be able to make the claim.

There is a lot of such fraud with video cards on aliexpress, when instead of 8 GB the seller sends a 4 GB video card, or instead of a more expensive model, he sends a cheap one, but at the price of a cheap video card. The return is very long, and the seller hopes that the buyer will not be involved in the return procedure. But the price of such ads is always below market prices.