06-03-2016, 11:43 PM
(06-03-2016, 06:45 PM)SickBeast Wrote: Speaking of the AnandTech forums and the shills, I just had a look at my old Radeon 6850 card that I bought used off the ATF, and it turns out that it's an engineering sample! It says "not for resale" and "made in Canada"! So it looks like the person I bought it from may have had some kind of connection to AMD. I only found out because I've been trying to sell the card on the used market and a buyer asked me the model number so I had a look.
Wholly shit!!!!
That's freaking amassing. Selling their cards the shill so hard to get.
It really doesn't matter what the user name was because it seems that most of these guys have multiple accounts. I know there are many high volume traders in the FOR SALE threads that don't post with that account anywhere else. Most of the frequent sellers in the trade/sell sections are uncommon names that you just don't see in the other forums.
I thought this to be odd, as it is something I have noticed a good while ago....
So now, it might make a little more sense.
If they are receiving products like the one you got sickbeast, they probably aren't supposed to be selling them. So of course they would not want a direct link to the user names that shill with.