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evintagerides54 · ‎01-10-2020

Hi

What is wrong with all the used motherboard sellers? It only takes 30 seconds to pull the I/O shield, yet few people do it. Your mobo is worthless without it! It's always there when you take it out of the case. Stop being lazy - Pull it too! It will be easier to sell and buyers will be happier. Bag it and tape it to the mobo. Easy to ship since it's already on it.

Thanks

Will

spoo_4285 · ‎01-13-2020

@evintagerides54 you do realize there are sellers who get just the boards with nothing else? It's not like they are throwing away the io shields to annoy you.

evintagerides54 · ‎01-13-2020

Well Then they ought to be talking to their vendors. Somebody is being lazy here. The I/O shield was there when the case was stripped. It's value added for everyone. And those folks selling off upgraded boards are super guilty when they throw it away. And yes I do see folks selling I/O shields separately. Uncool! It belongs with the mobo.

spoo_4285 · ‎01-13-2020

I guess you have the right to your opinion but I don't think you have the experience to understand what is going on and why. Hopefully you'll have better luck in the future when looking to buy motherboards.

evintagerides54 · ‎01-15-2020

Oh I know exactly what is happening here and why. An accountant decided to shave a few pennies (<$0.30) off of the demo cost during the teardown. They didn't consider that the presence of the I/O shield added value to the ultimate sale. The cost of pulling it is trivial compared to sales price of the mobo. Now, certainly a new mobo from manufacturer replacement stock wouldn't have one but we're not talking about that. It's the used ones that came from old machine teardowns and they most certainly had one. The pressure to include it has to come from the resellers and buyers before the cheap accountants see the light.