I for one am NOT buying anymore chinese boards w/out FREE RMA process. FYI @ these BTC prices 5% is all that's left, so either STOP selling every GD BTC you get and HEY invest in the f'ing market you are profiting from or enjoy your noodles too.
Totally agree. I had 3/8 go bad. Canary was awesome enough to facilitate the exchange of 2 of them, only requiring domestic shipping on my part. The third I had to ship overseas because canary said he had no more inventory. Clearly he did or was getting some (see posts above) and just didn't want to deal with it. I don't really hold this against him since it is expensive and a pain in the ass to do all that shipping back and forth from overseas. Even with canary's generous help on the first two, I've spent well over $100 in shipping and insurance to do these exchanges and I'm still at 7/8 functionality since one board is still in the RMA process.
I get that smaller run runs of hardware probably can't be as picky about what is discarded in the QA process (if there is a QA process) but if you're going to cut corners on that end, you should offer free RMA, INCLUDING SHIPPING, on the other end.