Another reason never to buy from PNY

[unixronin]

"Lifetime warranty" turns out to mean "Until we decide to stop supporting it."

Comments

[elegantelbow.livejournal.com]

Sure. The warranty lasts the lifetime of the warranty.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Care to provide a bit of backstory?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

9/20/2002, bought a PNY Verto GeForce4 Ti4200 64MB AGP card. It has a lifetime warranty.
About mid-May 2003, card croaks and will no longer function in 3D mode; it's 2D only. Exchange of communication with PNY results eventually in an RMA. Two months later, I finally receive a replacement.
The good news: The replacement card is a 128MB Ti4600. It comes with a note saying, "Congratulations! You have been upgraded!" The bad news: it croaks after three days. Mutter darkly, contact PNY again.
Six more weeks later, I have a second replacement card. This one's a Ti4200 again. The "Sorry! We downgraded you again!" note is conspicuous by its absence.
The card continues more or less trouble free until this year, when I attempt to put it into cymrullewes' game box, mabolgamp (whitestar having been replaced by vorlon, which is a PCI Express box).
Call PNY. "Sorry, that card's out of warranty."
"But the package said it had a lifetime warranty!"
"Yes. Lifetime is until we discontinue support. We've discontinued that card."

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

Wow. That smacks of false advertising.

-Ogre

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Funny, I thought the same thing. It's deceptive at best. As I mentioned, I won't ever be buying another PNY product.

[radarrider.livejournal.com]

I had the same Verto GF4 4200 card. It lasted only a few months. It died right before I was to attend a LAN party. Fortunately, I still had the GF2 GTS card it replaced, so I could still play, but I missed the significantly improved frame rate the 4200 provided.