Galaxy is awful, so my unreleased GTX 465 is for sale on ebay

Hope this isnt against the rules for posting but I figured its an unusual circumstance. Long story short, I ordered a GTX 470 GC card from Galaxy, and it turned out to be an unreleased GTX 465.

Galaxy doesnt seem to believe me and wants me to pay to ship it back and is being pretty unhelpful.

I know theres been a few news stories about the leaked card so hopefully theres someone out there whos interested in getting their hands on this card. All I wanted was the GTX 470 GC to play games on and this card is slower which doesnt help me

EDIT- not letting me post the link, but the item number is 280513037647 or just search for GTX 465 on ebay

I listed the auction for the price I paid for the 470 and you get the full warranty and can exchange it for a real 470 as well. The buy it now price is just if any review/tech sites wanted to get their hands on it for benchmarking and early reviews etc.

If you have a receipt or prove of purchase like an E-mail or credit card statement then you should be able to get the GTX470 you ordered and paid for, as its their mistake you shouldn't have to pay for shipping.
You may want to take a few photo's and/or screenshots to show that you did infact receive a GTX465.

Actually yes its more than worth $380 considering youre getting
A. an unreleased video card
B. a card you can exchange for free with Galaxy to get a real GTX 470
C. $380 is the price you will pay for a GTX 470 GC anyways

Youre missing the point, the fact that the card is slower than a 470 doesnt matter

This is probably a defective gpu that happens to trigger a check in the bios which occasionally identifies it incorrectly as a 465. Because at times it boots and identifies itself as a gtx 470. Its it was truly a 465, it would not do that. If it was a 470 with a complete correct 465 bios, it would not do that.
So there is nothing novelty about the card , imho, beyond its a bummer its defective.

I dropped the BIN down a lot. Its still an almost $400 card which is what I paid so the starting price is more than justified especially since you can exchange it for a real 470 as Ive said several times.

No one wants to go through the hassle of exchanging the card to a real 470 when they can just buy a 470 for the same price. Also no tech site is going to buy it, because it is likely they already have one and have the results ready to post, or are already currently working on it. It's called NDA, they aren't allowed to post benchmarks of a product without the companies permission. Your just trying to sell a card off ebay to screw someone else instead of fixing a problem yourself.

THis is one of the most rediculous forum threads I've read in a while, Channelx99 you are probably going to sell it, but truth be told it is not worth what you are selling it for.

DO yourself a favor and return the card and get what you paid for --- Noone is going to pay above a 470 price for a lower end 465 -- If Nvidia had only released the lower end cards and you had a higher end one then maybe someone would want it but not the other way around especially when as was already stated I'm sure the production samples are already out there being tested by all the review sites so there is nothing special about it ----- In fact you could probably take any 470 and flash the 465 BIOS to it and get the same result since the chip is exactly the same just the Bios has disabled some parts of the chip which could be done on any 470 or 480 chip by a simple flash and at least then when the novelty ran out you could go back to the better performance that you paid for by reflashing it instead of being stuck with a defective chip like this one might actually be !!