Wanted to raise this point

i recently had to send a motherboard back to asus, received the replacement the other day....to my surprise this motherboard had two seals on it (official stickers sealing the bag). This used to be generally what you would expect with any new motherboard....but after buying motherboards on and off from newegg , i never see a seal ever. i also see that people will note this in their reviews also. generally we expect a seal on any new piece of hardware (always have seals on every other piece of hardware i order), when and why did this practice stop with motherboards? also, if anyone here has any experience with amazon,tigerdirect, or the like, do they also ship you your motherboard with no seal? (discounting a piece of scotch tape).

I am pretty certain that my MSI P67A GD65 board that I bought from Newegg had a seal or two on it back in July.

i pretty much buy strictly asus, so maybe it's just asus then....i did buy an asrock board a few months ago, and as far as i remember it did not have a seal either...though afaik asrock is just a branch of asus anyway.

do you buy asus? it's looking more and more like asus is the culprit. i know for a fact that this is not only happening to me (otherwise i would not have raised the point on a message board). i know rl friends and acquaintances, as well as many people online this has happened to as well. maybe the answer has revealed itself that quickly, it's just asus doing this....

Has been Asus (only) till date.... the last one I bought was an MSI, but that was for tryouts.... Asus is still on and I do stick to them...

Of course it's new-egg's doing..... Asus isn't going to send anybody an unsealed product which is new..... not unless they specify so....
If your equipment is refurbished, it has a seal on it stating refurbished, if it is new, it has the original seal on it and if it was repaired , it will have no seals but stickers on it stating numbers and checks...

Why would I be Drunk?? You have a problem understanding, it's only Newegg customers who are ending up with opened packs and faulty DOA equipment....
The rest of us have already tried out stuff from other sites and usually send them back if the seals aren't as they are supposed to be.....Common Sense prevails....
People buying their stuff from shops straight across the counter are not ending up with open packages.....

I have had packages (sealed plastic enclosures) for memory from newegg "broken open" on 2 or 3 occasions ..... any vendor is only as good as their individual employees and I suspected that someone was "picking" looking for a very OC'able set.

Newegg replaced them w/o question.

I just bought a P8Z68-V GEN3 from Micro Center last week and there was no seal on the box nor on the bag.