dearley1231
That's the least amount of money I've given to a cat house. Usually it's about $70 but all to a good cause. 

enewt

xtremegamer
i have 130 how much is it in dollar ?
 
thanks 

65 USD

jfw06013
Thanks for the EVGA Bucks program.
Now that it's over, I will be looking at other manufactures and their prices.
Having said that, the tech support still puts them on top of the list.

B0baganoosh
Well said, Joe.
 
I couldn't agree more. I had started folding @ home because of the Bucks program many years ago. I stopped when I started having to pay my own electric bill lol, but I started again when Covid hit and they were doing some research for that (and I was WFH so I could babysit the monster rig built with adult job $ running flat out 24/7). I was just bummed that EVGA stopped giving benefits to people for doing it. It was what originally brought me to the brand because it made the hardware just a little bit more affordable and approachable. If I could fold for some Bucks over a year or two, when I was ready for an upgrade, I had a decent discount accumulated.

Then when I had some extra free time the last couple years due to the pandemic (less this year than 2020/2021 obviously), I could help more people in the forums and the associate account helped me still save up some Bucks for a future purchase.
 
It was like a thank you for being part of the community and now it's gone. The warranty periods have reduced, quality control seems to have reduced, Folding program ended, associate program ended, affiliate program ended, and now the Bucks program is completely gone. I still think there are some great people at EVGA and I'd still look here first, especially with their customer support and still offering discounts for now (I also think the queue was the only manageable system during the 30 series launch, so that was amazing that they did that and stuck to it), but they're removing a lot of the "special" reasons why I'd back EVGA all day long over the years.
 
I wish they'd say more about the reason for ending it. We can speculate all day, but we don't really know. I think if it was about abuse, they should have put account caps on it so nobody could accumulate over $1-2k or something...maybe smaller even. I mean, if you could build up a $500 discount at EVGA, wouldn't you still be super thrilled with that? I really like helping people on the forums...it has some real satisfaction to it. I also thought it was really cool that helping those people meant sometimes they'd use my code and I'd get a few more dollars off my next purchase (Edit: as example, I got just as excited when I'd get a blue ribbon for helping someone even though that was only 2 Bucks as when someone used my associate code for a product and I'd get like 17 Bucks haha). Nobody else was offering that, and that's  the sort of example of why EVGA has always felt like a company that cares more about their customers than anybody else. Some might say it generates cheap customer support lol as the community supports each other in the forums, but I have to say that it worked. The support you get here is way better than any other hardware manufacturer's forums I've ever seen. Will that go away now? I'm still here, but I can certainly see some of it going away gradually. 
 
I don't know where the company is headed, but thanks for the program while it lasted and thanks to everyone that used my associate code of the last couple years (I didn't have one before that). I really did appreciate it. As for EVGA, just please remember what made you successful in the first place and what built your community that gave you that success. Your email about this change gave a vibe of "this was to help build up a great community and it worked so we're killing it". That...seems...like you don't want the community anymore if you are killing off the programs that helped build it. I'm sure there must be reasons, but just make sure you don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. 

Cool GTX

NazcaC2
Lol. Funny.

And, I thought I used it when I got a video card back then. It's only about $58 USD but I love cats.

well I'll say it, Thank You for the donation