Seems like everyone fell prey to this "deal".
Straight out of the box =
- Faulty Micro SD card.
- 50% of the pins on the GPIO board are bent beyond repair.
- No power supply at all!
- Case won't work with all of the contents in this "deal".
- Might be more issues, I threw in the towel after discovering the bent pins on the GPIO board.
Have had a single issue with historic Massdrop purchases/"deals", and Massdrop was quick to offer effective resolve on that matter. Considering how many items they offer on a regular basis, I suppose it's inevitable to get taken to the cleaners every once in a while. That said, I'm going to give Massdrop the benefit of the doubt - they weren't aware of this fraudulent offer and are working on remedying the issues to everyone that's unsatisfied with the results of this "deal". That said, it seems the blame is partially on us as I'm now finding most all other "Raspberry Pi deals" had through Massdrop seem to have similar issues. I don't think it's fair to place blame on MD exclusively for this, especially when this trend of bad faith offerings seems to be limited (per my research*) to this particular product.
- Faulty Micro SD card. - 50% of the pins on the GPIO board are bent beyond repair. - No power supply at all! - Case won't work with all of the contents in this "deal". - Might be more issues, I threw in the towel after discovering the bent pins on the GPIO board.
Have had a single issue with historic Massdrop purchases/"deals", and Massdrop was quick to offer effective resolve on that matter. Considering how many items they offer on a regular basis, I suppose it's inevitable to get taken to the cleaners every once in a while. That said, I'm going to give Massdrop the benefit of the doubt - they weren't aware of this fraudulent offer and are working on remedying the issues to everyone that's unsatisfied with the results of this "deal". That said, it seems the blame is partially on us as I'm now finding most all other "Raspberry Pi deals" had through Massdrop seem to have similar issues. I don't think it's fair to place blame on MD exclusively for this, especially when this trend of bad faith offerings seems to be limited (per my research*) to this particular product.
On that note, what gives MD?