Palit Enthusiast Program

[wolf2009]

I get that, I do.

However, there will be people who have no personal experience with Palit, so they'd be recommending a card they've never experienced for themselves. So the only reason they'd be "recommending" the card is because they're getting free stuff at the end.

I've never personally owned one, but I know a number of people who have, and they all give Palit great marks, and I have to say from what I've seen they are really good, and I'd gladly recommend a Palit card to anyone, and with the discount I could even be helping someone to get a better system (which is always a plus).

thats a nice point too , maybe those who have owned a palit card can be allowed to do this . that would stop spamming .

 

[blkhogan]

thats a nice point too , maybe those who have owned a palit card can be allowed to do this . that would stop spamming .

+1 thats a good idea.
I currently am looking into buying a Palit built card for my wifes gaming machine (looking at the 9600GT model # NE/9600T+0152). As of right now I have no experiance with the brand but hear nothing but good about them. On my personal gaming machine I choose to run ATI based cards. Is Palit going to expand more into the ATI side of the market? I sure hope so.
@ Palit_Guy I really like how you are taking your ideas from your customer base, that is very good marketing!! A company that listens and works with its customers retains a much more loyal customer base. Those customers are more apt to recommend to thier friends.
I am fairly new to TPU (posting wise) and do not have the post count you guys are talking about, but I still will and do recomend Palit to anyone who is looking into the newer Nvidia based cards. I have actualy sold 2 cards here locally recomending Palit (pretty good for never owning one myself)

 

[hat]

Palit can only look more and more appealing to me from Palit Guy's posts on this forum
Too bad I already bought a Foxconn card :/

 

[wolf2009]

Palit can only look more and more appealing to me from Palit Guy's posts on this forum

so true

 

[Duxx]

I love the idea. Now what would be even better is distributing free Palit cards to everybody at TPU so we all have first hand experience and then we can rant and rave about the amazing-ness of Palit. Too bad ill have to wait until next round to experience Palit, I cant afford to upgrade yet.

 

[EnergyFX]

Palit Guy, could you please check to see if TPU user "KTR" is in your reward system. In a thread I started here he recommended a PALIT card to me for an HTPC solution. At the time I didn't realize that potential and value of that recommendation, but after some time I started to see the benefits of the PALIT 9600GT Sonic and just ordered one from Newegg yesterday. My purchase was the result of his introducing me to that particular card. Honestly, I probably would have never bought a PALIT had it not been for the referenced thread. KTR dersrves a point, even though I didn't know about this program until just now.

The deciding factor for my purchase was the brilliant incorporation of audio into the HDMI port of that video card. I haven't been able to find anything else that compares (spare the 9800 GX$$$ series).

 

[magibeg]

Does Palit make any ATI cards? I don't remember

Palit made my 3870

 

[smig]

I realy like the idea. I had a Palit card before and it was very good.
Having Palit_Guy here on the forums is great.

unfortunately I'll probably won't buy a Palit/XpertVision card this time.
I placed an order for the XpertVision 9600GSO 768mb, but the seller said it won't be available
can't find any other Palit/XpertVision 9600GSO here (In Israel).
I can hold the order of the new card few days if you can point me where I can find a Palit/XpertVision one.
I had a Palit card before and will be happy to have anoter one.

 

[Palit_Guy]

I'll pass this on to the head office and see what they say.

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

Im interested. I would post on my local forums. holler @ me.

 

[yogurt_21]

I like this idea, it would reward those who are already pushing your products, I would tend to agree though that people should only be pushing a product they've had personal experience with. so if some one owns a palit 8800gt, thats what their coupon should be for. This would weed out spammers and allow those recomending the cards to share their personal experiences with their recomendation. (which is better advertising and has more of a chance of success than a million posts of "hey you need to get a palit 9800gtx")

 

[TMC2K]

Good idea

I am running one of Palit's latest cards (9600GT 1GB Sonic). I would recommend it so far based on 1 month of use. I use the DisplayPort connector too.

This program is a good idea. But you might also consider giving points to reviews good or bad from people who own the card. Feedback will be very important if Palit are to build a market in the US. My own review would go as follows:

Palit GeForce 9600 GT 1GB Sonic
This card is an outstanding value for the price/performance and feature set. By supporting multiple outputs (2DVI 1HDMI 1DisplayPort) it provided a complete solution and support for developing technologies. It also supports SPDIF input and connetor to the mainboard. The performance of the card was very good using 3DMark06. At this price level, this card is unbeatable. This version also offers a generous 1GB DDR3 memory and is factory overclocked to 700MHz with a memory clock of 2000MHz (1000MHz x 2). Bottom line is that price, performance and feature set make this card stand out.

There are things I have yet to test. Next week I will add a 2nd monitor to the system and see how Dual monitor works. I've been using Dual monitor with nVidia cards for a decade, so I don't expect any problems. I do wonder if I can run a DVI and DisplayPort monitor from the same card. We'll see.

The card is BIG. It has a plastic casing to cover the large heat sink. If I ever decide to add a 2nd video card it may not work. I will have to dismantle the card and remove the cover. This card takes up two slots and encroaches on a third. This does not affect my usage scenario now, so its not a problem for me. But for gamers, it could be an issue.

The only real downside is that the support is lacking for this card. There is no indepth documention included on the CD, only the setup guide which is pretty light on information. There is no support forum or any other information on Palit's web site (only the specs). I didn't find any discussions of the card anywhere when installing it (but a good number of reviews). I know I can go to the nVidia site for support, but product community forums are an opportunity that Palit needs to address. (I only found this forum by accident when searching for something unrelated).

Since Palit are targeting the high end, they should deliver a high end card with an integrated water block. That would be impressive.

Overall, the proposed program may lack the scale you need to be successful. It's a great idea. It would be better for Palit to invest in a community forum at their site, provide some indepth documention and technical info.

 

[DaMulta]

all your base are belong to us


TMC2K, if you ever need anything that is PALiT related you can come here, or at www.teampalit.com.


I have pushed for pre-waterblock video cards. I think there is a market for it, but this could be a small market. There are also somethings that cause headaches with video cards warranties that come with them.
What pump should they get, what radidator would they need to have, do they need a pre-setup in the box and so fourth. We have talked about limited edition cards that have been moded with a bios flash, and a water block for extreme users. That could happen one day....

 

[TMC2K]

Thank You for the tip on TeamPalit.

Yes there are surely going to be issues with water cooled cards. It will be a small market for a while but it's where the leading edge people are now. Maybe OEM is the right channel for this for the game PC makers.

Nice to find some Palit interest groups tho.

 

[AphexDreamer]

Great Idea! When every you have the time, hit me up with a PM. Thanks Man.

 

[TheGoat Eater]

We have talked about limited edition cards that have been moded with a bios flash, and a water block for extreme users. That could happen one day....

and I still go to bed at night dreaming about it

 

[Solaris17]

I find it great that you are here palit_guy in all seriousness you dont see man companys on forums (at least enthusiest forums their obviously at their own) offering deals and asking for advice and asking wat we want in a product and actually making it reality like he jgsneptune code offered and inspired by one of our very own members....

now just a suggestion if i may...

for example i like this idea its excellent imo however if i may add my 2c

for 1 instead of the points expiring how about we have a limit like 1000 FE i mean most companys have them expire and it works..but f the points expire and they are only gained by who uses the discount code i honestly see it as kind of useless...because tech is expensive these days and not everyone can buy things on a regular basis that and on forums if you were to give out the code someone may have already bten you to giving him one. and if your friends are poor than theirs no hope of atually getting enough to get a card for yourself.....the obvious is that regardless of wether or not you have enough points more ppl are buying palits which benefits the company but...if i have poor frineds and i get beaten to the punch offering a code after 1 year time say i have 4 points thats like $4 palit money it all goes away....effort loss but palit doesnt experiance a loss because they just made $500 off of ppl....i was wondering if we could have a roll over system or instead simply a limit of 1000pts or so...so people more economically chllanged actually have a chance....this would actually benefit the company because not only wil you still make money from the people buying palit producs but you make a couple more long run customers because their not investing in a lost cause this makes the company look beter to those who cant buy a new card every time a new one come out.

let me know what you think

and than you and palit corp in general for actually caring what customers want and think..it makes it seem like your into quality not just your Q1 gross profit margin unlike most other companys

 

[Palit_Guy]

So I'm thinking the year would be a rolling year which is quite a while. The only reason I want a time limit at all is to remove inactive people from the list- just trying to think ahead.

I also don't have any way right now to use the points in smaller increments than a card. Basically I'm just going to create a spreadsheet with the people participating and just put in the sales numbers we get back from the etailer. Palit isn't set up to sell a card to an individual; basically we can't accept credit cards. So when someone trades in their points it will have to be for a whole card meaning you can't trade in 100 points and pay the difference with money.

So the whole thing right now is FAR from perfect. But before I try to develop a whole in-depth program to run this thing on a larger scale I really want to see what everyone thinks first and then try a small scale dry run to see how it goes.

The TeamPalit guys are working on creating a sales site to sell some water-cooled highly overclocked special edition kind of things from so I would probably route a full scale program like this through them. More like letting the community run the community and keeping Palit in the business space.

Ultimately, I don't really think this is going to amount to a huge volume of sales for Palit. By huge I mean more than 5,000 per month. Obviously even 500-1,000 cards per month is always welcome but we don't really have the man power to devote to trying to do this internally, nor is it our core business.

So this whole thing really is intended to be a way to give back to the enthusiasts that take the time to recommend Palit and answer people's questions.

On the other hand, if we start getting into the 5,000 per month range, I may have to reevaluate the whole thing and just pay people cash for their time. Of course that would require me to send out 1099s and report the income but I think we're a LONG way away from that.

 

[niko084]

Sounds good to me.

 

[KainXS]

cards that come with watercooling stock, is that it, I haven't seen that since the leviathan Ultra's

that sounds like a seller

 

[smig]

I find it great that you are here palit_guy in all seriousness you dont see man companys on forums (at least enthusiest forums their obviously at their own) offering deals and asking for advice and asking wat we want in a product and actually making it reality like he jgsneptune code offered and inspired by one of our very own members....

I second taht

 

[btarunr]

Do you cover Xpert Vision stuff? Is this scheme open to me?

 

[DaedalusHelios]

I have pushed for pre-waterblock video cards. I think there is a market for it, but this could be a small market.

I would buy them(more than one) if they were around $35-$45 more than the base model etc.

BFG price rapes with waterblock pre-installed cards.

Don't forget the three fittings sizes.

 

[Palit_Guy]

I finally got this through. I'll have 9 codes in a day or two (bear with me on that).

Let's see who is watching this old thread.

The first nine people who PM me, are in the US and have more than 250 posts here at TPU will get in . The rules are covered pretty well in this thread. Basically- don't tell any lies about Palit or what the cards do or what they are good for and don't break any rules on any forums like spamming. Penalty is immediate disqualification.

Coupon codes will be tracked (very closely as I'm really curious to see if this works). Every time a code gets used to purchase a card, the person who has that code gets a point. Points can be redeemed against Palit card at zipzoomfly within the next twelve months at the rate of one point per dollar.

 

[sneekypeet]

I finally got this through. I'll have 9 codes in a day or two (bear with me on that).

Let's see who is watching this old thread.

The first nine people who PM me, are in the US and have more than 250 posts here at TPU will get in . The rules are covered pretty well in this thread. Basically- don't tell any lies about Palit or what the cards do or what they are good for and don't break any rules on any forums like spamming. Penalty is immediate disqualification.

Coupon codes will be tracked (very closely as I'm really curious to see if this works). Every time a code gets used to purchase a card, the person who has that code gets a point. Points can be redeemed against Palit card at zipzoomfly within the next twelve months at the rate of one point per dollar.

You ,sir, have PM with questions!