Yes, well, there won't be that many people active on TE, having had to deal with aftersales from any of these GPU companies within the last atl. <2 years, finding and responding to my question, so more years means more chances of responses. Also having data from 4 years helps compare before and after pandemic aftersales services from companies as that really changed a lot of them.
On my post here I made a list of GPU companies ranked. Ironically ASUS and Zotac both seem to employ 3rd party techmen to do their servicing for them without apparently any training, just agreements, so they have mixed reviews all over. Meanwhile Gigabyte actually has just about the best aftersales for their products because they have an active community manager on reddit and apparently don't employ 3rd parties to do their work for them. This is all confusing because as Omega said there it feels like aftersales depends on luck. Some people have a really shit experience while others get a smooth ride.
Their earlier reddit rep https://www.reddit.com/user/eddie_edits/ seemed to have left & replacements are not as good as per cent /r/indiangaming comments.
u/eddie_edits was really the best social media rep I saw in India. Companies need to get an enthusiastic guy, pay them well & put a proper system to try to replicate what he was doing. Surely word of mouth recommendation is slow, but brand loyalty would be better in the long run.
That is why it is recommended to get ADP(accidental damage protection) for any laptop nowadays because you never know when a service centre will reject your faulty mobo RMA because they see a scratch/hair thin crack on laptop hinge which has nothing to do with mobo failure.
