But I bought my 970 from amazon US T_T

In other news, my replacement 980ti arrived. Too bad I'm on a business trip today. Not gonna get to it before Thursday :(

Well, you can try sending the email confirmation, or something else that "hides" your country until they have already accepted the refund.

You lose nothing trying.

Glad to hear that everything has been sorted well, although I'm sure you would have liked a new 1080 as a replacement .

Most likely not. I never liked the 1080 and it would've only been ok until they announce the 1080ti at which point I would've flung it out of the window.

Are you really saying that, had they offered you a 1080 as a replacement card, you would have said "no I want a 980Ti"?

Why would they have offered me a 1080? I would have had to buy it myself.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10613/discrete-desktop-gpu-market-trends-q2-2016-amd-grabs-market-share-but-nvidia-remains-on-top

Summary: Overall PC GPU shipments are down.
However... That is the continuing trend since 2010, It is only the low-end GPU shipments that have been cannibalized by Sandy Bridge and newer processor IGP's.
Higher profit Mid-Range and High-End parts are seeing increases in volume.

AMD Marketshare is up, nVidia's is down, nVidia still has the most marketshare.

Let's see how things play out for the Christmas and Q1 2017.

At least something is happening. Now the question is, can they do something about their CPU market share when Zen comes out?

Hopefully they can. Would be nice for AMD to be competitive with Intel again, prices have gotten out of control.

I was talking hypothetically. The 980Ti was sold at roughly the same price as the 1080, and with the 9 series being phased out, it could be that Inno3D didn't had a 980Ti to trade for your damaged product. In that case, a 1080 could have been the replacement... although they could have gone with a 1070 that offers more or less the same performance.