In my oppinion all old boards are going to fail someday by bad caps from P2 era and on.
Everyone that loves older hardware like we do SHOULD be able to at least fix some broken capacitors and regain the old hardware their life back again before it is too late.
The board looks nice, i would have bought it even if i knew the caps were bad.
The guy selling it probably didnt know it was bad.
And as for going a refund it is a shamefull thing to do, if everyone would do those things noone would ever sell old hardware again that has some bulging caps. and would be a shame those got thrashed just because of a few bad ones on there.
The hardware deserves to get fixed, throwing out a good motherboard because of several bad capacitors is the dumbest thing you can do as the fix is so easy and with some practise everyone can do.
So easy to replace them, where are you from i can arrange you some for low money.
I have loads of 3300uF 6.3v 10mm Sanyo low esr and samsung 1500uF 16v 10mm caps.
You do not have to replace all of them, there are some in the 12v circuit before the voltage regulator and after the voltage regulator (mostly 6.3v for this hardware, and 2.5v for newer hardware for example)
I would replace all caps in the same power line of equal value if only one starts leaking or bulging.
Also check if there are 1000uF caps bad around the south bridge's and between the pci slots etc, shitty brands like teyeh etc fail and should be replaced all.
The very tiny ones you can leave on there.
It pays off to clean the system inside once a while and check if you see signs of bad bulging caps, if they start failing completely after some blue screens etc the power regulator can get destroyed or the cpu itself due to bad filtering and voltage and current spikes.
A good possible cause also for good brand caps to go bad on the mother board is to buy some shitty QTEC etc noname brand PSU's they suck at filtering the power lines and cause ripples that destroy the rest of the hardware in time.
I would not like to know how many people use A brand computer internal parts but together with a low cost psu, which can get on fire when there is too much current draw and kill all your hardware.