Ebay horror ...

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Mon Jun 11 11:07:13 2001

What is your problem with this person selling a PC Jr. as parts? They are
not exactly rare (I think I probably have at least 5 of them and have turned
down a number of others.) If someone is paying for the parts, it is VERY
likely they need those parts to get one of their machine running, and if one
machine can be parted out to get a bunch more running, I have no problems
with that at all! It sounds as if the seller was a bit rude in their
response, and that is unfortunate. It is worth mentioning that there are no
bids right now on the parts.

Michael Brutman wrote:
>
> I'm so mad. I'm watching on Ebay now as a greedy seller takes
> apart a PCjr, and parts out the individual pieces for obscene
> amounts of money compared the the cost of an intact system
> unit.
>
> We're talking almost a complete disassembly - he has even
> removed the IR receiver for the keyboard from the motherboard,
> and is selling that bundled with a keyboard. That part has
> no use without the motherboard.
>
> The power card, floppy drive card, parallel printer sidecar,
> and the "RARE" 64Kb memory card are also being listed
> separately.
>
> I polite email to the seller suggesting that the machine is more
> valuable as a unit basically came back as "I sold one part,
> the rest is all gravy, I know what I'm doing so mind your own
> business."
>
> So distasteful .... I wish there was a way to blacklist people
> like this.
>
> Mike
Received on Mon Jun 11 2001 - 11:07:13 BST