HP analyzer probes

From: Philip Pemberton <philpem_at_dsl.pipex.com>
Date: Mon Jun 28 17:16:21 2004

In message <3.0.6.32.20040628173611.00878e20_at_pop-server.cfl.rr.com>
          "Joe R." <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com> wrote:


> BS! He's the one that shipped it without the pods. You're entitled to
> all of your money back! If he wants it back, then he should pay for the
> return shipping. Furthermore the missing pods, leads and grabbers are worth
> considerably more than $50! In fact, he has it backwards. The LA without
> the accessories MIGHT be worth $50. The accessories are worth $200!
His excuse:
[quote]
>> The probe kits usually sell for a premium on Ebay, the last few I saw
>> sold for around $50 just for the analyser-to-pod cable
> I'm not specialist but there's a minimum of 15 auctions on us ebay each
> week and it's really low prices compare to what you mantion.
[/quote]

Earlier he said:
[quote]
> in fact I've few pod that I devide on the equipement in stock to sold them
> at low price, so eaxh bidder will have a working set up.
[/quote]
I've sent a fairly strongly worded email to him demanding a refund, so I'll
see what happens next.

> I'm sure they're special cables. If they didn't need to be then HP would
> have used IDC cables. I have NEVER seen a LA that used IDC cables and I
> have a LOT of them. (Gould, Dolch, HP, Tektronix, Paratronics, etc, etc)
Drat. Apparently the cabling for the data lines is nichrome. Whether that's
for mechanical, reliability or electrical reasons I have no idea.

Later.
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