At 11:16 PM 6/28/04 +0100, you wrote:
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>In message <3.0.6.32.20040628173611.00878e20_at_pop-server.cfl.rr.com>
> "Joe R." <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
In my experience the prices on US E-bay are a lot less than E-bay in
Europe so don't let him short you on the price.
Joe
>[/quote]
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>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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Received on Mon Jun 28 2004 - 20:10:43 BST