Iris030380 wrote:Thanks Phil. […]
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Thanks Phil.
It's difficult to know which parts are an investment. I am slightly out of touch as I stopped collecting a few years ago. Since then only things that have fallen into my lap have made their way into the storage room.
eBay is not an option for me, after someone tried to scam me out of an HD5970 I sold on there some years ago, I had to pull the listing, and as far as eBay is concerned it was a "sold" item and they wanted their percentage. I was forced to close my PayPal account because of this, and have never used eBay since. That HD5970 incident was just the last straw in a series of bad experiences, including a woman stealing a working motherboard from me (and taking her money back via PayPal) and posting me a broken one covered in dust, but in MY original box I had posted her my motherboard in! Again, eBay ruled in her favour, so I was down a motherboard and £45! There were more "incidents" and eventually I gave up on eBay / PayPal entirely. On a plus side, a fella from London ended up buying that HD5970 from me for £250 and simply forwarded me the money, which somewhat restored my trust of people a bit, so it wasn't all so bad.
I'm gonna stick with AMIBAY and local listings I think. It might take some time but with recovering sprained knee, I have time! 🤣
Sorry to go off topic here, but I just wanted to chime in on this. I had an incident where a buyer purchased a Pentium 4 HT Prescott for $5.95 + $2.50 shipping. The buy bought it on a Thursday, I mailed it out on a Tuesday (Monday was a holiday here). I informed the customer that I went to the Post Office to drop it off on Monday, but they were closed. Customer wrote back saying I should have shipped it out on Friday or Saturday , but that is not possible since I had other major life priorities at the time. My listing clearly stated that items can take up to 3 business days to ship (weekends and holidays excluded). Customer demanded I refund them $2.50 for the "inconvenience" (what inconvenience?), so I offered them a choice: either I cancel the order, or I refund them the $2.50. Customer opted for the refund, and very angrily said to ship it out with "no more delays." At this point I probably should have just canceled the order.
I knew this person would be trouble. After the received the item, not but two or three days later, they were filing for a return, evne though the listing, again, stated NO RETURNS; claimed the "CPU is faulty because it kept BSODing after 24 hours or usage over three days, but doesn't happen as often with other Pentium 4 CPU." I kindly informed the customer that it is likely their motherboard or power supply. Nope. Wasn't going to listen - demanded I refund the full amount without return, or refund them both return shipping and full amount when I received it. I told them to give it back, and when I do get it, I am testing it - which I did. I installed it in one of my machines and ran Prime95 for 6+ hours without a single problem. Not one. I went round and round with Ebay customer service, and two of the agents noted that the buyer was committing feedback extortion in the return comments, and file complaint with their escalation department - which said the buyer wasn't committing extortion. Long story short they ruled in the buyer's favor, and docked the full purchase amount, plus the $7.90 return shipping (Which I believe he overstated the weight of the item), which only cost me $2.50 (normally $3.30+ without discount). After that fiasco I put the CPU in another system and ran Prime95 for 2 solid days - again, not a single error or BSOD occured. I took photographic evidence + screenshots to prove to them that this buyer was lying and committing return - Nope, Ebay clearly doesn't care.
I am still debating on whether or not to file a police report on this buyer as he was attempting intimidation by using my shipping address and finding out where I worked and asking if I was the owner of [business name] ( I just used my name and store address, which does not contain the name of the business, or any indication it is a business).