Re: Some eBay sellers are assholes

Posted on 2022-05-01, 03:40

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by Kahenraz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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I sold a laptop that was correctly listed as "for parts" with gratuitous "as-is" and detailed photos which showed various parts missing. The buyer immediately opened a case upon receipt because "it didn't work" and "missing memory". I ended up winning the case, but I think I had to submit an appeal …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-30, 20:45

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by Kahenraz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some LCDs have a pretty good built in scaler. And there are also external scaler boxes. The good ones aren't cheap and most of the best ones are no longer manufactured. I've got a couple of the TVOne scalers that allow you to adjust every single parameter possible and they also have a ton of …

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Re: Some eBay sellers are assholes

Posted on 2022-04-30, 20:43

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by Kahenraz

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ebay sellers range anywhere from amazing to complete garbage. You can't always go by feedback since a lot of that is just lazy copy/pasted "reviews". I often encounter the exact same positive feedback description on my profile from completely different sellers, like they just copy/pasted the last …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-04-30, 16:06

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by Kahenraz

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Not that it couldn't happen, but I have not encountered any gum-like glues or epoxies that have shown signs of corrosion. I'm hesitant to say that all glues must be soft or malleable and to be wary of anything that is not. There are plenty of rock hard epoxies that aren't corrosive either. The …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-30, 15:42

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by Kahenraz

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It's too bad, because it was my experience that VGA was incredibly robust and "just worked". Until LCDs came around, that is. The analog technology for drawing to the screen is just wholely incompatible with the fixed PPI of LCDs.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-04-30, 15:27

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by Kahenraz

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It's impossible to tell how viscous these glues/epoxies are by visual inspection. Poke at it with a screwdriver. One consistency that I've seen for the bad formula is that it crumbles under only a small amount of pressure, like a stale cookie. If you remove it or scrape away at it a bit and the PCB …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-30, 13:41

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by Kahenraz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

LCDs killed analog video. Changing resolutions causes the picture to shfit, changing resolutions is slow, blurry or chunky upscaling, and far less flexibility with resolutions and refresh rates (out of sync errors). There are certainly a lot of advantages to using an LCD. But analog video is not one …

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Re: MK8330 : new soundcard based on the CMI 8330 chipset

Posted on 2022-04-30, 03:23

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by Kahenraz

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I have a problem where most mixers don't differentiate FM synthesis well in the mixer, or it's shared with some other slider like digital sound. What often happens is the digital sound drowns out the FM, the FM is too quiet, even at max volume, etc. What I ended up doing was pair a Sound Blaster for …

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Re: Some eBay sellers are assholes

Posted on 2022-04-30, 03:01

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by Kahenraz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Local classifieds are extremely risky for some purchases compared to eBay. I bought some speakers from a classified ad and found that it was missing the stand for one of them. The seller called me a liar, said that his friend was a cop and that he would call the police if I set foot on his property …

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Re: Some eBay sellers are assholes

Posted on 2022-04-30, 02:45

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by Kahenraz

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I sold a laptop once that was clearly labeled as having the dead battery removed to save on shipping. Upon receipt, the buyer opened a problem case and said that the laptop doesn't charge. I had to refund the item, shipping, and pay for return shipping. I tried to submit an appeal, but eBay denied …

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Re: Socket 5/7/SS7 (Motherboard) Tweaker

Posted on 2022-04-30, 02:20

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by Kahenraz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Do you hear that whooshing sound? 😜

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Re: Some eBay sellers are assholes

Posted on 2022-04-30, 02:18

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by Kahenraz

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I put in an offer on a listing this week, and the seller counter offered the full asking price. It was cheap anyway, but not something I needed that badly :) There is an auction up that I submitted an offer for and the seller countered with an amount MORE than the starting price! I asked him about …

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Is there an audio mixer with the same footprint as a Sound Canvas?

Posted on 2022-04-30, 01:36

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by Kahenraz

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Is there an audio mixer that would sit nicely on top of a Roland SC-55 or similar with the same horizontal footprint?

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Re: Getting the CT2800 to work in Windows 98SE

Posted on 2022-04-30, 01:33

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by Kahenraz

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I have had an issue with vintage cards but working right away, possibly due to the capacitors having aged. It's possible that leaving it on or power cycling a couple of times might help. If it's plug-n-play then it should show up in device manager automatically. It's the non-pnp versions that need …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-30, 01:12

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by Kahenraz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had an issue with RAM speed when I built my first Socket 754 Athlon 64 machine around 2005. It never was stable and I ended up swapping out the motherboard at some point. I think the issue had to do with the memory timings when using more than two sticks or something. I ended up only using two but …

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Re: Socket 5/7/SS7 (Motherboard) Tweaker

Posted on 2022-04-30, 01:07

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by Kahenraz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Next thing you know they'll start offering to plate it with gold!

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Re: Some eBay sellers are assholes

Posted on 2022-04-30, 00:58

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by Kahenraz

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I asked for some more photos since there were only some from a few choices angles. Yeah... it's missing some pieces, guy.

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Re: Some eBay sellers are assholes

Posted on 2022-04-30, 00:52

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by Kahenraz

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He's already asking more than I want to spend. There is another seller that is convinced that this item is worth three times as much. I sent him photos of sold listings at the correct price to justify my offer and he countered with listings that matched his exorbitant price... of completely …

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Some eBay sellers are assholes

Posted on 2022-04-30, 00:48

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by Kahenraz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I sent an offer on an item and the seller made a counter offer. Then I asked some follow-up questions about the firmware version, etc., and explained that I'm looking for a specific model. He checked for me (very kind) and I confirmed that this is what I was looking for. Then he made a new offer …

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Re: ARGUS Project thread - now accepting pre-orders (for north/south American and Europe)

Posted on 2022-04-30, 00:32

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by Kahenraz

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I had an expensive hot air station at one point, but I sold it and bought a cheap Chinese one and it works just fine for minor rework. The times I struggle with it are due to lower ambient temperature, when the board has many layers, or there is a very large ground plane. All of this issues are …

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