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SOS - eBay claim. HP appraiser / independent authenticator needed. - Andreas Terzis - 03-09-2006 Hi fellows,
Edited: 9 Mar 2006, 7:08 p.m.
Re: SOS - eBay claim. HP appraiser / independent authenticator needed. - Paul Marin - 03-09-2006 Boy, am I glad I pulled out of ebay when I did. If I can't see it second hand, I dont buy second hand. I fully understand how you feel. Hope you get what you can back Re: SOS - eBay claim. HP appraiser / independent authenticator needed. - Andreas Terzis - 03-09-2006 Thanks buddy; I appreciate it. I think I'll take your advise. I'll explain what happened after I'm done with all the red tape.
Re: SOS - eBay claim. HP appraiser / independent authenticator needed. - Frank Boehm (Germany) - 03-10-2006 Since you will have to send some documents to the ebay buyer protection dept. anyway, I'd take a couple of closeup-pictures of the parts in bad condition. Together with the printout of the auction text, this should be sufficient. If you send the close-ups to the seller as well, he might offer a refund too, since ebay will a) forward the claim to him and b) probably close his account. (this might only help with high-rated sellers..) Re: SOS - eBay claim. HP appraiser / independent authenticator needed. - Andreas Terzis - 03-10-2006 Frank, Re: SOS - eBay claim. HP appraiser / independent authenticator needed. - Gonzalo Fernandez (Spain) - 03-10-2006 Ebay can be risky, this is why is not advisable to spend high sums of money in calculators, for example, is wise not to spend more than $300 in a new 41CX. All vintage electronics can fail, and calculators advertised in "good condition" are subjected to different things of view between the sellers and the buyers.
Vntage Electronics CAN Fail - Namir - 03-10-2006 Very interesting point that you mentioned about vintage electronics that fail. I have experienced that! For example, selling top notch vintage HP calculators only to arrive with problems. Another example is selling a working HP-41C card reader that develops a problem when it gets to the buyer!!
Namir
Re: Vintage Electronics CAN Fail - Karl Schneider - 03-11-2006 Quote: I've had three HP calculators I bought on eBay that exhibited some malfunction when I got them via USPS Priority Mail. Two were Fullnut HP-41's, and one was an early-1990's HP-32SII. The 41's worked sporadically, but sometimes displayed garbage and shut themselves off. These were restored to perfect working order by cleaning and soldering from www.fixthatcalc.com. The 32SII had a dead column of pixels in one display character. The seller bought it back for full refund, then fixed it and re-listed on eBay. I wonder if the flight in the unpressurized, unheated cargo hold of a commercial jetliner might have caused old, weakened connections to fail. After repair, the 41's returned across the continent via Priority Mail without a flaw.
-- KS Edited: 11 Mar 2006, 3:13 a.m.
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