14 Aug
2000
14 Aug
'00
6 p.m.
Except that it wasn't ebay, it was Yahoo.
Nope, this is fraud plain and simple. What was sold was an electronic
"prop" used in furniture stores to highlight how a piece of furniture might
look at home. I've seen a variety of things from color TVs to Amiga's done
up this way. Usually on the bottom is the sticker from the company
(Proptronics usually, but there are others) that created it. Some of their
more interesting ones are color TVs with a color picture in the "tube" and
a light bulb behind it. The boring ones are all cardboard.
If I were you I'd contact the seller and ask for a refund.
--Chuck
At 10:25 PM 8/14/00 -0700, you wrote:
Jim Battle wrote:
With a sinking stomach, I unscrewed the case to find inside...
a sheet of 1/2" plywood screwed to the bottom, with no main board.
I'm guessing somebody "tricked out" the case and was using it
simply as a keyboard to some other project they had.
I emailed back to the seller, and his position was more or less that
he had told me about the lack of connectors (the power, at least).
This sounds like a good candidate for the Ebay Insurance program. Missing
connectors is not quite the same as a missing mainboard. It doesn't sound
like intentional fraud, but I would most certainly follow up with Ebay.