7 Nov
2010
7 Nov
'10
12:45 a.m.
On 11/6/2010 5:46 PM, Philip Pemberton wrote:
On 06/11/10 20:03, Tony Duell wrote:
There's a white haired "gentleman" who still shows up at the
TRW/Northrup Grumman and ACP swap meets who has been around for 20
years. I recall when he was starting out that he would be rude and
abusive to his mob of kids, and go around and buy absolute crap drives.
I discovered him selling them a few months later as "untested" at swap
meets with his kids running the booth. I ran across him as he moved up
in the ripoff game buying in bulk from guys who would bring clearly
labeld "bad" and the same packaging would show up as working or
otherwise with the drives scrubbed of the markings.
When I found him at that time, I asked whether the prices were at scrap
aluminum or higher.
I do know he was banned from ACP, but still see him ripping of people at
TRW. You gotta be careful who you buy from.
Aha...This remionds me ao a character I saw at a
couple of radio rallies
many yearsa ago. He had a pile of working hard drives. And another pile
of ''untensted' hard drives. Hmmm...
Read as: "I've tested all of these, but I'm selling the broken ones as
'untested'."
Then you get the fiercely honest ones -- I approached a seller at a
radio rally, and asked about some VRLA batteries he was selling.
"Ah, they're only a couple of months old -- brand new. Serial number's
here, and manufacture date here. Charged them up half-way the other
day, hang on, I've got a multimeter here somewhere.... Oh, and I'll
wire a car headlamp over one if you'd like to see it running under
load..."