old == worthless.

I see the eBay seller is getting plenty of stick and rightfully so. Give 'em a bad plug I say. But here's a very positive 99c eBay experience. I have thing for black IBM's and won an AS/400 for 99c (I now have three of the monoliths :-) - went down to pick it up, paid the guy and he also gave me another IBM desktop PC (in very good condition) he was going to toss. ++++++++++ Kevin Parker ++++++++++ -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Rob Sent: Tuesday, 6 March 2012 02:09 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: old == worthless. Bl@@dy ebay sellers... I bid on, and won, a Tandata TD4000, complete with what looks like a matching branded monitor. Cost me the grand sum of 99 pence - nobody else wanted it. Called yesterday to arrange collection, got "oh, we got it out for you and it looks like it was broken when we moved house". How broken? "a crack, and there's a cable missing." told them no worries, would still have it, should be able to fix it. "but my husband has put it out to be thrown away". Told her to go check if it was still about, I did still want it! Got a call back today, "it was put with some old PCs and they've all been taken away this morning.." Would they have done the same if it had been an iPad? Or it it had sold for more than a pittance? I'd certainly have paid more! The problem is, old == worthless, and if it's worthless (reinforced by it selling for almost nothing, even though that's all they asked for) then it doesn't matter. OK, it's not like it was a set of backup discs from Prestel itself, just a terminal to access it, but it's still galling. (The other, I'd drive to the other end of the country to kick down their door if I thought it would put me on the trail of them!) Sigh.. Anyway rant over. Wonder if I can justify leaving them a Neg...