[Coco] Buyer beware
Roger Taylor
operator at coco3.com
Mon Feb 23 17:34:52 EST 2009
At 04:10 PM 2/23/2009, you wrote:
>On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Neil Morrison wrote:
>
>>None really. See
>>
>>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bad-eBay-Sellers
>>
>>If you give me the ID I might be able to tell you if he is a bad
>>dude or it was just one of those things.
>>
>>Generally As/Is is a bad sign. It translates to "I tried it and
>>it's junk but I'll pretend I don't know that".
>
>Yup. The standard maxim at Hamfests and flea-markets is that
>whenever someone says they don't know if it works; it
>doesn't. Don't see why eBay would be any different.
Maybe you'll get lucky and the main chips are socketed. Since the
screen appears to have been cleared before the crash, I'm guessing
that the CPU works.
I'm putting my money on some of the RAM chips being unseated.
--
Roger Taylor
http://www.wordofthedayonline.com
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