[Coco] eBay...Don't you Just Love...

[Arthur Flexser]

I agree Luis, except that the problem may be not that they don't know how
to connect it, but rather that they don't care to go to the bother.
Regrettable, but understandable if it's a large-scale dealer of all sorts
of stuff.

Art

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) <
retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have to disagree. I've bought several non-tested computers and for my
> surprise all of them worked. Of course all of them were cheap enough to
> take the risk.
>
> From coco's to apple and recently a zx-spectrum +2.
>
> You just have to look the score. If you get someone with thousands of
> transactions and 99.99% of 5 stars, this person is probably telling you the
> truth: they don't know how to connect it...
>
> Luis Felipe Antoniosi
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Steve Batson <steve at batsonphotography.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Don't you just love when someone is selling a CoCo on Ebay and say they
> > have no way to test it and sell it "As Is" for the same price as fully
> > tested and working systems?
> >
> > Like they can't plug it into an Old TV have a friend help them make sure
> > it gets the sign on screen at least. I understand if they don't have
> drives
> > or other hardware to test, but at least plug it in and make sure at least
> > powers up and show's some sign of life. Same goes for many of the other
> old
> > systems. Common sense would tell most people that you might get more or
> at
> > least have a better chance of selling if you can show it is working at
> some
> > level.
> >
> > I know I'm expecting a lot...I just find it amusing all the crap people
> > try to pull on eBay
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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