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Expensive even for a collector?
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:54 pm
by SaTrinxa
Have a look at this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Op-telic-RARE-ira ... dZViewItem
Seems a bit pricey to me but yet i'm not a collector.
Re: Expensive even for a collector?
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:02 pm
by housil
I got my whole case of 12 for less...
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:07 pm
by kman
I would say that's a pretty rare HDR...you don't see many being sold for £49. :-) But that's about the only thing very rare about it. Seeing as it's one of the yellow HDRs, that puts it from around 2001 or earlier.
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:02 pm
by MCIera
It's amazing how so many eBay scammers are the same losers that hang around on manufacturer's forums accusing the company of misrepresentation or false advertising.
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:05 pm
by kman
Afraid I don't follow MCIera...which forums are those?
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:32 am
by MCIera
Usually the forums of computer peripheral manufacturers or on fan sites.
One of the most common ones I've seen are those who buy known defective/scrap items on eBay and then try to scam the manufacturer into replacing them under warranty (even if it's out of warranty) and then selling the replacement product on eBay. A variation of that is if the defective item is current, they'll buy it off of eBay and then go to a local store, buy the same or similar product, and return the defective one.
kman wrote:Afraid I don't follow MCIera...which forums are those?
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:21 pm
by BigMark
I don't usually do that, but I certainly have in the past. Especially when Wal-Mart would take anything back period. If you buy something and it breaks, go get a new one and return the old one.
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:25 pm
by MCIera
I'd venture to think that you were doing it in lieu of pursuing warranty service, not as a means of income like some of those clowns are doing. I'd be inclined to think that what some of those eBay clowns are doing are nothing short of a willful intent to defraud.
BigMark wrote:I don't usually do that, but I certainly have in the past. Especially when Wal-Mart would take anything back period. If you buy something and it breaks, go get a new one and return the old one.
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:28 pm
by BigMark
Yeah, I'd only do it if it broke, and even then they'd usually just take it back w/o a receipt for store credit, depending on who was behind the counter.