Hello All, I wasn't going to intrude on your rampant speculation thread, but felt I had to defend myself from accusations of Shill bidding.
@dillinger
That is a - what - 11 year old piece of outdated hardware?
9 years old, actually - not 11, although this particular item may have been produced as late as 1998.
Take a look at the seller's purchase history and you will spot the ORIGINAL 040 BPPC card which was almost certainly used in the "hack job" imo.
"Hack job"
Actually, no. The upgrade iteslf is extremely easy to perform with virtually no risk of damage, given the correct equipment.
£130 he paid for that! So not a bad profit margin there I'd say
Well done, an actual fact rather than rampant speculation verging on the libellous.
The bidders should just prey that he has done a better job than in the past with the hack and that really THIS card is not one he forgot to include in one of his previous"Spare Parts" auctions. Seems he has screwed-up the hack once or twice in the past (RIP) Which is not difficult to do
The 2 bppc corpses in the previous auction were:
1 - a bad mistake from
a long time ago, which resulted in a fried PPC - I DID however use this (already dead) board to practise removal of the 0x0 chip, and installation of a socket, in a possible attempt to resurrect the board in the case it was just a dead 0x0.
2 - A ppc I was given in exchange for a B1240 + scsi kit - which it transpired not only had damage to some traces, but turned out to be totally non-working aswell. I won't be doing business with that person again.
Oh - please read the auction details from the spare parts auction, you know the bit where it says (and I quote) "If it says "not working" assume it's not working - if you can fix it, good for you."
Please also note the positive feedback from the buyer.
@Dnelsonfl, dillinger
I'd be a little concerned about that brand-new 0-feedback Ebayer pushing up the price (registered 8/8)
Yes, I was - that's why I removed his/her bids. In the payment instructions I have stated "No bidders of less than +5 blah, blah, blah..."
There was also another 0-rated turkish bidder who pushed the price up to £410, and I also removed that. Why Turkey??
Anyway, if I was so penny grabbing as to use Shill bidding I
a) would not do it with 8 days to go
b) would use someone's account whom I know with better feedback (eg my brother's account, which has 230-ish +feedback)
c) sure as hell would have set n account up before now to do it
d) Would probably not have 99.5% positive feedback
e) Would not be the kind of person who sells wireless amiga network cards at cost price to fellow Amiga.org-ers
f) etc, etc
@Lando
Looking at photo 3, he's put too much thermal paste on the PPC. Just a little ball a few mm in size would be enough.
Actually it is a little ball a few mm in size, I just spread it out nicely for the photo.
@WhiteB
Oh wow, and the zero feedback bidder, is a brand new bidder (august 06).. thats gotta be a shill bid account surely ?
I hope his fake account wins the auction lol.
Kindly keep your libellous accusations to yourself.
@All
There's a little button on the ebay auction, named "Ask seller a question" rather than wasting time in idle speculation why not try using it.
Oh, for the record a scan of the rework is submitted to the photo section, however it takes a few minutes to upload so I can't post a link yet.
Regards
Rich
PS If you have any doubts about my honesty, feel free to contact the ebay users on my feedback list.
Feel free also to ask: MrZammler, JJ, Morka, AmiJE, Lopos, Gavilan, and any others whom I have forgotten which I've done business with in the past.