Several PPC cards on Amibench

[NightShade737]

What I don't like is the fact he said no PayPal credit-card payments. For him it is the same either way, which is what makes me suspicious as the only difference is that you are covered by the Credit-Card company if it is a scam if you used a CC...

[NightShade737]

Good point. I forgot that you needed premium account to accept PayPal, I thought it was reciept of any payment.

Tangle: What names did he use?

[NightShade737]

Right, just got a reply and this was attached. This is all the imformation regarding payment. And it turns out it isn't actually a person, but a team/group/company.

 

Information for all:

We (Amiga club) got and get a lot of e-mails because of the Amibench advertisement.
It's hard to answer all immediately, so don't be angry if you have to wait up to one
day. And don't be surprised if not the same member answers all your questions.
We got a few pieces of all models, the are exhibits and full working an tested. We
still have at least one of each model.
Payment:
- Fastest way is "Western Union" - you have to go to your post office or bank (ask
if they work for Western Union), you pay there the money, you will get an transfer
code, you send this code to me, I will go to my post office, take the money out
there and send in the same time the stuff to you.
- Send money or an cheque in an registered letter to my address. Second fastest way.
- PayPal: I don't like it, but much people asked for this way and I opened just "for
you" an account. Important is, that you have to pay the money from your bank account
or PayPal account. If you pay it from your credit card, I have no way to get that
money, because I don't have an credit card for myself - that's the rules vom PayPal.
I don't anderstand that, but so it is. And if you send the money by PayPal, your
order will leave us just after the money is transfered to my account - that needs
5-7 days. Slowliest way.

Address:

##REMOVED##

Account:

##REMOVED##

- I hope my english is not too bad ! Thanks!

Just a FYI though, NEVER USE WESTERN UNION. It is as safe as sending money unrecorded in an envelope.

[NightShade737]

I checked and apparently the cards are new, but used to show to customers (working in a machine).

[NightShade737]

I contacted him and told him how to set up a Premium Account on Paypal, so he can now accept creditcard transactions through Paypal.

To be honest, if he was intending on just stealing peoples money, I wouldn't want to go up against credit card companies and PayPal.

[NightShade737]

Ordered a CSPPC 233/060 with 128MB RAM and paid by credit-card through PayPal, so mine should be a tad faster...

[NightShade737]

Do read the actual thread before commenting, it saves you time, and it saves us time repeating ourselves.

[NightShade737]

Any idea roughly on the CPU useage for say the UW-SCSI on the Cyberstorm?

[NightShade737]

Ooh, thats nice to know. So not only is it Xx50 times faster, it also uses alot less load.

[NightShade737]

The flyer would achieve a maximum of 16.6MBps in PIO mode 4 (or 5 depending on how you look at it) and would use 80-99% CPU time. The UW-SCSI on these accellerators is 40MBps max and as said before, uses about 20% CPU time maximum. So yes, it is quite a bit slower and less useful generally.

[NightShade737]

Yeah, thats pretty much why I said Max.
Currently my drive scores about 1.5MBps, so when my CSPPC arrives and my new UWSCSI drive I think I may be somewhat pleased

[NightShade737]

Well I paid by Credit Card, so the CC company would chase after him on my behalf...

[NightShade737]

He has run out of the higher end BlizPPC cards now, but in general he didn't take more than a few days to answer peoples e-mails.

[NightShade737]

He's normally away on Saturdays, so dont expect a response then, but normally, yeah a short amount of time.

Oh yeah, BVs Whoops.

[NightShade737]

Yeah, I would call 5 working days optimistic. It has taken up to 3 months for some parcels to arrive when I ordered from abroad.