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Re: help: what to do with a misleading ebaY purchase?
« on: May 11, 2005, 08:09:53 AM »
I guess I've been had too. Recently I won an item which the description said

"1 amiga ram expansion board, this has just been removed out of a working Commodore Amiga 500. I think it is min 2 meg but not 100% sure it may possibly even be 4 meg or if extremely lucky 8 meg. It has a switch to turn off memory for compatability for some of the games that wont work under extended RAM. As I say it has just been pulled from a working Amiga 500 and with the switch on and off it booted up and ran rick dangerous 2 in either mode it was switched at. The free mem displayed on screen also was significant and is visibly shown on the amiga desktop when booted up in either mode. This fits in the underside trapdoor found on the Amiga and can only be inserted one way as the connector is offset to oneside."

And what I got was this.

http://abone.netone.com.tr/ardaka/zydec_amram500+.jpg
http://abone.netone.com.tr/ardaka/zydec_amram500+-back.jpg

which looks pretty similar to a regular 512k expansion :

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=1091

I can't try it because I don't have an amiga 500 at the moment. But judging from the x256 chips there's no way this can be a 2mb + expansion.

also the shipping price was outrageous. I paid 9 uk pounds (thinking the shipping rates in uk was quite high). but :
http://abone.netone.com.tr/ardaka/envelope.jpg

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Re: help: what to do with a misleading ebaY purchase?
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2005, 12:55:59 PM »
thanks sarah&effy, I sent him the link and I asked him to explain why I paid 9 pounds for the shipping (ah after years, I need the pound sign on my kybrd, unfortunately it's been replaced by €). he already left a positive feedback for me, but if he doesn't have a good excuse for the overcharge or return the difference, I'll definitely not leave a positive feedback.

I wouldn't be so pissed if the board was actually a 2mb or 8mb expansion though ...
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Re: help: what to do with a misleading ebaY purchase?
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2005, 11:29:47 AM »
Well, I got 6.13 uk ps back from him/her after my complaint, so the it's fine by me now. I left him/her a positive feedback.
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