German Ebayer - amix68k

[therail]

i agree with odin on this one. jimbo, you have acted like a loon in this thread. i dont think your attitude is helping you out here. sure amix68k may have done wrong (and with the zip ram maybe). but at the end of the day you won a dodgy picasso iv auction that said untested - so what the hell do you expect? i wouldn't have bidded on it, and no-one else would have unless they are a techie of some sort. you were trying to get gold from {bleep}e and it backfired on you and now your trying to get your revenge. the same thing happened to me on ebay (buying risky untested items that backfired), but i didn't go on a witch hunt and harass the seller, i just got on with it. i dont agree with what amix68k has done though, if intential.

[jimbo100]

Don't think I follow you?  Who is odin?

Oh of course I should just cop the loss, all my fault, how silly of me :crazy:

I am not interested in revenge, just on fair play!  Untested doesn't mean dead, dead means dead!  :pissed:

If I have bought the PIV card on it's own and it was dead, your right I would have moved on.  What pisses me off is this guy saw I was pretty desperate for an A4000 board and offered me one he couldn't offload to another eBayer and offered me it.  

I asked him if it was ok and worked and gave the usual answers.  It wasn't an eBay auction!  Too right I am pissed off about that and will continue to chase it till time ends.  If your happy with shonky amiga sellers, go right ahead and accept it, me I prefer to chase them out of the game.

Evil Prevails When Good Men Fail To Act !

[therail]

no. untested means there is a 50/50 chance of it being dead. you buy at your own risk, no one else's fault. for example, i bought a c64 that was untested, and when i received it, it didn't work. no big deal, i just sell it on as spares and cut my losses. the a4000 board is another matter. if that was intential, then he is in the wrong - but it may just be an accident or a miss understanding. it maybe possible that it was working when he had it. another factor is your childish attitude and ranting, it aint helping you and maybe people here aren't taking you as seriously as maybe what the situation suggests. hence why most of this thread have mainly yours and amix68k's posts.

[jimbo100]

So MrRail, what should I have I done?

[odin]

Evil Prevails When Good Men Fail To Act !

Because Bold And All Caps Give You That Winning Edge ;-).

Seriously though, I can't judge whether something fishy was going on with that A4k. What I can judge however is the apparent strange (melodramatic...) way of communicating both parties seem to have built up. A forum is hardly the perfect place to solve private quarrels =).

[Zac67]

@jimbo

Hmm - I've been looking quite a bit, but it seems ebay(.de & .com) has dropped that definition. They only rant about 'new', but 'used' is barely mentioned...

It seems, therail does have a point afterall.  ;-)

[amix68k]

As jimbo does not want to report here:
Paypal decided (on facts) that jimbo is wrong. According to jimbos recent argumentation, paypal is a bunch of liars and betrayers now, but they had the whole facts and decided objective.

This is my last posting on amiga.org

Farewell, goodbye and sorry for listening.

[coldfish]

tch tch,

This is what happens when unrealistic expectations get taken advantage of.

Purchasing old crap over the internet and expecting it to work?

Pay -no more- than you would, knowing it to be broken.

[BastiBS]

Finished!

[guru-666]

@amix68k
good riddance, because IMO you did have all the gear to test the cards, and odd are very high that you KNEW that card did not work.  Instead of selling the card as dead you claimed they are "NOT tested"...pretty much means the ARE dead, but a weak and lame way tell that to people.  I don't  believe you... you had the card and tested the card, anybody who got one would....
on the other hand the buy should have know better... not tested does mean dead... and you bought 2 things from this amix68k guy.... you could have figured out how he does business the first time! Not test = dead.

fact is amix68k is a sleazy eBay seller, but he did use a disclaimer.  BTW most ppl do this....sometime you see "not DOA", but usually you also find "because of it age I sell this item as is"

just give the guy negative feedback and let other know that he just sells broken stuff.

[odin]

fact is amix68k is a sleazy eBay seller, but he did use a disclaimer.  BTW most ppl do this....sometime you see "not DOA", but usually you also find "because of it age I sell this item as is"

I'll bite, how is it a fact? The only people who can judge here are the ones affected and everybody else passing judgement basically is basing that on the word of the seller & buyer. It's just pointless and the case has been closed.

[jimbo100]

amix68k wrote:
As jimbo does not want to report here:
Paypal decided (on facts) that jimbo is wrong. According to jimbos recent argumentation, paypal is a bunch of liars and betrayers now, but they had the whole facts and decided objective.

This is my last posting on amiga.org

Yes I am more than happy to report.  Yes Paypal paid the money to this parasite but we all know how that works and how much of a joke that eBay and Paypal protection is.

Not sure how Paypal made that decision since they ignored every email I sent to them and didn't reply or ask for any information.  You could hardly call it an investigation, more like sweeping under the carpet.

The boards I sent to Amiga France and JJ to have a look and he has replied to me, his response was;

"Hello,

Only bad news, i do not win at any time.
I cannot fix any boards
Spent a lot of time for no results."

So there you have it, both boards dead as a doornail and no hope of any life even for Amiga France.  What does it mean, lot of grief, negative feedback for me and $450+ down the drain!!

amix68k is a dishonest parasite giving other Amiga sellers a bad name but karma will sort him out I am sure!  

[Ancalimon]

God I can't believe people are selling their broken Amiga gear for hundreds of dollars while I gave away my "working" BlizzardPPC to a friend for free back in the day they were still being produced!

[therail]

just to hammer home my earlier statement. buying items untested really is 50/50 if you research/study well. if you are buying stuff "untested" you have to look at all the angles. is the thing in good/bad condition? is the item repairable and easily repairable? would it be expensive to repair (or if you can repair it yourself)? is this item rare (would the replacement parts be easy/cheap to obtain)? stuff like that. maybe look on their feedback too as a quide. see, when i buy "untested" goods on ebay, i make sure not to spend too much - as it would be a huge gamble. the following 2 i have bought "untested" recently on ebay:

zx spectrum 128k bought untested £20 - did not work properly. sold it as parts (i think the guy i sold it to may of even repaired it!

commodore 64 bought untested 99p! - works fully! nice package! although the brown case is battered a little. i think i may sell it though to get a profit(!) and more room.

so the above is the last 2 items i bought on ebay untested. and i got a 50% success rate! and i didn't spend over £20.

right, the next point i'd like to make is about jimbo100 behavior/language thru this. obviously the guy isn't happy. maybe this seller is in the wrong... who exactly knows?! its exactly that! no-one really knows because of the over the top attitude of both jimbo100 and the seller (forgotten his name). sorry, but if jimbo100 had maybe toned down his volume a bit and calmed down we (and possibly paypal/ebay) may have taken him more serious and maybe even got to the bottom of this with more discussion and facts instead of him shouting the odds and quoting the bible/whatever. thats my opinion!

[therail]

@jimbo100

the only thing i would suggest to you is sell the picasso on as broken/spares and cut your losses.

there is probablt some other stuff i forgot to mention but i cant be arsed to remember!

[Blinx123]

I would suggest everyone reading this:

Never buy from this guy. He is very famous in all parts of Continental-Europe for selling dead items and totaly crap. I feel very sorry for all his victims.

BTW: The best thing to handle things with him would be good old western style. Shoot him with a gun or hit him with a crowbar;-)

Edit: Ah yes,I forgot. I read the same thing I read here in about 5 different forums concerning things someone bought from him.