Another ebay problem :(

[^^Gord^^]

I've worked in IT for ten years and I doubt I've actually had hands on to 20,000 PCs despite working for several large multinationals!

He said i must have static shocked it I went to the trouble of buying one of those annoying grounding bracelets and this was the first time i used it.

Absolute rubbish. I have no idea how many servers I've build and worked on over the years but it will be in four figures. I've NEVER used a grounding bracelet and not had a single part die on me due to static. In fact, I can only think of one CPU failure in ten years.

My money is on the guy not fitting the HSF correctly, smoking his original CPU and then the one he bought off you.

 

[Third Opinion]

If he was two years ago the biggest CPU retailer then why the hell is he buying secondhand tat off ebay to fix his clients machines. No doubt he intended to charge them for a brand new processor.

The guy sounds like a shark to me, tell him where to get off.

 

[krisboats]

Unfortunately i don't have a board to test it in, the board it was in is at my parents house and they've posted it off for me already.

I know its a bit dishonest but the paypal 35 day dispute time limit runs out on thursday, so if he were to get arsey about it am i right in thinking he couldn't claim for his money back? 15 days after that as well the ebay item not received/significantly not as described function runs out too.

Do i just say something along the lines of i'm taking it to the computer shop tomorrow/wednesday and then a week or so later tell him they couldn't find whats wrong so sent it off to AMD? A week later i could say i've got it back and then thats both the time limits up, i can just say something like AMD said it was burnt out or something. I know its dishonest but reading back through this topic i think its pretty clear he's not telling the truth either.

First he tries fitting it to his nephews computer but it didn't fix the problem. Then two weeks later he's magically had it re-sealed and opens it for the first time on his anti-static table with antistatic bands and anti static vacuums etc. and he tried it in 2 other working motherboards that were obviously working because he tried them with his other working 754 chip.

I just don't want to say to him something like "sorry, it was working when sent out and seeing as you fitted it to a faulty computer i can't be held responsible for it being damaged now", then have him file a strike against me and me lose my ebay account.

Moral decisions suck

 

[Solari]

I think if I was to sell something like this on eBay, I'd take a video of the system working, powerdown, chip removal under antistatic procedure and close up of serial number etc. So many morons out there that it'd be the only way to prove things :S

I don't trust eBay at all these days.

 

[barnettgs]

EDIT: Never mind!

 

[SB118]

If he put a working CPU into a faulty machine there's every chance that machine could render your working cpu useless too.

4tw.

Tell him he's cooked it by sticking it in a chipkiller motherboard.