My offer is $0.01, but only if you pay shipping. Hard to believe you actually got a serious offer. HaHa
Sent from my iPhone Robert Harrison b...@tds.net > On Mar 26, 2021, at 2:56 PM, Richard Pope via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > Ali, > You are probably correct but it was just something that i have done in the > past to get a HDD working by combining two to make one. Just my two cents. > Anyone want to buy a used, I believe it stills works, ANTIQUE and COLLECTABLE > 100MB SCSI 1 HDD for say $1,000,000 OBO? > GOD Bless and Thanks, > rich! > > On 3/26/2021 10:14 AM, Ali wrote: >>> Rob, >>> Could it be that they get identical drives that don't work. Some >>> of >>> the drives have bad platters or heads and other drives have bad >>> interface cards but the platters and heads are ok. So they take the >>> good >>> cards and put them on the drives with the good platters and heads and >>> then label the drive as being refurbished? >>> GOD Bless and Thanks, >>> rich! >>> P.S. I feel that around $300 USD is on high side unless they plan on >>> hand delivering the item to the client! >> No, >> >> Refurbished to these guys means "let's roll the dice". 95% of the time >> things will work (HDD being much more risk of course but boards, etc. >> generally work). If it works great they just made enough money to cover >> their entire inventory of refurbished "whatever". If it doesn't they are >> just out the cost of the shipping which as someone pointed out was about 7 >> Euros. >> >> Sometimes they try to get clever. I bought two Seagate HDDs (ST32550Ns I >> believe) form a seller in northern California "refurbished and guaranteed" >> off of eBay. Each drive cost $10. Shipping to southern California was at $35 >> for UPS ground. Given that the total price (price + S&H) was ok for me I >> went ahead. Both drives arrived DOA. Seller tried refunding just the price >> of the drives and tried to keep the S&H. Pretty clever scam and would work >> on most people as the seller refunded the cost of the item and S&H is >> "non-refundable". S&H was probably under $10 so they would have made $25 to >> have me dispose of their junk. Again thank goodness for eBay money back >> guarantee - eBay refunded the rest of the money post haste. >> >> I know of one seller who I trust to actually test before shipping and that’s >> about it. >> >> -Ali >> >> >
