In that case, Sir: REPORT IT TO EBAY. IF (and I know this won't happen)
they refuse to do anything about your complaints then come here. But
you never said that you have reported it to them. Or the BBB. Do those
things first please.
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On Tuesday, July
on 7/14/03 10:48 PM, Illovox Media at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on 7/14/03 9:47 PM, James Rohde at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.insanely-great.com/features/020215.html
link is dead
It works for me.
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I have bought several powerbooks on ebay from here in the UK. There is a big
scam (certainly with ebay in the UK ) where people list big ticket items
including PowerBooks, and then offer to sell them outside the auction with
lines in the advert like contact me to buy this. Many of these seem to
Dan K wrote:
Joaquim wrote:
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that most
Powerbook sales are scams? Why doesn't Ebay or the police do anything
about this?
Most PowerBook sales are scams? I bought recently 2 Pismos and a Lombard
on eBay. While still awaiting
Ryan Coleman wrote:
On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 10:58 PM, Dan K wrote:
Joaquim wrote:
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that most
Powerbook sales are scams? Why doesn't Ebay or the police do anything
about this?
Most PowerBook sales are scams? I bought recently 2
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 08:45 AM, G-Books wrote:
I would have to agree with Chris. I reported the 'Buy Information...'
items to ebay UK, and they didn't seem to be too bothered. Although I
would concede that in those cases, the item description is strictly
correct and no ostensible fraud
I wandered onto eBay three weeks ago as a newbie, bought a bargain Ti
powerbook, never saw the goods
and lost all my money. Am I responsible for not knowing how things
worked, or the website for not warning me?
Since then I have found scams on the powerbook list (UK) every day.
They become
on 7/14/03 11:08 PM, Ryan Coleman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In that case, Sir: REPORT IT TO EBAY. IF (and I know this won't happen)
they refuse to do anything about your complaints then come here. But
you never said that you have reported it to them. Or the BBB. Do those
things first
Ya see, Ryan? That's two of us now seeing the same thing. So you've had
groovy experiences there. So have I. Doesn't mean crooks aren't all over
the thing.
Why do you think the DOJ is investigating?
on 7/15/03 12:12 AM, Christopher Hack at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have bought several
on 7/15/03 1:48 AM, jdc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that most
Powerbook sales are scams? Why doesn't Ebay or the police do anything
about this?
Most PowerBook sales are scams? I bought recently 2 Pismos and a Lombard
on eBay.
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 11:25, Michel Treisman wrote:
I wandered onto eBay three weeks ago as a newbie, bought a bargain Ti
powerbook, never saw the goods
and lost all my money.
The same thing also happened to me twice.
Joaquim
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Well, Ryan, that's four accounts to the negative as well as positive. And I
can report a 1400 I bought out of CA had a past police are interested
in...hard fact. EBAY did nothing. NOTHING. In fact, neither did the
police...
on 7/15/03 3:00 AM, Tom Burke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would
Ryan...5
on 7/15/03 3:25 AM, Michel Treisman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wandered onto eBay three weeks ago as a newbie, bought a bargain Ti
powerbook, never saw the goods
and lost all my money. Am I responsible for not knowing how things
worked, or the website for not warning me?
6 people scammed...
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From: Illovox Media [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 03:43:46 -0700
To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Buying a new PowerBook
on 7/14/03 11:25 PM, Bruce Mitchell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on 7/14/03 10:48 PM, Illovox Media at
Here's a challenge:
I have an iBook 600 and a buddy has a 3400c 200. His unit has InfraRed, my
iBook does not. I bought a MadsonLine IRDA to USB dongle. My unit
recognizes it in X.2.3. Great so far. But HOW the HECK do I get the 3400c
and the iBook to see each other via IRDA? Can't figure
Illovox Media wrote:
Ryan...5
Got my Pismo on ebay 2 years ago this week...Fantastic Deal...BUT I was
lucky enough to be able to pick it up and pay in personThe seller lived
about 200 miles east of me but was about 20 minutes away from my son's
apt...Drove down, picked it up and made a
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 11:49, Joaquim Carvalho wrote:
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 11:25, Michel Treisman wrote:
I wandered onto eBay three weeks ago as a newbie, bought a bargain Ti
powerbook, never saw the goods
and lost all my money.
The same thing also happened to me twice.
Joaquim
I
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 13:10, K. wrote:
I would rather buy from
the LEM Swap list and have done so a few times, with much better results..
What is the LEM Swap list?
Anyone knows of a good web place/mailing list to sell and buy used
Powerbooks (preferably in Europe)
Joaquim
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On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 03:50 AM, Illovox Media wrote:
Well, Ryan, that's four accounts to the negative as well as positive.
And I
can report a 1400 I bought out of CA had a past police are interested
in...hard fact. EBAY did nothing. NOTHING. In fact, neither did the
police...
If
on 15/07/03 08:32, Joaquim Carvalho at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 13:10, K. wrote:
I would rather buy from
the LEM Swap list and have done so a few times, with much better results..
What is the LEM Swap list?
Anyone knows of a good web place/mailing list to sell and buy
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 03:25 AM, Michel Treisman wrote:
I wandered onto eBay three weeks ago as a newbie, bought a bargain Ti
powerbook, never saw the goods
and lost all my money. Am I responsible for not knowing how things
worked, or the website for not warning me?
I know it sounds
on 15/07/03 13:32, Joaquim Carvalho at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone knows of a good web place/mailing list to sell and buy used
Powerbooks (preferably in Europe)
Macads ?
I buy and sell Powerbooks but not in volume.
Best wishes
Malcolm Cornelius - The Powerbook Fanatic
3. suggest you will pay in cash and collect the item (again even if you
don't intend to, this will flush out the fraudsters who will immediately say
it is not possible. You can do this even if the item is overseas by saying
something like I will be in your country on a business trip next week
Dear Wiebe,
Try the suggestion below, which I have NOT attempted myself, but read
about last week on the Macintouch Web site. There are lots of
testimonials there from people who've tried it and found that it
solved their battery problems. Good luck!
Nancy
From Rob Wyatt on Macintouch: I'd
Put me in on the positive side for eBay.
In several thousand transactions now as seller and buyer, my wife and I
have had no seller frauds and about 5-10% non-paying bidders. (That doesn't
wind up being a big problem - eBay will pay back selling fees they charged
if the buyer defaults, and if
on 7/15/03 11:17 AM, David Taylor at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can echo the same experience with dozens of happy purchases and sales
of fairly major technology items.
The important thing is the obvious one: in 99% of cases if the deal
sounds too good to be true, it is. To counter that I
Whenever I purchase an expensive item on Ebay I ask if I can use a postal
money order. If they refuse to take it, I take my purchase elsewhere.
If you pay with a postal money order and get scammed, it becomes a federal
offense and the United States Postal Inspection Service then becomes
involved.
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 03:42 am, Illovox Media wrote:
Man are you presumptuous. I have, and they do nothing. Did nothing when
even my EBAY ID was hijacked. Had to find their telephone number (try that
Mr. Know It All) and finally with enough yelling they did something about
that. IE,
==0
I contacted ebay fraud office and told them about these scams but they have
done nothing. Best of luck.
Chris
==0
Recently I got one of those scam e-mails.
Dear sir, i saw that you bidd on Apple iBook 900MHz and i want to offer you the same one for a
On 07/15/2003 2:45 AM, Illovox Media apparently wrote:
on 7/14/03 9:47 PM, James Rohde at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.insanely-great.com/features/020215.html
link is dead
They apparently changed the name slightly - try this link:
http://www.insanelygreatmac.com/features/020215.html
==0
The really sad thing that I did notice
though, was people bidding up the price on auctions so high that they
might as well buy at a retail used/refurbished store. Foolish.
Cheers - Steve K
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Steve:
Some of us live where there are no
days if it's Fedex or UPS. S people who say no foreign bids or no
shipping to Canada are really shooting themselves in the foot...excluding
I almost always specify US bidders only but I almost always make an
exception if a Canadian bidder asks me to. I almost never allow Western
European
No one should expect Ebay to make a market in goods where
robust markets already exist. In the case of current models,
web and brick retailers do that. What common sense support
can there be to expect a significant discount from the
existing markets when distribution is robust? Scooping
up?
No one should expect Ebay to make a market in goods where
robust markets already exist. In the case of current models,
However it provides a convenient portal for small businesses. In that
sense it is making an online market for small vendors who would
otherwise only have their bricks'n'mortar
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 09:13 AM, Lewin A.R.W. Edwards wrote:
The reason I dislike Canadian sales is the extra paperwork. I don't
even
know how to generate the right paperwork to send things UPS, so I
always
have to use USPS to send these items.
Hopefully you shouldn't have to fill out
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 13:59, Steve Kidd wrote:
But with all this chatter about how most of the Powerbooks on Ebay are
scams, I decided to take a look for myself. After reviewing more than
100 Powerbook listings, I've found four that were obvious scams.
The real problem are the non obvious
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 16:17, David Taylor wrote:
The only other significant thing that I have learned is not to sell to
anyone outside the USA.
Is this list US specific?
Joaquim
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On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 17:13, Lewin A.R.W. Edwards wrote:
days if it's Fedex or UPS. S people who say no foreign bids or no
shipping to Canada are really shooting themselves in the foot...excluding
I almost always specify US bidders only but I almost always make an
exception if a
Joaquim Carvalho wrote:
I did find half a dozen or so that seemed suspicious, but as someone
pointed out, requesting escrow is a sure way to weed out someone who
doesn't intend to send you the product.
Many honest sellers do not accept Escrow.
Too bad, those are honest sellers I won't deal
Michel Treisman wrote:
I wandered onto eBay three weeks ago as a newbie, bought a bargain Ti
powerbook, never saw the goods and lost all my money. Am I
responsible for not knowing how things worked, or the website
for not warning me?
then Steve Kidd wrote:
I know it sounds cruel, but to a
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 19:31, Lewin A.R.W. Edwards wrote:
exception if a Canadian bidder asks me to. I almost never allow Western
European bidders, and I never allow Far East destinations. For a few
What is the reason you don't sell to Europe?
Long distance,
Distance doesn't really
on 7/15/03 8:51 AM, macnifico at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, yes, they do investigate, although they are so swamped with work
that most of the time they are unable to write back.
Investigations swamped with work... That says it all.
R
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expensive shipping (meaning it's really expensive for me
Not much more expensive than in-Europe shipping.
What difference does that make to me? I'm in the United States. Intra-US
shipping is cheap and, by and large, reliable. USPS is inexpensive, VERY
reliable and has never damaged or lost
on 7/15/03 9:09 AM, James Rohde at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 07/15/2003 2:45 AM, Illovox Media apparently wrote:
on 7/14/03 9:47 PM, James Rohde at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.insanely-great.com/features/020215.html
link is dead
They apparently changed the name slightly -
on 7/15/03 10:16 AM, Tom Meade at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No one should expect Ebay to make a market in goods where
robust markets already exist. In the case of current models,
web and brick retailers do that. What common sense support
can there be to expect a significant discount from the
on 14-07-2003 16:44, G-Books at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apparently it's something that LG has addressed, but obviously not soon
enough for those of us who were blessed with LG mechanisms. I think the
total
damage was around $100 for a new mechanism, and it only took about 3 minutes
to
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 11:12 AM, G-Books wrote:
Whenever I purchase an expensive item on Ebay I ask if I can use a
postal
money order. If they refuse to take it, I take my purchase elsewhere.
If you pay with a postal money order and get scammed, it becomes a
federal
offense and the
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 03:11 PM, Joaquim Carvalho wrote:
extra expense and hassle in collecting money, ...
Paypal couldn't be simpler.
Western Union is also a good choice, if sender and receiver know and
trust each other.
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Does anyone know of any documents that illustrate the proper procedure
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Subject: Re: Pismo DVD drive not recognizing CD's
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:47:58 -0500
From: James Rohde [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[snip]
Pete, you possibly have the dreaded 'LG dying' problem (which I had
shortly before my original warranty ran out). The LG model of drive
Hi,
The screen illumination on my tiBook appears visibly darker in a region roughly the
size of a postage stamp located at the very bottom center of the screen just above the
sleep LED. It was not like this when it was new.
Using a straightedge, I detect no mechanical distortion of the screen,
My Pismo is 29 months old. I bought it through ebay 24 months ago this week. It had
the Matsushita drive in it. That drive died in Jan. 03. Called AppleCare and that
repaired it with an LG drive that has worked flawlessly since thenI questioned
Apple about the supposed LG problems and was
Does anyone know if this will or will not work in the Mac? I would have
it in an external case that goes with a Sony iLink CDRW (Firewire).
Is the Sony DWU10A (4X) compatible?
I have a list of items at my local parts reseller (blocks from home)
starting at $180 (TDK AID+420N) to $330 (Sony
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