> > Over years of experience buying used electronics, there are only 3 > grades: Tested, which means "we turned it on and anything we found > unworking is unlikely to be detected by the buyer within the return > period" >
I once bought a used monitor at a computer show, those were the days a color monitor would still cost you $1,000 or more. The seller wanted $150 for it and I asked him if it would still work. He said "we tested all of them yesterday", so I thought that should be fine then. Looking at the 9 pin d-sub plug, I noticed 1 pin was missing/broken off. I showed the guy and he then lowered his price to $25. OK, so I bought it, came home and of course it didn't work. Opened it up, found loose wires and other traces that clearly indicated someone had tried to fix it. I hooked up everything where it belonged to, put a new d-sub plug on it and bingo, a beautiful color EGA screen for $25 :-). Later I found that it was actually a multi-sync monitor supporting anything from hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA and SVGA with 800x600 resolution which was really good at that time as VGA was only 640x480. Anyway, to me "tested" doesn't guarantee that it works. Maybe they tested it and found that it didn't work, you never know. Michel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
