eBay Auction

Dave Rave · Post by **Dave Rave** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:31 am

don't you just have days when you just can't resist baiting someone

it starts with the auction

and I politely wrote him
"it has onboard ata66 controller"
"but it ain't raid"

it's gone seriously downhill from there.

Dave Rave · Post by **Dave Rave** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:38 am

so, anyway .....

eBay Seller wrote:Yes it has raid.

DaveRave wrote:uhm, just quietly, no it don't
I have five of them.....

eBay Seller wrote:I have a board that is a bp6 with 4 ide connections on it which is raid
and I am in the computer industry.

DaveRave wrote: http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/pro ... &model=109
nup, plain ata66
http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/pro ... &model=111
the you beaut better and it's not raid either
don't tell me you are a help desk person, please!
that would be sooooooo typical that you won't listen to someone who
knows what he is talking about.

eBay Seller wrote:Buy this motherboard and see if it is not raid I will refund your money
in full if it is not.

well, after that, I wrote him and said "send the check" and posted this up.
what a nice way to end Sydney's new hottest March day ever !!! (damn it's hot)

Dave Rave · Post by **Dave Rave** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:48 am

and just to upset him further, I have bid on the item
so Kuun, I'll get it shipped to you.
let me know where ??

24seven · Post by **24seven** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 12:11 pm

*David sends an email also saying it hasnt got raid.
See what he spouts to me.

Hi,
I believe you have made a slight error when advertising this product. The board in question, Abit BP6, does not have raid, and was never made with raid.
The board does however have an extra IDE controller with ata66 capabilities allowing people to get better transfer speeds than using the BX chipset that the board uses. The extra controller uses a Highpoint HPT360 chipset, which is not a raid chipset. This explains the extra two IDE headers on the motherboard, which happen to be the white ones.

I feel it is unfair to advertise the board as having raid when it does not.

Regards
David Baker

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 2:37 pm

i sent one too

Dave Rave · Post by **Dave Rave** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 5:07 pm

eBay Seller wrote:Ok then you caught us out we glued 2 extra ide ports on the board to
make it look like it has raid.

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 1:02 am

hahahaha

he's a moron... he thinks that if it has 4 ide ports than it's a raid motherboard

what a moron

Dave Rave · Post by **Dave Rave** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 6:28 am

He also has an Abit KA7-100 board
apparently this is now Slot 1 with raid
though the spec sheet says Slot A with 4 ide ports.

I've been outbid on the bp6, £50GBP, urk....
for a raid board, maybe, that's a lot of mooler for an old bp6

Dave Rave · Post by **Dave Rave** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 6:36 am

ppl bid on the bp6.... so I bid heaps. £543.21 and got it for £62
asked him how much with the £62 rebate for being right about the raid, he hasn't responded yet.

more on the Abit KA7

Dave Rave wrote:man, you got to do more research.
4 ide ports does NOT equal Raid.
the KA7 is not a Slot 1 board,
it's Slot A

it has 4 ide ports, like the BP6, but NOT raid.

If you keep this up, maybe eBay should be told you aren't that good a
seller and should be revoked

eBay Seller wrote:You are definitely wrong there mate the ka7 is definitely a slot 1.
I know the difference between a slot 1 and slot a .

Dave Rave wrote:are you going to quit while you are so far behind or make yourself look worse ?
how can you tell a slot from a slot ?
http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/legacy.php
you already owe me a free bp6

he's only been eBay registered since Feb
I think he needs de-registering

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:01 pm

eBay Seller wrote:I have a board that is a bp6 with 4 ide connections on it which is raid and I am in the computer industry.

Right. So he's selling a computer component on eBay. I suppose that means he's in the computer industry. Loosely. Well sort of. If you think about it in a certain way. But don't think too hard about the definitions of "computer" and "industry". Or about anything else for that matter.

As always with eBay, I suppose it's a case of caveat emptor.

davd_bob · Post by **davd_bob** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:54 pm

Dave Rave,
If he pays up are you conna consider "mentoring" the poor guy. He may actually be trying but just has to much pride to say he doesn't know something.

Or maybe you can tell him, "Smee again goan..."

Dave Rave · Post by **Dave Rave** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:53 pm

na-uh
I already "smee'd" the re-list of the board.
he never responded ;-( to my reuest for a total, just posted the auction again, so I bid on it again.

davd_bob · Post by **davd_bob** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:58 pm

rolf

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 1:24 am

lol

he's not gonna like you

24seven · Post by **24seven** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 4:03 pm

Did he give you any bad feed back?
Have you sent him a link to this place yet?
Tell him to come on IRC and we can all lay in to him.

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 4:30 pm

24seven wrote:Did he give you any bad feed back?
Have you sent him a link to this place yet?
Tell him to come on IRC and we can all lay in to him.

Send the kids to their rooms; this won't be pretty!

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 5:24 pm

OH YEAH! i can't wait!!!

EXCITEMENT!

Kuun

hyperspace wrote:
24seven wrote:Did he give you any bad feed back?
Have you sent him a link to this place yet?
Tell him to come on IRC and we can all lay in to him.
Send the kids to their rooms; this won't be pretty!

davd_bob · Post by **davd_bob** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 5:47 pm

Hey guys,
don't get too caught up in the moment here. If this guy give bad feedback, it will stay on your record even if he is wrong.

So far my only bad experience is ...when I got my BP6. it was advertised as having 256meg but only had 128. I e-mailed the guy and he said he would send a 256 but so far i havent heard back since giving my address.

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 8:51 am

how long ago was this ?

davd_bob · Post by **davd_bob** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 11:54 am

about a month.
i moved 2 weeks ago and really haven't followed up. gave him the new address...we were already checking the mail there before then.

Dave Rave · Post by **Dave Rave** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 11:56 am

I'm asking eBay questions about mis-representation of goods
non-delivery of items after winning and "paying" for them
etc.....

I think I pointed him here..... bbak
yup, I pointed him to http://www.bp6.com
but he hasn't read the links to abit-usa yet, otherwise he'd have changed the +RAID to something more appropriate.
don't forget the KA7 board with raid and slot 1 !!!!
some1 has been sold a dud and they should not be happy

bluliz · Post by **bluliz** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 3:05 pm

he's put another bp6 on but this time he has put 4xIDE.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... gory=44941

how many bp6s does this guy own?

24seven · Post by **24seven** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 7:40 pm

That’s looking more like it.
Shame he hasn’t added a link to here on the auction, he would actually benefit from that.
Dave Rave, what’s the latest you have to report?

bluliz · Post by **bluliz** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 8:18 pm

he probly doesn't like us.

brought my bp6 off ebay, should come middle of next week, cant wait

24seven · Post by **24seven** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 5:30 pm

brought my bp6 off ebay, should come middle of next week, cant wait

Good work!