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eBay's purchase protection program doesn't really work!

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DiTBho:

--- Quote from: wraper on September 26, 2023, 06:55:11 am ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on September 26, 2023, 02:27:34 am ---eBay and PayPal have parted ways as far as I've understood, so yeah there is no real benefit using PayPal now.

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If you paid by paypal you still have their own purchase protection.

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Yes, if you paid by Paypal but outside eBay you still have their own purchase protection.

When I tried to make a complaint on Paypal, they replied that it cannot be done for purchases made on eBay and paid for through them, you have to make a complaint on eBay.

It used to be possible, but not anymore, don't ask me why  :palm:

DiTBho:

--- Quote from: magic on September 26, 2023, 04:59:42 am ---Lesson: erase your disks properly before selling them as new.

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On three of the HDDs that were supposed to be "new, never used" to the seller-dude I found a few german comics scanned albums and a couple of movie, not even good entertainment quality like, but that's it, personal tastes, and a comprehensive documentary on the birds of Baviera Bird Watching? with route maps, several videos and photos that look like they were uploaded from an old smartphone and things like that.

It seems for "wild adventures" ... I just hope those discs were used anywhere that wasn't mobile, rather than in an camper, facing many obstacles along the way (I wish I could open them to check the condition of the bearings... too bad it can't be done without damage).

I don't have any problems, usually I don't even check the content. When a disk arrives, I check how many hours it has worked on, how many errors it has reported, then I test it with badblocks, finally I test it with programs that I have written to also understand how compatible the firmware and how fast IOP responeses are with embedded devices I work on.

When I sell a disk, in the same way I run badblocks to check that everything is ok, and in this operation the entire contents of are also deleted.

DiTBho:

--- Quote from: magic on September 26, 2023, 04:59:42 am ---yes, I buy used disks

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Where do you buy your disks?


--- Quote from: magic on September 26, 2023, 04:59:42 am ---A good deal cheaper than new and still almost as good. HDD failures are a random thing, the only benefit of buying new is warranty and that matters only if it dies completely in the first two years

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This is damn true especially for SAS, SCSI and FC.

Fraser:
A word of warning ….

If you buy used hard disk drives. I recommend that you do not attempt to recover deleted material from them. If you find something highly illegal you are then faced with deciding whether to report it and also the potential contamination of your computers drive with the recovered material. It is better to carry out a high grade erasure of the hard disk and remain in ignorance as to what it used to contain. The same applies to used laptops. You can really open a can of worms by recovering deleted data. I speak as a data forensics practitioner. The SMART data provides all you need to know about the health of a drive. Unsanctioned data recovery is just snooping and it can lead to a world of trouble if you find something you wish you had not.

Fraser

nctnico:

--- Quote from: DiTBho on September 25, 2023, 01:22:48 pm ---over ~6000 hours (still with NTFS files in them, not even deleted)

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Great! Any Bitcoins on these disks?  >:D

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