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Ethics of declaring repairs during resale

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james_s:
As is typical, ebay is heavily stacked in favor of the buyer. Most buyers are reasonable enough to read the description and not expect used items to be in perfect working order with all accessories, or refurbished items to be as-new if they are listed as grade C or whatever and the flaws are disclosed.

coppercone2:
the problem is people think its like shitty repairs, you need to convince people that they are good and that you are not soldering capacitors over capacitors that are open circuit.

Maybe pictures of repairs would help to show that its
1) good part
2) good worksmanship (regulated iron, not delaminating traces, esd, post testing, adjustment to standard etc)

and something like saying you use ESD precautions would help alot, even if it really probobly does nothing for old gear. And say you don't leave damaged mechanical stuff inside like stripped screws. I never had problem selling repaired gear but I write a little repair report if I am gonna sell it saying exactly what I did. If you get some massacred peice of equipment with 8 stripped screws, massive amounts of delaminated traces, etc.. then thats a problem.

Just keep in mind some skilled people want lower prices for broke shit if they intend to fix it themselves and it might be not economical to buy something in working condition.

Psi:
Selling "Refurbished" stuff can run into problems on ebay/amazon because some manufactures have told the marketplace "only we can sell refurbished versions of our products".
So they close/cancel your listings.

Cough.. FU Apple Cough...

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