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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
wkb:
Keysight engineering watching this are having a :palm: :scared: :wtf: day, no doubt.
But it does work! For some definition of work presumably...
factory:
Seller is in India & has only 31 feedback left, but ebay claims they have sold 250+ items, something smells dodgy to me. Plus it says Keyshite on the front, the dumpster is where it belongs >:D (along with it's buddies from Siglol & Riglent :box:).
David
McBryce:
--- Quote from: salvagedcircuitry on December 29, 2024, 05:40:58 pm ---Alright guys, what do you think. Is this a great deal or what? :palm:
On this episode of bat $hit crazy ebay sellers: :scared:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/405438628857
$6k for a well loved msox4000 series scope! :-DD
Condition:
* Has been sitting in a lake for an unknown amount of time
* Looks like it was dragged behind a truck for a few dozen feet
* Knobs missing and encoders look bent
* Front BNC connectors are bent and dented
* Tilting bale broken
* All external metal surfaces corroded
* Rear BNCs look like they are growing into an inorganic coral reef
I'm going to take a guess and say this was found outside in a heaping pile of junk in an open dumpster.
What's a reasonable offer here? $50? $100? I'm being generous here. I bet he has auto decline on too! :rant:
--- End quote ---
The owner obviously misunderstood when they heard people calling scopes "boat anchors".
McBryce.
Robert763:
From the sellers name and location this 'scope was probably found in some dark oily corner of a ship being scrapped.
On a related note has anyone else noticed that since ebay UK stopped charging fees for private sellers the selecion of TE has been terible and over-priced?
There also seem to be a lot of private sellers who look a lot like businesses. ebay UK have also changed the reporting system and no longer have an option for reporting that a seller is a business. I've not bought a single piece of TE on ebay since October.
factory:
I've not noticed any difference since fees for private sellers ended, it's always been full of high priced stuff, that spends months & years cluttering the servers up with unnecessary noughts & ones. The low priced stuff disappears before we can find it.
Ebay probably don't need this part of the reporting system anymore, as there was ployticks created to have this data collected & shared with the relevant authorities. The reporting system is a waste of time anyway, as they never seem to act on anything.
David
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