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gotta' agree with the dragon on this one.
with those two T-15 screws missing from the back the cabinet will almost fall off on its own. (don't ask how i know)
even if you did not know there was supposed to be a display board inside, how could you not notice the ribbon cables hanging loose inside?
will be interesting to see how it all plays out.
edit just looked and there are supposed to be 3 screws back there. mine is missing one.
Agreed about the screws and the ribbon cable hanging loose etc, but I'm talking about the dragons claim that it is "not being as described", if you actually read the sellers description of the item, it fits the description precisely as the seller states
"Condition:
Overall Condition AS-IS (Please view all pictures)
Cosmetics Please view all pictures
Completeness As seen in pictures
Functionality AS-IS (Powers on / Unable to test further)"
They do mention that it was missing the handle, hence why I asked the dragon "Have you powered it up?, did the lights come on? ", if so then it matched the description as the seller also states that the unit is as shown in the photos. I was playing "Devil's advocate".
Now I may be totally wrong here, but I suspect that the seller is not a one-man band and so it is a reasonable assumption that the item might have been tested and packed by someone who does not have a clue what they are doing, maybe a school-leaver etc., the back may not have come off while they were wrapping it, therefore they would not have known the ribbon cables were hanging loose inside, who knows 
Because we don't have the right to pre-inspection of the auction,
the burden of accurate description is on the seller. Failure to disclose egregious deficiencies is a breach of the seller's contract with the buyer and with eBay. Dealing in good faith is required; it's right in the terms of use.You can't claim ignorance of the missing part when you are in the business of selling TE as whole and for parts, which this seller definitely is.
You especially can't claim ignorance (even though it is quite manifest here; the part robbed from this unit ruins this scope and the scope it was installed into)
when you rob parts out of a unit, then throw the remains into a box such that the bubble wrap is the only thing holding it together. 
And the fact that he disclosed the missing handle is proof that the seller understands they have the burden of accurate description.
Bottom line is that this is exactly the kind of situation that the eBay Dispute Resolution process was created for. If the seller doesn't make it right, I will send it back on my own dime, and shove it up his arse with PP dispute resolution and negative feedback. I can eat $30 to make that happen.
And then of course there's the fact that he's lost everybody in here as a potential customer, as it is quite obvious this seller does not deal honestly. He's already proven that just by trying to sell this pile of shit as a oscilloscope with some actual value, even as a parts unit.
Remember, there's a reason this unit was chosen as a donor for the monitor PCB: there is obviously something else wrong with it as well, so the mainboard is likely not a good part either.
So "Unable to test further" is an outright lie; this unit was tested, found defective, and robbed for parts.TL/DR: This seller got caught playing the Caveat Emptor game. That makes them an untrustworthy vendor, and the folks in here need to know this.mnem
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