[rant] What's wrong with LCD cable FRUs and eBay sellers?

[twistero]

I was looking to buy an LCD cable for a 15 inch T60 with bluetooth. The FRU should be 91P6985 according to the HMM. Well, this doesn't seem hard, so I went on eBay, searched for the FRU and bought one. It came in the mail today, and guess what, it's an R60 LCD cable, not T60.

Alright, to be fair, the original eBay listing did say "R60" in the title and description, and there's a photo of the actual cable, so I should have recognized that. But still, how can people list something as "IBM THINKPAD LENOVO R60 15" LCD VIDEO CABLE 91P6985" when 91P6985 is clearly not an R60 part? And in fact, of the 6 listings for 91P6985 on eBay, those 4 that have actual photos are ALL R60 parts.

Also, apparently T60 15 inch LCD cables go by FRU 91P6970 (with bluetooth) and 91P6950 (without bluetooth), which is not referenced anywhere on Lenovo's website. What's going on here?

[RealBlackStuff]

Currently I have two 15" T60p machines.
Both have UXGA displays, both have the same LCD cables with Bluetooth.
As per HMM this cable P/N should be 91P6985.
There are a slew of numbers on my cables:
- 91P6970 on a white sticker on the Think-LED cable
- 91P6950 imprinted in the film-material UNDER that sticker
Near the LCD connector to the motherboard there are two more white stickers with:
- 41W1156 as part of the serial number on the first sticker
- 41V9697 ASM number
- 13N7075 as part of another number, which is effectively the IBM P/N of the 15" BoeHydis UXGA LCD HV150UX1-100
Both last numbers together on the other sticker.

All of the above come up as valid numbers in Google.
So the alternative number for a 15" T60/p SXGA+/UXGA LCD-cable with Bluetooth is 91P6970

For comparison, the T60 cable looks like this:

and the eBay advertised cable looks like this (notice the difference in cable length and shape for the inverter and BlueTooth)