eBay seller problems: What would you do?

[ndoggfromhell]

Oh, a deal gone sour. Let this be a lesson, eBay is a sellers paradise, and a buyers prison. I foolishly bought a simple IBM Thinkpad 770 Harddisk Cover. (I posted here first ofcourse ) The cost was $15 roughly, but $10 just for shipping. I paid with paypal, and well within the time period specified in the auction. The item I received was actually the DEVA blank cover, not the HardDisk Cover. I messaged the seller and he wants me to ship it back to him (my cost) and then he'll evaluate it and either issue a refund or send the correct part. Is it fair for him to ask me to pay the shipping on a returned item? I made no mistake here, and yet i'm the one who's being treated like crap. The sellers been rude and i'd honestly like to just warn everyone about him. He sells under "tpads-plus" on eBay, and uses the site www.tpads-plus.com Please avoid him and let others know that he doesn't stand behind his auctions. He is mean to customers and doesn't use approved business practices.

[Kyocera]

dear doggfromhell,

in the Army we had a saying, "FIDO" which stands for "F#$% it and Drive On". Try another source, not Ebay, possibly if you can order it from Lenovo.

[BillMorrow]

i probably have at least one or two for a 770..
as well as the HDD caddys..

in fact, i have a couple of 770's from a stripped chassis to my museum resident..

[pianowizard]

Wow, this guy sounds like a total jerk. I have a problem with my latest eBay transaction too. It was a Thinkpad T21 that was advertised as having an 800MHz Processor, but it turned out to be only 650MHz, which is even slower than most T20's. I emailed the seller asking him to give me a $10 refund. After two days, he still hasn't responded. Let's see what will happen.

[tfflivemb2]

It was a Thinkpad T21 that was advertised as having an 800MHz Processor, but it turned out to be only 650MHz, which is even slower than most T20's.

Are you sure that that isn't a speedstep issue? What is the Model/type number?

Sorry about the hijack.

[JHEM]

I have a problem with my latest eBay transaction too. It was a Thinkpad T21 that was advertised as having an 800MHz Processor, but it turned out to be only 650MHz, which is even slower than most T20's.

There was never a 650MHz T21, slowest was a 750MHz.

Are you certain that you're not seeing a Speedstep issue? 650MHz is the first stepdown for an 800MHz CPU.

Regards,

James

[dsigma6]

650MHz is the first stepdown for an 800MHz CPU.

i've seen that, but on no settings does a second stepdown show up..

[pianowizard]

Speedstep was the first thing that I suspected, so I didn't blindly trust the speed reported by Windows XP, but instead used the system info software PC Wizard, which is supposed to report the type of processor rather than the current speed, and it showed 650MHz. I was aware that there was never a 650MHz T21, and this T21's model is 2647-4AU which is supposed to be 800MHz. So I thought the previous owner had replaced the original CPU with a slower one (he certainly had replaced the original 20GB HDD with a 12GB one). But just now, I checked the CPU type with EVEREST Home Edition and AIDA32 and they gave very different results:

EVEREST: CPU type is 800MHz Pentium IIIE, original clock is 650MHz

AIDA: CPU type is 733MHz Pentium IIIE, original clock is 800MHz

The three programs don't agree! Finally, I looked at the BIOS (which I somehow forgot to check earlier), which says 800MHz. I guess the BIOS reading should be the most accurate?