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06-01-2008, 01:58
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I'm going for a scuttle...
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 2,021
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My first eBay problem :(
Yeah it was bound to happen but after many smooth transactions, the time has come for a baddun.
 Came across an auction for a 4Gb Kingston ECC Ram kit on eBay sat at just over £5. I have been looking for some server ram for a while for one of my servers so I thought I would watch it and see how it went. I read the auction, saw the photo of 4 sticks of RAM and clicked watch. Fast forward to the end of the auction - the RAM is there and with few bids it is still sat at £5.50. I figure that as the fact it isnt specifically listed as ECC (but IS listed as "server ram") its got to be worth a go at getting it supercheap so I lob in a bid of £20 with a few seconds to go and win it for £14.01. At this point, I sit back and instead of feeling gleeful at having got £100worth of RAM for £14, I am a bit dubious as to why it was so cheap. I whacked the code visible on the chips into google and lo and behold, despite the fact that each chip has 1024 printed on it, it turns out to be a 1Gb kit of 4 matched 256Mb sticks. I have emailed the seller and he is adamant that they are in fact 1Gb sticks but as I now know they aren't I really don't want to send him the money. At the moment, he doesn't seem to be taking this fact too well. This could well turn out to be my first eBay neg or Non Paying Bidder "strike" but I don't feel like I am in the wrong because the listing clearly states its 4Gb when it isnt. Quote:
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