Brock Campbell wrote:
>Have you filed this with the BBB?
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I'll leave that up to my client. I'm not the one who got ripped off.
(other than being almost falsely accused.)
(remainder of old message left for google goodness.)
ttyl
srw
>On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 18:12 -0600, Scott Walde wrote:
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>>It's not Linux related in the least, but is computer related and
>>involves a local computer store...
>>
>>A customer of mine bought a new-to-them refurbished computer about 2
>>years ago. I hadn't seen this computer until today. It had a couple of
>>really minor software issues that I solved. But... (and Dylan can back
>>me up on this) I noticed right away that something was strange. It is
>>an Athlon XP2800 machine, but it was painfully slow booting Windows XP.
>>I checked, and Windows was reporting 192MB of RAM. (64 were reserved
>>for the onboard video.) I pulled the cover off to see if maybe a second
>>DIMM was unseated or something. It only has one 256MB DDR DIMM and I
>>also recognized it had a Fujitsu hard drive. For those not in the know,
>>Fujitsu hasn't made 3.5" IDE hard drives for maybe 5 or 6 years now. I
>>checked, and the machine has a 10GB Fujitsu HD. This all seemed a bit
>>strange for a 2 year old computer. I mentioned this to my client. She
>>was _sure_ the machine had 512MB of RAM. She was also sure she hadn't
>>been told it was a used or refurbished machine. She found the invoice
>>and, sure enough, it said Athlon XP2800, 512MB, 120GB. (and no mention
>>of being refurbished.) They took the computer in to Computer Trends,
>>where they bought it, and complained. The guy there told them there is
>>no way it would have shipped that way, and that someone who serviced it
>>must have replaced those parts. They claim I am the only person who has
>>serviced the machine. I asked the guy at Computer Trends if he was
>>accusing me of stealing a 120GB IDE drive and 256MB of DDR. He stopped
>>short of actually accusing me, but told me to "draw my own conclusions."
>>
>>My conclusion: (and I'm happy that this will be stored on the SLG
>>archive forever) Don't buy anything from Computer Trends!
>>
>>(Oh, and please, friends don't let friends buy refurbished e-Machines.)
>>
>>Thank you for reading. I feel a little bit better now.
>>
>>ttyl
>>srw
>>
>>
Received on Wed Feb 7 01:17:19 2007
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