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I'm finding some nice deals. i sent e-mails to people asking questions, like stepping as stuff. There is one wehre the guy will throw in a 1600+, which is sweet, cause I could throw that in my GA-7DXR and see how it handles.

I also found a good deal on some ram.

Both have 100% positive feedback. I am planning on asking, after they answer my first questions, if they can gurantee it not to be DOA. Is it too risky though? I mean, if a processor's going to die, wouldn't it die within the first few days?

let me know.

with prices on memory and cpus being as low as they are, not sure if i would take the risk to save a few bucks

many of the dealers on ebay are retailers who carry 2nd tier memory, etc. for me, it isn't worth the possible hassle if there is a problem trying to track them down, etc. most of the main mfgrs like crucial, etc give you a no questions asked lifetime warranty. i've had to rma a couple of sticks down the years and i appreciated the no hassle replacement

with cpu's - if i was buying used, i would rather deal on the boards with someone with say, 100+ pos heatware than someone on ebay - i don't think ebay would have a much better price on stuff, and you usually get stiffed for extra shipping

my 0.02

Well, I'll go for the ram. There's some PC3200LLPT TwinX on there, really good price.

The processor, though... I found a 302, but I didn't want to bid so soon. The same person selling the 302 said they could sell me a:

AXDA2100DUT3C 4157317260957
AIUHB 0304 MPMW

I was told in this thread: http://www.amdforums.com/showthread.php ... ost1744313

That they were ok overclockers (he got to 2.4). Another person said to stick to the 302's and 250's (I also found a 0250 with brown PCB) he said the 250 w/ brown PCB was a good overclocker. Is that true?

Responses needed ASAP (cause, its, uhh, ebay.. )

Ebay is riskey, but at the same time safe, unless you get ripped then it wasen't too good, unless you got a great deal and can use it for something else ??

That's about how I really would some up my Ebay thoughts. I buy and sell.

I never got burned yet, though I have got some junk that was no good for what I bought it for, but I can use it for something else, so for me even though I got burned I got a decent deal, although for most other people it would have been a loss.

Like I bought a UPS, was told it all checked out well worked good but was there mothers and they didn't know much about the stuff they were selling, just that it worked but not the specs. They had about 100 positives. When I got it, it has test switch and cleary shows the battieres are shot. Took it apart and tested the batties in case just a wire came loose in shipping, and sure enough they are shot! To replace the battieres and use it normally would cost more than buying a better new one. They obviousily ripped me and knew it did not work!
I looked and sure enough they had about 30 negatives posted by people who bought items about the same time as I did. They got a load of junk and was blowing it out all at once.

But since the Surge suppresion/inverter/and charger works I have another use for it and did ok even though I got burned. Would have cost alot more just for the inverter which is realy what I was after anyway. So I did ok,


Most stuff I have been happy with. Most people I bought from I was happy with. I have bought lots of stuff of various things. Toys, books, cd's, and some computer stuff.

Feed back is a good sign, I look more for the negatives than for the positives though and also how many are repeat buyers. If a dealer has 1000 positive feedbacks and only 700 from unique users to me that means 300 sales were to people who bought more than once. Now that could mean they bought 3 items at the same time, which really means nothing, or they bought/ recieved item and bought again latter which of course means they were happy the first time! So I look for sellers with lots of repeat buyers, not just alot of postives! I feel safer with smaller numbers of feedbacks but lots of repeat buyers, than lots of one time feedbacks. Course it depends on the items. I also check to see if this is the sellers normal type items? Tons of feedbacks don't mean as much if they normally sell hundreds of books and now they have 2 mother boards for sale used

Been a few times I bought items I felt so so about. I will skip leaving the feedbacks and just not buy from that seller again. I am a very cautious buyer and fairley easy to please when I do buy stuff. So if I am not real happy when I open a box it is pretty sure it was the sellers fault. But if in dought I skip the feedbacks. Don't want to trash someone elses ratings if I made the error in buying.
Many people do that too, so another reason I look for repeat buyers more than just large numbers.

Also I skip over the positves (don't read many) and scan for the negatives/neutrals and actually read those! Were they posted by people with real problems or jerks??? Some people post a negative because they paid on Thursday but did not get the item till the following Friday and thought 8 days was too long to wait for a 50lb item cross country durring Xmass
So Personaly I feel reading the negatives is more important than postives. Some people would complain if you gave them a hundred dollar bill, because it was used or dirty!

An example of a jerk posting a negative! I was running a friends ebay sales for him in an emergancy. This buyer really wanted an item that was listed and e-mailed questions. I gave him totally honest answers and told him if he bought it and it was not what he wanted I would give him back a full refund on it. He bought it, wasn't what he expected, sent it back. I gave him a full refund and even paid the shipping both ways on the item, (something NO-ONE does). Did not cost him one cent for anything!
He left a negative!!! Was nothing wrong with the item, he just did not know what he wanted and bought the wrong thing himself. He even had perfect feedback, lots of em, till I left his negative!

Also if a seller has a real website and is a real retailer I always try to find it and check it out. And also e-mail them questions about the products. Are they retailing first quality, but dumping seconds on e-bay? Or is it the same products they retail? Also check prices closely! I have found some retailers I can buy from directly much cheaper than on e-bay. So check those prices!
The website might be selling a 1700xp cpu for resonable prices like $50 and some ebayer will think $75 is a good price becuase they don't know what prices should be! Or the ebay shipping may be $15 each and the website is $5 shipping for any size order.

I bought some new 72 pin ram for an old system from a retailers site for about half what it would have been in the ebay auction. Some bozo did pay twice as much too, the items sold!

E-bay is a crap shoot, but if your carefull and do the homework it can be a great place to shop! For almost anything

Need a kindey transplant? Check e-bay

Holy helluva long post!

But, yes, I agree with you. And, I ended up not buying anything from ebay. However, about a year and a half ago I did buy my Dell P990 off ebay, and it is still running strong.