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LikeLinus · Post by **LikeLinus** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 10:19 pm

Blade....a Nice size 12 boot is in order. On his ass of course.

Kick that bitch

bighammer · Post by **bighammer** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 10:42 pm

it's not win win
It's another name than, his name is Craig
congrats on your stuff

Coldfusion · Post by **Coldfusion** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 10:51 pm

Winwinwin is back, and using the username "maddenfootball" at some of the forums he was previously banned at. Be on the lookout, i'm sure he'll be trying his hand over here soon.

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 10:58 pm

I WISH some one in my area would Nix on a trade....my softball bat has been in my trunk for some time just Itching 4 some action. Keep us updated...and that was a very plesent email U got from him blade LOL

Greg

succubiss · Post by **succubiss** » Fri Dec 08, 2000 1:07 am

rock n roll LikeLinus!

glad you've resolved this stall6g... it sucks that we have to be so paranoid when dealing with newbies. I'd say 95% of the people i meet on boards have no evil intentions whatsoever, and asking them to ship first seems so uninviting... trolls ruin it for everyone.

plucky duck · Post by **plucky duck** » Fri Dec 08, 2000 3:12 am

Glad to hear its getting resolved stall6g.
Now lets just hope the package arrives and not just fluff.

2 thumbs up for LikeLinus and Blade

Good job guys!

Plucky

blade · Post by **blade** » Mon Dec 11, 2000 4:58 pm

This foul mouth dip is posting at ars now since he's banned here. Anyone like him is not welcome here. He still gave you a hassle and only decided to pay up after he was threatened with legal action.

Please do post once you get the item and if it is working ok.

Red Dawn · Post by **Red Dawn** » Mon Dec 11, 2000 5:23 pm

Hehehe.. He didn't like it too much when I posted a link to this thread over at Ars.

LikeLinus · Post by **LikeLinus** » Mon Dec 11, 2000 5:29 pm

was this resolved??? let us know please

stall6g · Post by **stall6g** » Mon Dec 11, 2000 6:14 pm

Sorry for getting back to this so late. I just got home and the cdrw was here. His idea of packaging a retail cdrw and sending it off was something like this: (Hmmm, let's see yep this box is just barely big enough for a drive to fit into. Oh, wait there is just a litttttle bit of room so I'll go ahead and throw in about 12, yes I counted them, styrofoam peanuts. There oh wait I promised him the software also along with this retail drive so here is an old version of Nero and just for good measure here is the product registration card.) No manual no Creative labs software that's it. I am going to throw it in my comp now to see if it works and I'll update this once I burn something with it.

Now here is an entirely different scenario and how this should have been handled on his part: I traded some hardware to someone else in exchange for a Voodoo5. Now I shipped promptly as this was going to be a cross trade and that person wasn't able to ship right away due to his backup card dying on him. Now I didn't have to drag this out of him and also he had references and he even said that if I absolutely needed it then he would send it anyway before he got my video card just to keep his end of the deal. Since he was honest with me from the get go and was willing to ship right away and didn't hide it from me it wasn't a big deal. A few days later he shipped the video card in a huge box that could have survived a trip over Niagara falls and even threw in a few games to make up for the delay in shipping. That is the difference between a good trader and a bad one. Sorry for the rant I'll get back to you guys once I see if it works.

blade · Post by **blade** » Mon Dec 11, 2000 6:14 pm

And in your comeback you were so polite to him Red. Are you sick btw? :lol

stall6g · Post by **stall6g** » Mon Dec 11, 2000 6:55 pm

Well I'm not claiming to be a rocket scientist or anything but I do know how to install a cdrom and based on my experience this thing is deader than a doornail. I uninstalled my Plextor and shut down the com and installed the cdrw that he sent and booted back up. CDrom started to make a grinding noise and the led came on and then it stopped. Once I got into windows I made sure that windows was detecting it and made sure that the adaptec software was recognizing it. All systems go on the software front so I open up the drive and throw in a blank cdr and a music cd in my other drive. Nada zip zero. For some reason my system locked up also. okay that's what restart is for so I get back into windows and same grinding noise and I throw the cd into the cdrw this time to see if it is in fact the software. Nope nada nothing yet again. I had to use the ol' tool to get out the cd from the drive since it wouldn't eject. I'm going to email him now and see what he is going to do about this.

LikeLinus · Post by **LikeLinus** » Mon Dec 11, 2000 6:58 pm

****ing figures.

blade · Post by **blade** » Mon Dec 11, 2000 7:12 pm

After his attitude I am not surprised in the least.

stall6g · Post by **stall6g** » Mon Dec 11, 2000 7:32 pm

Just got off of instant chat with him and he is going to reimburse me via Paypal. I'm still losing out on this deal but hey at least I'm leaving this bad experience with something. Just goes to show that no matter how careful you try to be there is always someone out there that is going to burn you. You just have to surround yourself with good people like you guys and live and learn.

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