[Coco] Ebay 512k coco3 cheap

[Arthur Flexser]

Very interesting story.  Not boring at all.  I had no idea eBay deletes
accounts that haven't been used in a while.

Art

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:07 PM, James Ross <jrosslist at outlook.com> wrote:

> I am NOT bidding on it ... but currently it’s up to $82 but still almost 3
> days to go. Shipping for TX at least is $25.92 – which is not so bad. It’s
> a risk but 4 times out of 5 times the chips just need to be reseated,
> right? However, if that’s an old-school RAM upgrade you’re going to have a
> possible heat problem. I remember my CoCo3 w/ 512k from 1988-92 would run
> quite hot.
>
> Aug last year I bought a CoCo3 128k on eBay for $175.50 + 25.00 S/H which
> was very clean, works, + had extras. 5 carts, 2 deluxe joysticks, cassette
> cable, + a couple manuals.  Which I thought (and still do) was a bargain
> for eBay at least.
>
> The remainder here is a little off topic, but it's about eBay:  eBay
> ticked me off so bad a few months ago, I am not too sure I’ll ever buy
> anything on there again.
>
> A few months ago, eBay cancelled my account. No warning, no email telling
> me why.
>
> I had been a member since 1998 (18 years!) and my feedback was somewhere
> around 132 all 100% positive.
>
> I didn't even know my account had been deleted at first, I just thought it
> was a problem w/ my password. For a couple months I had been doing searches
> and it showed me as still being logged in w/ my name up there at top and
> everything. I decided to bid on something, went to bid, it asked for my
> username/password, and for several attempts kept giving me an error. So I
> logged out. After that, I was never able to log in again. Going through the
> reset procedure did not work. Even going through my PayPal account (which
> still works fine, btw) to reset the eBay password it would take me to a
> page where it had my account # w/ underscore “deleted” after it in the URL
> w/ a message something like “there has been an error and eBay can NOT help
> you reset your password”.
>
> SO... I got around to calling them – which is hard as hell to find the
> right # and get a real person. Got a nice sounding lady, she said, we are
> opening an investigation and I’ll have the techs look at it and open a
> ticket # and you will get an email about it in 24 hrs --- NEVER heard a
> word.  A couple weeks went by, I called again, this time I told them I
> wanted to speak w/ a manager.
>
> Got a guy on there that sounded knowledgeable and he went through it w/
> me. He acknowledged everything I was saying, and that obviously this was
> some kind of mistake!! He could even look up my name and history and the
> fact I had just purchased 3 things in the last 3 months. Said what happened
> is that my account had been scheduled to be deleted due to inactivity, and
> then it got deleted, and there was NOTHING he could do about it. Zip, nada,
> nothing. There was NO way they could recover it. Granted, I went a good 3
> or 4 years w/o purchasing something prior to the 3 CoCo purchases BUT I had
> just used the account like 3 months ago!!! Why did that not count?
>
> For me to shop at eBay again, I have to open a new account and start over
> fresh w/ 0 feedback again. Not sure I ever will. But the problem is that
> for some things, I will never be able to find them anywhere but eBay if I
> don’t.  So I probably will eventually resign and succumb.    gggggrrrrr ...
>
> Sorry to bore anybody w/ my long story!
>
> James
>
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