eBay Scam Victim Strikes Back

jcomeau_ictx writes "Justin Spence doesn't take lightly being scammed out of $1155 for a laptop he never received. The seller, Salvatore Wise, Jr. of Philadelphia, is growing openly more hostile over the webpage Justin produced exposing his and his wife Michelle Heinlein's scams to the world. So far Justin has documented $6841.00 total lost to this crook, but the total is more likely in the tens of thousands. " As it goes along it just gets more and more bizarre. My favorite part is when "Sal" says that all the earlier messages were sent from a different Sal, but you can tell them apart because the true Sal always writes his emails in italics.

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Re:Caveat Emptor

[renehollan]

Actually, they're planar magnetics: the principle is that you take a conventional speaker's voice coil (which has significant mass, thus inertia, thus sluggish response to "recover") and stretch it out to a single wire. Bond this to a thin diaphram (kapton is common) and place it within a big, honking, magnetic field. Voila!

Such speakers tend to be on the low end, sensitivity-wise, volume depending on current (there's a limit before the wire catches fire or melts), and magnetic field strengh. Still, coupled with a good amp, they have amazingly flat, albeit a bit directional (which can actually sometimes be a good thing to help avoid undesirable echoes), response above 200 Hz or so, all the way to ultrasonics.

I've always wondered what one could do with this principle and neodymium iron boron magnets.