I am with you on the description, I detail every piece of relevant material, a short sentence salespad about customer satisfaction, and normally it clocks in at 2 paragraphs.
As far as checks go, I guess it depends on what market you're trying to hit. I am mostly in the technical/IT sector, so I only accept PayPal and rarely have a problem with that. Checks are too risky for me, and the delay too long. Of course, I can afford to lose whatever business checks would bring, because anybody looking at what I've got almost certainly has a PayPal account. You just gotta remember PayPal is like the mob, they want a percentage of whatever passes through their turf... make sure you make your margins with that added on.
I have 100% feedback you clown. Why would I post my ID to an AC on slashdot? You'll probably start bidding and not paying on all of my stuff, because that's the kind of person an AC is.
I describe every detail of what I am selling, I make sure to include a nice line that says to contact me with any questions *before* placing a bid. People can't possibly leave me a negative feedback because I do everything in painstaking detail, and I often ship the same day with FedEx in extremely excellent packaging. Hell, for a while I was shipping fedex two day at no additional charge. The most problematic people I get are noobs who ask me technical stuff cause they have no clue. Honestly, I have no fucking time for that. If you don't know how to use the equipment, contact a consultant/tech support. Seriously I am on Ebay to sell shit and make money, that's the whole point. I'm not on there to be mister nice guy and satisfy some fetish that asshole customers have with getting blowjobs from sellers.
If you think I am an asshole, try being a seller on EBay. You will quickly see that this is the attitude you *have to* have to survive on there.
And FTR, I've NEVER had to leave a negative feedback for anyone on EBay, because at the slightest inclination of the customer trying to be an asshole, I take their assholery and raise them 10. All of a sudden they stop being a prick and lay off. This is business people, sharks are in this water and you can either man up or swim somewhere else.
Dude, I think your problem is you're being far too nice. You need to be a prick on Ebay. Ebay is full of dickheads and mentally handicapped people. I love the offers that come to you like "il pay u $STARTINGBID 2 inclood shiping rite now". What do I look like fucking Wal-Mart, free shipping and shit? Eat a dick, if you want it bid on it. You give people the slightest leeway or the slightest indication that you are a nice guy, they will abuse you. When this guy whined about not being able to use the camera, you should have posted him a link to the manual. Maybe find an instructional course on photography and give him a link to that. Instead of saying "I will be forced to leave negative feedback", leave negative feedback. I sell a decent amount of Sun equipment on Ebay, and have had responses from people who clearly didn't read the whole description. I paste a link to the original auction and say "please re-read the description." That's all.
Also, with PayPal, withdraw to your bank account immediately after receiving payment (always require immediate payment for buy it now too). If someone tries to activate the "buyer protection" shit to scam on you, you call your bank and tell them to cancel the transaction -> paypal. Your bank will listen, PayPal won't.
Yea they don't sell them anymore, but that doesn't mean they're old or slow enough to copy files off of a network that slow. A dual G5 is the latest PPC they made. It's relatively new, by about two or so years I want to say, and my buddy uses one with a slightly faster clock speed. It's fast. And if it's a cut and paste troll, sorry, never seen it before.
Scratch that, you did mention it towards the end. Either way, iMacs are awesome Desktops. My Linux desktop is strictly for programming and work. I do all that plus all my multimedia stuff on the iMac.
Why do people constantly leave out the iMac? I am a Linux guy, and think my 24 inch new iMac is incredible. It saved tons of space, looks awesome, and functionally it is great.
This is marked insightful? You have some other kind of issue if it takes 20 minutes to copy a 17 meg file on a machine with those specs, or you're just trolling.
Wow... imagine when this tech is commodity-level. My grandfather, since I was a kid and CD's were popular predicted a 3d cube for data storage, and another thing he predicted was computers that use DNA for processing. It's really incredible these things are being made. Thanks for the company name. Their drive is 18k right now, and the specs look like it can already do 1.6 TB, unless I misread them.
Are you really comparing a slackware PC to a Mac? Apples and Chickens man... and Slackware is a PITA sometimes (I used it from 7.0 to 10). You're right in that it's perfect pretty much for someone who likes to tinker and mess around with Linux and their computer, but in terms of general usability it's not that great.
pkginfo in Solaris can show you that info I believe, much like rpm or apt. ANYWAYS I'm responding to your "Stinkpad T61"... were you just being funny or you actually don't like thinkpads? The T61 works perfectly in RHEL 5.1. I have no idea how anyone could dislike a T60 or T61. I am typing this on a T60, which I love dearly.
IDK if you knew this, but you go into System Preferences -> Keyboard and Mouse, and you can set the right side of the mouse to right-click. I find that the only people bashing the mighty mouse are people who have never used it, or were unaware it could be configured to do different things than what the factory settings are.
HAHA... perhaps you've never needed something that was deemed unnecessary by someone who has never seen, nor spoken to you?
The president remark was to illustrate how ridiculously invalid another person's comment was. It's feasible that I or you or anybody 'can' do a lot of things. Does that really mean that in reality it is so very simple that you just do it?
And you're claiming that hardware can't fuck up Windows? Hardware that does things the OS doesn't like or vice versa, is the cause of lots of crashes. Just cause that one stick works fine on Windows, doesn't mean you can't find something that will screw with Windows.
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I am with you on the description, I detail every piece of relevant material, a short sentence salespad about customer satisfaction, and normally it clocks in at 2 paragraphs.
As far as checks go, I guess it depends on what market you're trying to hit. I am mostly in the technical/IT sector, so I only accept PayPal and rarely have a problem with that. Checks are too risky for me, and the delay too long. Of course, I can afford to lose whatever business checks would bring, because anybody looking at what I've got almost certainly has a PayPal account. You just gotta remember PayPal is like the mob, they want a percentage of whatever passes through their turf... make sure you make your margins with that added on.
I have 100% feedback you clown. Why would I post my ID to an AC on slashdot? You'll probably start bidding and not paying on all of my stuff, because that's the kind of person an AC is.
I describe every detail of what I am selling, I make sure to include a nice line that says to contact me with any questions *before* placing a bid. People can't possibly leave me a negative feedback because I do everything in painstaking detail, and I often ship the same day with FedEx in extremely excellent packaging. Hell, for a while I was shipping fedex two day at no additional charge. The most problematic people I get are noobs who ask me technical stuff cause they have no clue. Honestly, I have no fucking time for that. If you don't know how to use the equipment, contact a consultant/tech support. Seriously I am on Ebay to sell shit and make money, that's the whole point. I'm not on there to be mister nice guy and satisfy some fetish that asshole customers have with getting blowjobs from sellers.
If you think I am an asshole, try being a seller on EBay. You will quickly see that this is the attitude you *have to* have to survive on there.
And FTR, I've NEVER had to leave a negative feedback for anyone on EBay, because at the slightest inclination of the customer trying to be an asshole, I take their assholery and raise them 10. All of a sudden they stop being a prick and lay off. This is business people, sharks are in this water and you can either man up or swim somewhere else.
Dude, I think your problem is you're being far too nice. You need to be a prick on Ebay. Ebay is full of dickheads and mentally handicapped people. I love the offers that come to you like "il pay u $STARTINGBID 2 inclood shiping rite now". What do I look like fucking Wal-Mart, free shipping and shit? Eat a dick, if you want it bid on it. You give people the slightest leeway or the slightest indication that you are a nice guy, they will abuse you. When this guy whined about not being able to use the camera, you should have posted him a link to the manual. Maybe find an instructional course on photography and give him a link to that. Instead of saying "I will be forced to leave negative feedback", leave negative feedback. I sell a decent amount of Sun equipment on Ebay, and have had responses from people who clearly didn't read the whole description. I paste a link to the original auction and say "please re-read the description." That's all. Also, with PayPal, withdraw to your bank account immediately after receiving payment (always require immediate payment for buy it now too). If someone tries to activate the "buyer protection" shit to scam on you, you call your bank and tell them to cancel the transaction -> paypal. Your bank will listen, PayPal won't.
And who taught you that?
Did they have clamdigger on that thing?!?
I knew a guy from HP... this is what they did for him and his whole group.
Yea they don't sell them anymore, but that doesn't mean they're old or slow enough to copy files off of a network that slow. A dual G5 is the latest PPC they made. It's relatively new, by about two or so years I want to say, and my buddy uses one with a slightly faster clock speed. It's fast. And if it's a cut and paste troll, sorry, never seen it before.
Scratch that, you did mention it towards the end. Either way, iMacs are awesome Desktops. My Linux desktop is strictly for programming and work. I do all that plus all my multimedia stuff on the iMac.
Why do people constantly leave out the iMac? I am a Linux guy, and think my 24 inch new iMac is incredible. It saved tons of space, looks awesome, and functionally it is great.
This is marked insightful? You have some other kind of issue if it takes 20 minutes to copy a 17 meg file on a machine with those specs, or you're just trolling.
Wow... imagine when this tech is commodity-level. My grandfather, since I was a kid and CD's were popular predicted a 3d cube for data storage, and another thing he predicted was computers that use DNA for processing. It's really incredible these things are being made. Thanks for the company name. Their drive is 18k right now, and the specs look like it can already do 1.6 TB, unless I misread them.
Was this possibly around a decade ago? I use mutt to test dovecot servers with imap, imaps, and pop, and it works fine.
Good thing you can do everything from YAST via CLI, that god awful piece of shit gave me nightmares for months after using it once.
Are you really comparing a slackware PC to a Mac? Apples and Chickens man... and Slackware is a PITA sometimes (I used it from 7.0 to 10). You're right in that it's perfect pretty much for someone who likes to tinker and mess around with Linux and their computer, but in terms of general usability it's not that great.
And you probably can't afford a whopper with the employee discount?
Gee I bet no one slashdot has ever heard that before.
You can add a little run command window to your panel ;-)
pkginfo in Solaris can show you that info I believe, much like rpm or apt. ANYWAYS I'm responding to your "Stinkpad T61"... were you just being funny or you actually don't like thinkpads? The T61 works perfectly in RHEL 5.1. I have no idea how anyone could dislike a T60 or T61. I am typing this on a T60, which I love dearly.
Uhhh have you ever heard of the recovery console? It's command-line.
IDK if you knew this, but you go into System Preferences -> Keyboard and Mouse, and you can set the right side of the mouse to right-click. I find that the only people bashing the mighty mouse are people who have never used it, or were unaware it could be configured to do different things than what the factory settings are.
HAHA... perhaps you've never needed something that was deemed unnecessary by someone who has never seen, nor spoken to you? The president remark was to illustrate how ridiculously invalid another person's comment was. It's feasible that I or you or anybody 'can' do a lot of things. Does that really mean that in reality it is so very simple that you just do it?
Cutting down sales on quad core processors? Are kids these days really being given systems with quad core processors?
You know... YOU can always run for president if you don't like the current one. Either you missed my point or you are joking.
Yea stupid, just like insurance companies know if a patient "needs" medication better than doctors.
And you're claiming that hardware can't fuck up Windows? Hardware that does things the OS doesn't like or vice versa, is the cause of lots of crashes. Just cause that one stick works fine on Windows, doesn't mean you can't find something that will screw with Windows.