machinecoder wrote:This trader is being real nasty
Over the past 3 or 4 years, I've had to learn a thing or two about dealing with people like this, and accusing them of (or even hinting at) dishonesty doesn't end well. Tezza's even-tempered diplomacy has made me sound like an angry conspiracy-theorist a few times.
43 Negs out of 10,000'ish trades is not bad. Look at the volume and type of trading. His primary interest seems to be cars and general second hand trading. Those "negs" won't be one sided either. Secondhand trading is a minefield of dealing with people who want diamond service for copper prices. You'd get a short fuse quite quickly.
EDIT: and it looks like the argument has settled down.
It sounds to me like he's answered the question as clearly as he knows how. He'll be used to testing TV's and VCR's but possibly not 1980's computers, beyond being able to plug one in. This (dirty) machine will be in his garage and he won't want to drag it inside and do further testing on. It's just a piece of stock he wants sold.
It does sound like the monitor is going and the machine probably is a case of another dead IOU chip... (probably some power supply caps as well, as Matt has suggested.)