I think often, when the picture shows a unit obviously working, the
seller has "borrowed" ;) a picture from another seller.
Fraudulant or lazy? A bit of both. - IMO quite a bit of both.
Except in the rare instance when the seller discloses that a picture
was taken from the manufacturer's literature. Then the picture is
just nearly useless.
I'm also suspicious when a seller posts multiple lots of identical
items, all with obviously the same picture. I've seen about a dozen
lots of snowflake obsidian cabochons in two different sizes and
different counts with the same picture. This was especially egregious
as every piece of snowflake obsidian is unique.
-Howard
--- In TekScopes@..., Michael Dunn <mdunn@c...> wrote:
Is anyone else suspicious of some of the auctions on eBay. In one
auction, the seller says he doesn't know how to use it, so therefore
can't guarantee it (a 5L14 analyzer), yet has pictures of it in full
operation. Another of his auctions for a storage mainframe - he says
he doesn't know how to use the storage... Gimme a break.
I expect some people might do this to cover up a non-working
function, instead of just coming out and saying (e.g.) "Storage
doesn't work"!
Comments?
p.s., Are 5000 and 7000 plug ins compatible? For example, my 7S14
has a sticker on it that says 5S14 too.
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