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Fully Functional

Retrolum — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:18:58 +0000

Two of the most used excuses I hear from sellers for non-functional articles are ‘It worked here without any problems’ and ‘It must be damaged by the postal service’. In rare occasions this might be true, but most times these are just stupid lies. Here is a good example … In the following pictures you [...]

The Bad Girl

Retrolum — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:15:06 +0000

In the past I sold TV adapter cables for all the old retro consoles like Atari, SNES, Mega Drive and Sega Master. We were the only seller on eBay germany with that special cable and therefore sold many of them. The cable was quite cheap, but nevertheless sometimes bidders never paid for it. Business as [...]

Long Johns

Retrolum — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:17:41 +0000

What was the most ugly packing material used in parcels you received? I have two favourites and the first one is: Yellow long johns. No joke, I don’t have a clue why someone used his warmers instead of paper. I just hoped they were clean and washed before, but I didn’t checked for obvious [...]

Hazardous

Retrolum — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:42:27 +0000

Sometimes we receive goods which are just hazardous. In the following picture you can see a european power supply for a Super Nintendo and the isolation of the 220 Volt power cable is missing. The blank cables are shining through and of course it would be (at least) very painful to touch that cable. It [...]

PayPal’s buyer protection

Retrolum — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:31:29 +0000

PayPal is on eBay Germany not very common although the numbers of auctions providing PayPal as a payment method are increasing it is still not comparable with the US or UK. Luckily I paid this auction with Paypal and of course I filed a dispute. Altough we paid only a few $ for this [...]

Atari 2600 Set - Mint condition

Retrolum — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:10:10 +0000

This was the title of an auction and the auction description - although it was quite short with 5 lines of text - sounded fair enough to buy this set. A few interesting games like Asteroids and Berzerk were also included, overall a fair deal. I thought. But as the following pictures will show, the [...]