The MAC Experiment stalls with eBay frustration

I love eBay, my wife calls it my second home, while my children call it my Ebaby. But love sometimes is strained. Some of the people on eBay drive me mad. Let’s take the new MAC I ordered for example. I don’t think it’s unreasonable when a machine is advertised as having a 1680 x 1050 screen, 120GB HD and PC2-4200 RAM to be a bit upset when it arrives and it has a 1440x 900 screen, 100GB HD and PC2700 RAM.

So how did this happen.

1. Afore mentioned company has new MAC Powerbook as excess stock

2. Thinks we will sell it on EBay

3. Goes to Apple website, cut and paste latest spec

4. Put item up for sale without even checking if the Powerbook they
have in the box is the same as the one they just advertised.

In late October Apple upgraded the Powerbook range (Apple don’t bother changing model names/numbers etc just because a spec changes) while this Powerbook must have been bought before that.

Ok in fairness I rang the company, they are going to take it back at their expense and give me a full refund but it’s still annoying. Now I also have to wait to see if Crucial will take back the 2GB of PC2-4200 RAM I bought from them to put in the Powerbook. If they won’t? Well I guess its cut and paste some specs from the Crucial website and put it on eBay. Life’s a vicious circle I guess.

So has the MAC experiment died a death before it has even begun? Watch this space while I watch eBay.