Re: dodgy laptops, was: people making offers by email

rjn wrote:
davu wrote:

I'm in the middle of my first auction for a used and faulty laptop computer.

Speaking of flogging faulty laptops on eBay, here's a
humorous article about the outcome of one such:

"Revenge of the eBay customer sold 'faulty' laptop"
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=388189&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490>
or
<http://snipurl.com/r63d>

Laptop or desktop, scrub those HDDs before selling
them, folks.

Interesting. Since the pictures were on the laptop, I would suspect that the buyer would have some sort of right to them since s/he bought them.
.

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