Re: Am I being conned?

On 2007-06-10, michael adams <mjadams25@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The seller bought a remote from eBuyer 4 weeks ago, registered it
on the harmony website and then made a complete horlicks of setting
it up. Rather than admit their error and swallowing it - or get
friend to help them - they thought the could just sling it back in the
box and sell it on eBay to some poor sap - who might just happen to
be a genius who could get it to work, despite its already being
registered to them.

Then when this poor sap starts complaining that they can't get
it to work either - maybe as a result of its already being registered
to someone else - to start bleating about how they - the seller are, wait
for it - "being conned"

Actually, your probably right. Thought the remotes are registered by
username and not by MAC or anything like that AFAIK.
But the first thing they often do, when connected for the first time,
is a firmware upgrade. If the connection interrupted at that time,
vendor could have bricked it.


Lordy
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