[rescue] Don't buy from ebay seller carp-o-matic

[Velocityengine]

I don't think I've ever gotten a SGI via shipping that *didn't* have cracked
plastics. I've only ever gotten pristine machines from picking them up
myself.

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Dan Sikorski <me at dansikorski.com> wrote:

> On 3/25/2011 6:36 PM, pete wrote:
>
>> Not making excuses for a bad ebay guy but, man SGI stuff is way too
>> fragile. The plastic they used for everything is crazy brittle. Never seen
>> anything else like it. I have seen perfectly packed O2 show up as plastic
>> rubble.
>>
>> On 3/25/2011 3:27 PM, Richard wrote:
>>
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>>> http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/dont-buy-from-ebay-seller-carp-o-matic/>
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>>
> That said, out of the SGI systems I have had contact with, the Indigo2 and
> Indy are about as good as SGI plastic gets.  If an O2 was shipped/abused in
> the same manner as the Indigo2 shown, I'm not sure any of the plastic would
> be intact.
>
>    -Dan
>
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