Selling stuff second-hand

posted by O-Trap

The problem, as he tells it, is that it won't do any high-spec or HD gaming (it will still game on SD), and the Intel driver for the wifi chip is deprecated, so you can't download it from Intel anymore (though you can still find it hosted elsewhere by third parties).
Bottom line was this:  I told him how old it was.  I had it on, connected to the Internet, on my front porch when he arrived to pick it up (I was talking to him through the glass door ... distancing).  I had the specs (processor model, RAM, drive space, graphics) all up on the screen for him to see when he got there.  He took it home and got pissed because he tried to play a game on it, and it wouldn't run that particular game (which I never played and made no claims that it could play) with the specs he wanted.  
I'd made no guarantees other than the fact that it still worked, connected to the Internet, and had always done anything I'd needed it to do.

 

Gotcha - definitely I would have told him to pound sand, but in a gentle tone.  That's as full a disclosure as you can expect from such a sale, short of taking it home overnight as a loaner.  It's his own fault for not running the game first. 

As Peter Brady might have said, "Way to caveat his emptor!".  

posted by Zunardo

Gotcha - definitely I would have told him to pound sand, but in a gentle tone.  That's as full a disclosure as you can expect from such a sale, short of taking it home overnight as a loaner.  It's his own fault for not running the game first. 

As Peter Brady might have said, "Way to caveat his emptor!".  

Shoot, he could have even done research on the machine.  He had all the specs available.  Could have looked them up to see if they suited what he wanted to do.