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Undertoad · 01-07-2013, 08:07 PM

And all that is one of the reasons pawn shop offers have to be low. Some things you can evaluate fairly 100% of the time, such as gold and diamonds. Electronics you can almost never evaluate fairly, because you can't test everything. Does the input switch on the remote work? We didn't check for that.

Frinstance, on laptops, people will sometimes set a password on the BIOS, which can't typically be fixed. This means we can't honestly sell it on eBay in any category but "For Parts or Not Working". So of course the return goes way lower, and we wind up burnt on a deal.

01-07-2013, 08:07 PM	#308
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	And all that is one of the reasons pawn shop offers have to be low. Some things you can evaluate fairly 100% of the time, such as gold and diamonds. Electronics you can almost never evaluate fairly, because you can't test everything. Does the input switch on the remote work? We didn't check for that. Frinstance, on laptops, people will sometimes set a password on the BIOS, which can't typically be fixed. This means we can't honestly sell it on eBay in any category but "For Parts or Not Working". So of course the return goes way lower, and we wind up burnt on a deal.