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Offline squishygnomes

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Australia - Broken Blackwidow w/ MX blues
« on: Wed, 12 August 2015, 04:42:37 »
Razer BlackWidow Ultimate 2013 Edition - the auction starts at $1 + $13 shipping to sydney

""All connection cables cut. Missing keyboard leg. May have other undiagnosed faults."

- My guess is that the switches, caps and plate are all fine

- PCB is probably fine but you never know.

- One leg is definitely broken and I'm pretty sure he means the cable is broken.

- Sounds like he wanted to return / RMA it but razer told him to cut the cable rather than pay for shipping, I got told to do the same thing to an old deathadder a while back.
« Last Edit: Wed, 12 August 2015, 22:41:30 by squishygnomes »
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Offline Armagedda

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Re: Australia - Broken Blackwidow w/ MX blues - $10 BIN + shipping
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 12 August 2015, 20:06:49 »
Unable to BIN.

Could be a decent source of reasonable priced switches provided you don't mind a bit of desoldering.

I might bid on it but I don't even know if I can be bothered watching this for 2 days to be honest. I was just going to BIN....oh well.
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Offline Armagedda

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Re: Australia - Broken Blackwidow w/ MX blues - $10 BIN + shipping
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 12 August 2015, 21:48:26 »
By the way, what do you mean by cut the cable?

How does this save any shipping costs? You cut the cables and take a picture to prove to them you bricked it?
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Offline rowdy

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Re: Australia - Broken Blackwidow w/ MX blues - $10 BIN + shipping
« Reply #3 on: Wed, 12 August 2015, 21:50:23 »
Presumably these have non-removable cables, and for most people cutting the cable off renders the keyboard unuseable, hence valueless.

For those with the necessary skills though, it is fairly simple to replace a cable.
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Offline Armagedda

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Re: Australia - Broken Blackwidow w/ MX blues - $10 BIN + shipping
« Reply #4 on: Wed, 12 August 2015, 22:16:22 »
Yeah I've got a gutted blackwidow myself, the cable is non-detachable but would be easy enough to replace.

My question is why would Razer ask you to do this? Do you prove to them you bricked the board then they send you a new one without having to pay postage on the brick going back to them?
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Offline squishygnomes

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Re: Australia - Broken Blackwidow w/ MX blues - $10 BIN + shipping
« Reply #5 on: Wed, 12 August 2015, 22:40:46 »
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Unable to BIN.
Huh, I can't either. It was definitely there when I posted it though. I'll edit the main post



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Do you prove to them you bricked the board then they send you a new one without having to pay postage on the brick going back to them?

Yep, thats exactly it. When my deathadder broke and they were going to send me a new one they told me to just cut the cord with scissors and take a picture, they didn't want to pay for postage. If you were trying to scam them it would easy to fix the cable or fake the picture, I guess they rely on most people not being bothered or able to.

I dont actually know if that's what happened here but I can't really think of many other situations where "All connection cables [are] cut"
« Last Edit: Wed, 12 August 2015, 22:42:19 by squishygnomes »
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Offline Armagedda

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Re: Australia - Broken Blackwidow w/ MX blues
« Reply #6 on: Wed, 12 August 2015, 22:50:32 »
Fair enough. I suppose I'm not too surprised, the postage is huge from Australia.

It would be mighty easy to run game on Razer knowing this though! USB cables aren't exactly hard to fix.

They'd probably cotton on if you RMA'd more than a couple of things though. Not that I'm advocating this kind of nefarious behaviour.
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Re: Australia - Broken Blackwidow w/ MX blues
« Reply #7 on: Thu, 13 August 2015, 02:12:42 »
Probably no more BIN because someone put a bid on it.
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Offline Armagedda

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Re: Australia - Broken Blackwidow w/ MX blues
« Reply #8 on: Thu, 13 August 2015, 03:57:51 »
That's pretty annoying because at ~$30 that board is well worth it for the switches.

I would have gone for the BIN straight away.
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Re: Australia - Broken Blackwidow w/ MX blues
« Reply #9 on: Thu, 13 August 2015, 06:17:36 »
"This listing was ended by the seller because the item was lost or broken." - maybe the seller was reading this thread and decided to keep it for the switches :))
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Offline Ludovician

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Re: Australia - Broken Blackwidow w/ MX blues
« Reply #10 on: Thu, 13 August 2015, 16:28:06 »
Or repair the cable.
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Re: Australia - Broken Blackwidow w/ MX blues
« Reply #11 on: Thu, 13 August 2015, 21:54:02 »
Quote from: rowdy on Thu, 13 August 2015, 06:17:36
"This listing was ended by the seller because the item was lost or broken." - maybe the seller was reading this thread and decided to keep it for the switches :))

Sometimes Geekhack can be a pain, when it comes to educating ignorant sellers  >:D .
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Offline Armagedda

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Re: Australia - Broken Blackwidow w/ MX blues
« Reply #12 on: Thu, 13 August 2015, 23:36:54 »
Spewing hard. I need some blues.
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