Another Bad expereince...

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Another Bad expereince...

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Here we go again. I was so pissed off yesterday when I recieved. Here is the auction.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0408396857

So I get the amp at work, the box is crushed and ripped. The amp is flopping around. The seller threw the amp in the box with just a thin piece of plastic foam maybe 1/16" thick. That is all the packaging material. WTF! I was so pissed I decided not to open it until after work becuase I had too much to do and I would be fuming mad and distracted if I was disappointed.

So I open it up. The amp is a little worse shape than I expected, but I would have been fine if that was it. All 3 of the 4 corners are bent. Two are them are so bent they ripples up under the amp. So I am little pissed off.

I then look at the amp further its missing screw and one of the RCA plug shield is missing. I am thinking it fell off in shipping, but then I look at his ebay ad and it isn't the picture he took either. According his ebay ad "It worked perfectly when it was removed" "It puts out a clean 50 watts per channel and is an excellent amp to run a set of seperates." Bullshit!!!!
What are you going to do run it all on the right channel :roll:

The saving grace is opened it up, the circuit board isn't burnt. The bigs caps all need replacing (I expected that). Atleast I got a good deal on this amp (I am glad it didn't go to my max) but it would have been cheaper if the seller advertised it truthfully as a broken amp.
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Post by Irongoats »

I definitely say he may have mislead you man that sucks. What's the seller's name so we don't order from him if you don't mind?
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robert thomas
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I will give an update on how it works out. I will atleast give him a chance to make things right. I asked for a partial refund.
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Rob Thomas from Matchbox 20?!!!!! :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Nice selling price...6789 LOL. Sorry it wasn't as cool of a deal as you were hopping.
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I sent a pm to MW3 to find out who to contact in PG about parts. , Morgan just informed me that PG probably doesn't have the RCA to fix this amp anymore.

Anyone know if this is a common part that I can order (a part number would be great)
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Post by Eric D »

I may have an RCA from another board. I would have to take a look.

It will still work in stereo most likely. The amp will just get the RCA shield from the one still there. I understand this is lame and not right by any means, but chances are the amp will still work just fine.
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Eric D wrote:I may have an RCA from another board. I would have to take a look.

It will still work in stereo most likely. The amp will just get the RCA shield from the one still there. I understand this is lame and not right by any means, but chances are the amp will still work just fine.
I didn't try to power this one up. I had one fall off before on my home stereo and it would not work. I had a loose on my home theather subwoofer and it made a bunch of noise before replacing it.
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The guy refunded me $25. He apologized and said his wife shipped it. He said the RCA jack was missing when he bought it and he used like that. So I guess it worked out.

I originally was going to grab the good circuit board and put in my smokey bandit circuit board to resell it. I still will be using the circuit board for my Bandit., but I think I will just keep it for part or sell the parts off. Anyone need any M50 parts?
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I may could use the power/ground/remote terminal if it's white and in decent condition.
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AVICJR wrote:I may could use the power/ground/remote terminal if it's white and in decent condition.
It's the old style connector. It looks like the speaker terminals.
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I know Bogart might be very interested in it. I'll let him know.
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dgoodhue wrote:
AVICJR wrote:I may could use the power/ground/remote terminal if it's white and in decent condition.
It's the old style connector. It looks like the speaker terminals.
That's what I need. Is it in good shape? PM if you decide to part it out.
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