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caveat emptor- bad experiance....
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:26 am
by marko
had a bad experiance on ebay and thought i'd share it as warning to anybody buying "as-is" stuff etc..
was a bad experiance for the whole 2 months it took to arrive, it's a soundstream continuum described as blown and repairable so i paid $171 + shipping to the UK from the states as i always fancied a continuum. i got the run around for 2 months until i started a dispute then a few days later it arrived and this is what i found.....
note- i have not done anything to this amp apart from take the lid off, all the fets are missing apart from 3, most of the bolts that hold the board/fets down are missing, a pwm is missing, a daughter board is missing and that's just what i've found upto press....
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:28 am
by 1moreamp
Morning Marko. Did you make that call? And don't close your dispute, just extend it....C
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:29 am
by marko
1moreamp wrote:Morning Marko. Did you make that call? And don't close your dispute, just extend it....C
not yet, gonna go into my paypal account and takes things further this morning...
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:33 am
by 1moreamp
Whatever you do don't close that dispute, just add to it, once you close a dispute your considered happy and you get no further changes...Good luck my friend, keep me in the loop. I have a local friend that may help some, he was employee number 8 at SoundStream......C
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 1:43 am
by Wakeup
oohh...ouches....good luck marko...and I agree dont close that dispute yet!
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:11 am
by gkitching
Wow! Is that even repairable? Looks like the traces are melted off the board. That is a blatant ripoff! If you don't get some form of restitution I can't say anyone ever would.
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 8:56 am
by mr tibbs
Thanks for the info, I'll make sure and avoid them at all costs.
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:26 am
by nutxo
Thats a shame man in more than one way. First of all Im sorry ya got burned. I hate seeing a great piece like that burned up.
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 10:10 am
by Eric D
I think you can still fix it, but it will be a lot of work.
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 10:13 am
by HoseHead
Well, the "Handcrafted in the U.S.A." part is definitely correct now. Ugly.
HH
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 10:37 am
by stipud
Was that amp repaired by a pre-schooler? My god.
Condolences.
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 10:40 am
by marko
Eric D wrote:I think you can still fix it, but it will be a lot of work.
it's cost as much as a challenge, for a start it needs 50 devices (18 power supply fets and 32 outputs!!) this amp has been raided for parts over the years and god knows what else it needs....
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 11:57 am
by fordtough1
That sucks man. hope you get repaid for it....
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:22 am
by OldSchoolFool
Someone's been raiding the trashbin somewhere.
Good thing PG smashes all the returns with a large hammer, I can't imagine what would turn up with all the tweaks in this town.
Field destruct? Nice idea, but obviously worth the 30 bucks to get the unit back and under the influence of the hammer.
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 6:13 pm
by rlockwood
OldSchoolFool wrote:Someone's been raiding the trashbin somewhere.
Good thing PG smashes all the returns with a large hammer, I can't imagine what would turn up with all the tweaks in this town.
they didnt ten years ago
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:43 pm
by gentlejax2
wow..beyond words...
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:40 am
by Eric D
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:53 am
by marko
thanks eric, idealy need to drop on a ref705 board or a beaten up complete unit and transplant the guts over to my case.
i now have a mint 10.0 case and a continuum case for spares!!
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:35 am
by Eric D
Put a 1000S in the 10.0 case. Aside from the caps on the backside of the board, it should be a drop in.
Re: caveat emptor- bad experiance....
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 3:55 am
by marko
well it's been 3 years almost to the day and i have found and bought a spare board for my Continuum! it also needs work and a lot of parts but is in 10x better shape than the one i have and i think i have most parts to rebuild the psu and outputs
will also fit new rail caps and all new emitters while i'm at it too. pic below of new board on it's way
watch this space!
Re: caveat emptor- bad experiance....
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 8:11 am
by ttocs
wow cool that is clean.
Re: caveat emptor- bad experiance....
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:24 am
by stipud
Is that really how they installed the rail caps?
Re: caveat emptor- bad experiance....
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:27 am
by marko
stipud wrote:Is that really how they installed the rail caps?
that's not how SS did! some amature handicraft's man has been in there...
Re: caveat emptor- bad experiance....
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:52 am
by marko
so while i'm waiting for the board to arrive i thought i'd spend some time getting the sink polished, lots of hard work later and i'm quite happy with the results
bottom plate will need replating though, the plating is pealing on the sides
Re: caveat emptor- bad experiance....
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:55 am
by marko
marko wrote:so while i'm waiting for the board to arrive i thought i'd spend some time getting the sink polished, lots of hard work later and i'm quite happy with the results
damn polished ally/chrome is a real bitch to take pics of! in the end i took the flash off and did it without..
bottom plate will need replating though, the plating is pealing on the sides