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ebay should be no smoking!

Jun 14, 2003
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just got a motherboard off EBAY, i didnt need it, and wasnt planning on winning it, but i felt the effects of sods law and my measly £15 bid won.

recieved it today and i gagged when i opened the box......it smells like this guy smoked a million fags right into his computer. its disgusting.

the foam is litterally soaked in stale i love you smoke, the PCB/mobo is covered in dust and pretty much has stale tobacco smoke fused to it. have to keep the box in a cupboard under the stairs it reeks that much
 

FelixDeCat

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Aug 4, 2000
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Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
just got a motherboard off EBAY, i didnt need it, and wasnt planning on winning it, but i felt the effects of sods law and my measly £15 bid won.

recieved it today and i gagged when i opened the box......it smells like this guy smoked a million fags right into his computer. its disgusting.

the foam is litterally soaked in stale i love you smoke, the PCB/mobo is covered in dust and pretty much has stale tobacco smoke fused to it. have to keep the box in a cupboard under the stairs it reeks that much

:laugh:

Can you imagine if they guy was a pothead? I bought a cpu once from someone and the container reaked of weed. Sick.
 
Aug 26, 2004
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Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
just got a motherboard off EBAY, i didnt need it, and wasnt planning on winning it, but i felt the effects of sods law and my measly £15 bid won.

recieved it today and i gagged when i opened the box......it smells like this guy smoked a million fags right into his computer. its disgusting.

the foam is litterally soaked in stale i love you smoke, the PCB/mobo is covered in dust and pretty much has stale tobacco smoke fused to it. have to keep the box in a cupboard under the stairs it reeks that much

:laugh:

Can you imagine if they guy was a pothead? I bought a cpu once from someone and the container reaked of weed. Sick.

i...know someone who shipped something to someone on here a while back and they found a pot seed in the box :laugh:
 

Injury

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Jul 19, 2004
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Originally posted by: quakefiend420
Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
just got a motherboard off EBAY, i didnt need it, and wasnt planning on winning it, but i felt the effects of sods law and my measly £15 bid won.

recieved it today and i gagged when i opened the box......it smells like this guy smoked a million fags right into his computer. its disgusting.

the foam is litterally soaked in stale i love you smoke, the PCB/mobo is covered in dust and pretty much has stale tobacco smoke fused to it. have to keep the box in a cupboard under the stairs it reeks that much

:laugh:


Can you imagine if they guy was a pothead? I bought a cpu once from someone and the container reaked of weed. Sick.

i...know someone who shipped something to someone on here a while back and they found a pot seed in the box :laugh:

I got an XBox off of ebay where, upon cleaning it when I first got it, realized that the previous owner must have spilled his bong water or dip spit all over it. I could never figure it out... lucky for me isopropyl alcohol is awesome. Vacuumed it, doused it, let it dry... was mostly cleaned, runs fine.
 

SagaLore

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Dec 18, 2001
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I find your use of the word "i love you" amusing. Never heard it called that before.
 

pontifex

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Dec 5, 2000
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Originally posted by: SagaLore
I find your use of the word "i love you" amusing. Never heard it called that before.

err...a i love you is a cigarette.

check a dictionary sometime
 
Jun 14, 2003
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Originally posted by: SagaLore
I find your use of the word "i love you" amusing. Never heard it called that before.


sorry we brits use the term i love you alot when refering to ciggs

yes it is also used to mean "gay" but we or at least i just tend to use the word gay to mean gay.


also sods law = murphys law basically the if u think it wont/cant happen it will law
 

moshquerade

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Nov 1, 2001
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Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
just got a motherboard off EBAY, i didnt need it, and wasnt planning on winning it, but i felt the effects of sods law and my measly £15 bid won.

recieved it today and i gagged when i opened the box......it smells like this guy smoked a million fags right into his computer. its disgusting.

the foam is litterally soaked in stale i love you smoke, the PCB/mobo is covered in dust and pretty much has stale tobacco smoke fused to it. have to keep the box in a cupboard under the stairs it reeks that much
that really sucks. maybe note such in his feedback on ebay?

 

eminemrh25

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Feb 21, 2005
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Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
just got a motherboard off EBAY, i didnt need it, and wasnt planning on winning it, but i felt the effects of sods law and my measly £15 bid won.

recieved it today and i gagged when i opened the box......it smells like this guy smoked a million fags right into his computer. its disgusting.

the foam is litterally soaked in stale i love you smoke, the PCB/mobo is covered in dust and pretty much has stale tobacco smoke fused to it. have to keep the box in a cupboard under the stairs it reeks that much

That sucks...

I think it is funny the differences in countries...

In England you say you are gonna smoke a i love you means you are gonna smoke a cigarette
In the US, in some parts, if you say you are gonna smoke a i love you, you are gonna kill some gay person.
 

Spineshank

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Jun 8, 2001
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Did he advertise as being in a smoke filled enviroment? Other wise you didnt really get what you paid for.
 

GasX

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Feb 8, 2001
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Originally posted by: Gnrslash4life
Did he advertise as being in a smoke filled enviroment? Other wise you didnt really get what you paid for.

Unless he claimed it was stench free and assuming it works, it was exactly as advertised.
 

jemcam

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Jan 3, 2001
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Reminds me of a story of a long time ago.

I dated this British chick for a while and she was a smoker. Whenever she lit up, usually when we were drinking, she'd usually hold out her cigarette pack and ask "Fancy a i love you?".

It used to crack me up every time. :)
 

radioouman

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Nov 4, 2002
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I've received electronic parts that reek of smoke. One bag of misc parts that I won smelled like he exhaled a pack into the bag before he shipped it. It stunk up my room for a week!
 

I Saw OJ

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Dec 13, 2004
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My buddy bought a mobo from a local "computer repair shop" in our town. The damn thing smelled like ciggs so bad it stunk up the whole house. The mobo was covered in dirt and the freakin box had ash in it! I mean come on, if you smoke, thats fine, but done make everything else around you crappy with your smokey breath and ash flying all over.