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Powermac for sale?
February 28th 2007 at 2:53 pm
Someone asked if I’d show the eBay listing for the old Powermac I was selling to help offset a bit of the new Mac Pro’s cost.
It’s a G4 AGP Powermac with a dual processor 1.3 gigahertz Powerlogix upgrade and 2 gigabytes of ram, a 7200 rpm 120 gig hard drive, and a ATI Radeon Pro 9800 256 megabyte video card.
I have no idea what it will sell for, but it’s pretty tricked out and hopefully I get some nibbles. If I hadn’t turned into such a power user with voice dictation and video editing it would still keep pace, but I’m a bit of a complete power hog.
6:00am: Or not, eBay locked down my account and claimed I was a third party attempting to spoof and hijack my own eBay account and freaked out. After forcing me to change my email address to match my PayPal address it went all security lock down on me because the two were different. No duh. But it wouldn’t let me list until I’d changed my email. Not smooth guys. Not smooth at all. It’s all in limbo right now, although I send a terse email with credentials to their security dept.
7:17am: Still can’t access my own eBay account. Friggin’ idiots.
3:54 pm: Okay, after 3 chats with eBay live where I had the security block lifted after a very long conversation where I had to prove myself, another to get the item relisted, and another to re-reset my password, I’m finally back in. Let’s try this again.
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