🚀 go-pugleaf

I was sold a vanta
and the sales lady said "its a tnt2 for $165"
I assumed it to be the real thing
I said "yes please"

anyway
now that I have it
its not that BAD A CARD

REALLY !!

I only have a 15" screen
and by the time I can afford a 19"
the geforce will be affordable too
lol
(dream on)













Mark wrote in message <37de19d5.15497978@news.ucdavis.edu>...
>On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 02:11:21 GMT, Kevin Behn <kmbehn@2xtreme.net>
>wrote the following that was on his/her mind at the time:
>
><snip>
>>Anyway, I was defending Best Data, but if
>>you actually *read* my post, I stated that I was defending them simply
because
>>they had done nothing wrong,
>
>I think you have to practice reading comprehensively. THEY made a
>false claim on a retail product, that not only me, but many others
>would have fallen for. Try telling that to the FTC that there is
>nothing wrong with that. Maybe you just have misread my ORIGINAL
>post, if that is the case then you should be ashame of yourself.
>
>>or at least appeared to have done nothing wrong
>>according to what Mark had related at that time.  Someone who buys a
cheapo card
>>and then finds out to his suprise that it was a cheapo card, is not that
>>connected in the real world...I think I used the phrase "an idiot"  He
then
>>wrote, "do I sense a lawsuit?"  This implies that he was going to sue Best
Data
>>for selling a cheap product for cheap.  That pissed me off.  It's akin to
a
>
>If you didn't get the "do I sense a lawsuit?" then your are true sad.
>HP has been working you too hard. I stated that because I was
>referring to the false claim, BUT never had in the post had I had the
>stubborness/seriousness to sue them. I was only kiddin.
>
>>burglar sueing the homeowner for hurting his back as he stole the person's
TV.
>>It's a BS lawsuit...it's laughable.  So I told the guy what I thought.  I
then
>>said that since Fry's has a 30 day return policy, simply return the thing,
end
>>of story, where's the problem.
>
>You digging yourself too deep into your own little bung hole. Even in
>the very first post I said I was just going to return it and get a
>refund. unlike Sean that had to drive 30miles to do that, I don't have
>to go out of my way to return it.
>
>>If I was a business that was trying to make a profit, say a car
dealership, and
>>I offered a Honda Accord for 2 grand, would you be suprised if the car was
an
>>'88 instead of a '99.  No, you wouldn't.  The phrase is you get what you
pay
>>for.
>
>Like Sean, if they advertised that car in the paper as a '99 model for
>$2000, and ppl come in and found out that it was only a '88 model than
>that would piss anyone off, that is the bottom line. A False claim is
>a FALSE claim. period. Now then there is you, Kevin Behn,that goes on
>to defend BEST DATA and say that "they had done nothing wrong."
>You guys see where I am getting at??
>If I am a idiot for being a sucker thinking this was a good price,
>Then Kevin is the biggest jack ass in the world. Notice that I am not
>even done with half of this reply and I am having to repeat myself
>over and over again, but not only that BUT you are rearranging my
>words and saying that I was too dumb to know that I could never buy a
>TNT2 for $100, and that I could never buy a 99 honda for 2000$, in the
>real world. What other world do you live in besides this one?
>
>>If this guy wanted a real TNT2, he would need to pay for it...ie about
>>$150 (up to $250 for a retail V770 Ultra).  The point is that you need to
note
>>how this price is significantly more than $100.  And again, this guy was
>>suprised that he wasn't getting the nicer item.  So again, I pointed out
that he
>>wasn't exactly grounded by calling him "an idiot" for thinking that he was
>
>read above, I am getting tired of repeating myself.
>
>>supposed to get the $150-$250 card for $100.  Now, if they did indeed call
the
>>M64 a 128 bit card, then that is fraud, and Best Data does need to fix
that.
>>It's also very possible that someone returned an M64 in a TNT2 box, and
Mark
>>bought that, but I don't know.  Stay away from the Fry's return sticker,
incase
>>some people don't know this.
>
>Oh my gosh you actually came over to my side and saw what I was trying
>to get at. THEY, Best Data, PUT A M64 card in a TNT2 box. At this
>point there might be some focus on what if they just really
>unintentionally put a M64 in a TNT2 box. That could happen, but it
>this is not the case as another poster had the very same problem.
>
>>Also, Shing said something like, "What kind of person will start personal
attack
>>like this? I don't know you but i don't think expressing one's own opinion
on
>>the web should get this kind of rude reply."
>
>I understand what Shing is trying to do. Kevin and I know that Kevin
>is a d.a. and he is just trying to get noticed.
>
>>To this I say, I agree, why were you being rude to me?  Again, have your
friend
>>explain it to you if you don't follow me.  (Something along the lines he
was
>>expressing his opinion of himself and a business, and I was expressing my
>>opinion of him, learn to deal with it.)
>>
>>Then Shing said, "it is not Mark's fault to fall in it. After all there is
>>nothing mentioning it."
>>
>>It is Mark's fault, hence my point.  If Best Data was being fraudulent,
then
>>they need to fix it and compensate for losses.  But my point is, "Buyer
>>beware".  It is, and always has been, part of the free market.  Any market
for
>
>Oh Kevin you had it for a moment and now you have loss it. One more
>time: THEY, Best Data, PUT A M64 card in a TNT2 box.
>Yes Best Data is being fraudulent, Yes they need to fix it and
>compensate for losses. "But" ?? Wow. even after that you are still
>defending them.
>
>>that matter.  And there was, indeed, something mentioning it...the price.
>>Again, if someone sold me a two thousand dollar car, I would never expect
it to
>>be a '98 or '99.  Why you ask, because common sense tells you that.
>
>Your common sense needs tweaking. Ex:
>Recent Salvaged titles are lucky if they even sell at that price.
>
>>Anyway, Mark, if the box said that it was a 128 bit TNT2, then you were
mislead,
>>but you still should have thought that something was afoot simply because
the
>>price seemed too good to be true.  You found out later that the price was
indeed
>>too good to be true.  Okay, enough on that.
>
>You say mislead like it was no big deal. And then you go on to say
>that I should have for some unknown reason should not have brought the
>product because even thought it CLAIM to be a REAL TNT2 card, it just
>might not be.
>"if the box said that it was a 128 bit TNT2, then you were mislead,
>but you still should have thought that something was afoot"
>
>Some things afoot alright. This one is too easy. Fill in the blank
>__here__. ;-)
>I know you will post another "you should have know..." So here is my
>respond to your simulated future post: (prediction gathered from past
>posts)
>
>Kevin-"But like I said before you were just too ignorant of the
>subject to know that that should not have been a TNT2 card."
>
>Mark-"I can't seem to win with your single tracked mind. Say what you
>will. But you don't know wtf you are talking about. Good day."
>
>You can ask your friends what "wtf" means if needed. Why am I still
>replying? Because Kevin needs to see the light.
>I think that about covers it, for now. ;-)
>Don't you just love usenet?