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>: I doubt very seriously that dropping a SIMM will break it in any way.
>Nobody said it was broken, but if you INSIST on coming in in the middle
>of a posting which has already been cancelled by the poster, the SIMMS were
>BRAND NEW, and were dropped from about four feet onto a tiled floor.

and then later you said...

>Besides you are missing the point, which is: Why should a seller refund
>money when the buyer drops the merchandise? I am sure that a store-owner
>would laugh at the prospect of refunding for a purchase because the
>buyer drops and damages/breaks the merchandise going out of the front door.

If I was to drop a sweater in a clothing store, I would get full refund
for the sweater (if it wasn't dirty) since I have not damaged it. If I
dropped a vase and it shattered, then your logic would be correct. So the
issue is not whether the item was dropped, but whether the buyer damaged
the merchandise. My point earlier is that there is a very slim chance that
dropping the SIMMs would damage them. 

You mentioned static discharge as a possibility, and I even brought that up
in my post (maybe you didn't recognize the acronym ESD). But I doubt you
will get much of a static discharge through a tiled floor...  *smile*

Btw, the original posting was not cancelled by the poster at *my* site. And
I was only trying to point out from the view of someone who has worked with
lots of chips/simms before, designing/building/fixing/upgrading computers
that dropping a SIMM and it later being bad is not proof that dropping it was
the cause of the problem. In fact, it is much more likely the SIMMs were
damaged in other ways by the seller or the buyer. In fact, I even listed more
plausible ways the SIMMs could be damaged and still be the buyers fault, so 
I am not trying to place blame, just point out what I consider a major fault
in your argument that it is not your fault.

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Rodney Radford,    Senior Systems Developer, Advanced Visualization Division
sasrer@unx.sas.com SAS Institute, Inc, Cary, NC 27513  (919) 677-8000 x7703
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