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In article <sasrer.819398957@sas.com>, sasrer@unx.sas.com says...
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>>> Because you somehow felt that I was responsible for you dropping the
>>> SIMMS I sold you, and then you felt compelled to post this, you may 
take 
>>> your SIMMS, and call Microtech and get your own replacements.
>>> My schedule doesn't always conform to yours, however, I was still 
willing
>>> to send your chips that YOU DROPPED back to the manufacturer at my 
expense.
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>I came in a little late on this thread and didn't see the original posts, 
but from 
>what I gleaned from the articles I did read, the buyer dropped some 
SIMMs, later reported
>them not working and the seller is not refunding the money (or making 
good some other
>way) because he blamed the buyer for dropping the SIMMs.
>
>Is this an accurate assessment of the problem?
>
>I doubt very seriously that dropping a SIMM will break it in any way. The 
only way they
>can be broken by dropping them is to have them dropped with such force to 
either break
>the circuit board or to break a trace on the SIMM board - both of which 
can be easily
>found with a magnifying glass.  Given the light weight of a SIMM, the 
durability of them,
>and a supposition that they were only dropped 3-4' (I assumed the person 
dropped them 
>to the floor while holding them, so I chose an average height of 3-4'), I 
believe the
>probabily of the chips being damaged by the fall to be VERY LOW, and it 
is much higher
>that the SIMMs were either damaged being removed from the working 
equipment, damaged
>while installing them in the new equipment, or damaged by not taking 
proper ESD
>precautions when handling the SIMMs.
>
>Note that I do not know either the buyer or the seller in this 
arrangement so I have
>no vested interest. However, the buyer's contention that the SIMMs were 
damaged from
>the fall just seems ludicrous at best.
>
>Of course, this is just my opinion...  *smile*
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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 
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I'm not sure what happened, but I bought stuff from him with no problem.  
He's an easy enough guy to get along with.