The [H]ardForum Perpetual Freebies Thread

Personally, I'd rather spend a little bit more and get it from a legit company supporting a legit supply chain, even though it still probably comes from the ccp, although I've seen a lot more taiwan and vietnam electronics lately. Or the ccp is just labeling that way, which is a common and easy scam.
I actually just negged an Ebay seller, and I don't do that lightly, I was shopping on Ebay to avoid feeding Bezos, paid $5 extra, and then the item arrived in Amazon bubblepack. The dude essentially pocketed my $5 and laughed at my attempt to resist...this fucking world man...
 
I actually just negged an Ebay seller, and I don't do that lightly, I was shopping on Ebay to avoid feeding Bezos, paid $5 extra, and then the item arrived in Amazon bubblepack. The dude essentially pocketed my $5 and laughed at my attempt to resist...this fucking world man...
It's a race to the bottom imo and getting worse every day. I don't know when people will wake up and look to value more than just the transaction because if you still do then there's fuckers like this that come along and pee on your intentions. :mad:
 
I actually just negged an Ebay seller, and I don't do that lightly, I was shopping on Ebay to avoid feeding Bezos, paid $5 extra, and then the item arrived in Amazon bubblepack. The dude essentially pocketed my $5 and laughed at my attempt to resist...this fucking world man...
I reuse Amazon packing materials when I ship ebay sales, maybe that seller does too?
 
Does anyone happen to have a good working condition USB 3.5" floppy drive and some working 3.5" HD 1.44MB media that they want to get rid of for the cost of shipping? I've come into some old Sony Mavica FD cameras that use 3.5" floppies as the storage medium and I need a floppy disk reader with some good medium to get this going. Figured I ask here before I head over to Fleabay for it.
 
Also, An Earthwatts EA380 PSU; has been on mostly 24/7 for a lot of years in a home server and worked ok, but had some issues with a modern board (b550) (would turn off while idle, stopped happening when I replaced the PSU and the heatsink, but probably the PSU). I cut the 3.3v on one of the sata connectors. Was 80+ rated back when that was cool.

In the seattle area, would prefer not to ship the PSU because it's bigish, but I can if someone is interested/desperate.
I still have two of those PSUs as well. They were rebadged Seasonics if memory serves and when new could be had for quite cheap. Both of mine should still work as they were working when I pulled them maybe a couple of years ago. I had them running socket 775 era hardware for the most part.
 
I actually just negged an Ebay seller, and I don't do that lightly, I was shopping on Ebay to avoid feeding Bezos, paid $5 extra, and then the item arrived in Amazon bubblepack. The dude essentially pocketed my $5 and laughed at my attempt to resist...this fucking world man...
I'm pretty sure that negative feedback will be going away if he appeals it. Who cares where he got an item from.
 
That Is frankly alarming. I know dozens of ebay sellers dropshipping from china claiming a USA location. Ever heard of Orangeconnex? They are a dedicated dropshipper for the chinese market. Seller in China has a good. They can sell it locally on taobao, aliexpress tmall etc..or they can sell it on ebay china or ebay USA through a fake USA address. They set up an ebay account in china, register and then later change their registered address to some random location in USA, many times california. Person in USA thinks they are buying good from a USA seller. Person in USA buys good. Chinese seller sends to orangeconnex, orangeconnex ships it direct to consumer. It is the definition of dropshipping. The seller in china is operating a fradulant account, saying they are located in the states, when in fact they are in china using discounted shipping services that somehow the USPS is fronting the bill on because the region the item is shipping from is considered a developing country.
 
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That Is frankly alarming. I know dozens of ebay sellers dropshipping from china claiming a USA location. Ever heard of Orangeconnex? They are a dedicated dropshipper for the chinese market. Seller in China has a good. They can sell it locally on taobao, aliexpress tmall etc..or they can sell it on ebay china or ebay USA through a fake USA address. They set up an ebay account in china, register and then later change their registered address to some random location in USA, many times california. Person in USA thinks they are buying good from a USA seller. Person in USA buys good. Chinese seller sends to orangeconnex, orangeconnex ships it direct to consumer. It is the definition of dropshipping. The seller in china is operating a fradulant account, saying they are located in the states, when in fact they are in china using discounted shipping services that somehow the USPS is fronting the bill on because the region the item is shipping from is considered a developing country.
And this is the ethical quandry of working with 'developing nations' because the business ethics in that part of the world are basically none. When you engage with that, you have to deal with that, and frankly I don't--that's why I'm not in a developing nation. F these third world business tactics--we don't want that in the first world and anyone gaming the system to circumvent that barrier should be blocked from this part of the world. And our lust for cheap chinese goods is what put us in this situation, closing our own domestic businesses, employment, and local economy to be dependent on the ccp, so the power is still on our hands to just not buy from these crooks and they will stay in their part of the world.
 
Does anyone happen to have a good working condition USB 3.5" floppy drive and some working 3.5" HD 1.44MB media that they want to get rid of for the cost of shipping? I've come into some old Sony Mavica FD cameras that use 3.5" floppies as the storage medium and I need a floppy disk reader with some good medium to get this going. Figured I ask here before I head over to Fleabay for it.

I have a crate of NoS 3.5" 1.44M floppies. I can send you a couple of packs of them if you still need them. I can't guarantee they'll all work since they're almost 20 years old. The few I've tried work, but YMMV.

I'll need to find a box of some sort to put them in.
 
I have a crate of NoS 3.5" 1.44M floppies. I can send you a couple of packs of them if you still need them. I can't guarantee they'll all work since they're almost 20 years old. The few I've tried work, but YMMV.

I'll need to find a box of some sort to put them in.
Sounds good, I'll take whatever you want to get rid of that will fit within probably a USPS padded envelope, I probably don't need any more than that. YGPM
 
Free, just pay shipping which probably won't be super cheap due to size/weight. Flat rate may be the easiest if I can find a box, otherwise I'll see what I have.

Intel NUC7i7DNH
No ram, No HDD, only includes the box and a generic power brick.

Story: Boots fine, once. Fight with it for hours but it refuses to boot, reboot or anything resembling working. Throw it in a drawer and it'll boot just find, only to start the frustrating process all over again. I'm done troubleshooting this and I want it to go away. I guess it might be ok if you get it to boot and actually leave it running but YMMV on getting it to boot at all even once. I've tried swapping ram, power supplies, drives, you name it. I'm done with this thing.
 
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Free, just pay shipping which probably won't be super cheap due to size/weight. Flat rate may be the easiest if I can find a box, otherwise I'll see what I have.

Intel NUC7i7DNH
No ram, No HDD, only includes the box and a generic power brick.

Story: Boots fine, once. Fight with it for hours but it refuses to boot, reboot or anything resembling working. Throw it in a drawer and it'll boot just find, only to start the frustrating process all over again. I'm done troubleshooting this and I want it to go away. I guess it might be ok if you get it to boot and actually leave it running but YMMV on getting it to boot at all even once. I've tried swapping ram, power supplies, drives, you name it. I'm done with this thing.
Pm on the NUC
 
Free, just pay shipping which probably won't be super cheap due to size/weight. Flat rate may be the easiest if I can find a box, otherwise I'll see what I have.

Intel NUC7i7DNH
No ram, No HDD, only includes the box and a generic power brick.

Story: Boots fine, once. Fight with it for hours but it refuses to boot, reboot or anything resembling working. Throw it in a drawer and it'll boot just find, only to start the frustrating process all over again. I'm done troubleshooting this and I want it to go away. I guess it might be ok if you get it to boot and actually leave it running but YMMV on getting it to boot at all even once. I've tried swapping ram, power supplies, drives, you name it. I'm done with this thing.

PM on the nuc
 
Love to hear what the fix ends up being on that NUC (as I'm sure Gillbot will too). (y)
 
For maximum entertainment purpose, if someone is going to shoot it with a .50, at least do it with a .50 API round and record it in slow motion. :)

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Anyone got a socket 1155 quad core and/or ddr3 ram they aren’t using? I’m trying to upgrade my dad’s PC so he can play Red Dead Redemption 2. He’s pretty much bedridden now so has started playing games again. The first game is one of his all time favorites so I want to get him set up to play the second. Surprisingly he already has an RX560 which can play it but the 2 core no hyperthreading Pentium and 4gb of ram aren’t up to the task.
 
Logan M I have a few non-matching sticks of ddr3, looks like (2) 4gb and (1) 8gb. LMK if you still need them.
 

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What size sticks? I've got plenty of 2GB sticks if you need 4.
Hey someone had a couple 4gb sticks so I’m going to go for those. Thank you for the generous offer though!
Logan M I have a few non-matching sticks of ddr3, looks like (2) 4gb and (1) 8gb. LMK if you still need them.
That’d be great I’d definitely take those 2x4gb sticks if you’d be willing. Then he’d be up to 12gbs which is the recommended spec.
 
Anyone got a socket 1155 quad core and/or ddr3 ram they aren’t using? I’m trying to upgrade my dad’s PC so he can play Red Dead Redemption 2. He’s pretty much bedridden now so has started playing games again. The first game is one of his all time favorites so I want to get him set up to play the second. Surprisingly he already has an RX560 which can play it but the 2 core no hyperthreading Pentium and 4gb of ram aren’t up to the task.
Ram is taken care of with a very generous offer from kyang357 and one from Fenris_Ulf as well. Just looking to see if anyone has an old quad core sitting around now. Thanks so much everyone you’re gonna make a grumpy old man smile. 😁
 
Looking for literally any sata SSD, size doesn't matter as long as it's more than 10GBs LOL.

Purpose is for a pfsense box, the existing disk in the rack case I got is a standard HDD
 
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