Ebay WD20EAD drive rip off

From what I read here and elsewhere, the WDTLER tool will enable TLER on EAD drives.
 
Priddle said:
From what I read here and elsewhere, the WDTLER tool will enable TLER on EAD drives.
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I think you're correct.

Looks like the EARS and the 15EADS units, as of 6/13, have no user settings for TLER.

Sorry, I got my EA's all buggered-up! :D
 
Thats the problem with buying the EADs now is you might not get one prior 6/13.

I'll have to keep an eye open for Hitachi or Sammy drives. I need 4-5.
 
Thread because you didnt like someones ebay price? srsly?

Quit being a whiny baby.
 
Old Hippie said:
I think you're correct.

Looks like the EARS and the 15EADS units, as of 6/13, have no user settings for TLER.

Sorry, I got my EA's all buggered-up! :D
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Do you have a source on the date? I am trying to secure some EADS now.

p.s. I just thought the auction was amusing.
 
I too get frustrated with sellers with unreasonable prices. Although in the end most of the time the market will not bare ridiculous prices like that anyways and the product goes unsold or gets re listed for a more reasonable price.
 
Beware of sellers of these on ebay that sound too good to be true... I should have known

I made an offer of $90 each for (2) wd20eads drives, when I received them I ran the SN and they came back as having been removed from 2tb mybooks.. in other words they had no mfg warranty.

I'm still fighting with the seller to get my $ back
 
tojoski said:
Beware of sellers of these on ebay that sound too good to be true... I should have known

I made an offer of $90 each for (2) wd20eads drives, when I received them I ran the SN and they came back as having been removed from 2tb mybooks.. in other words they had no mfg warranty.

I'm still fighting with the seller to get my $ back
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You made me pull one of the six drives I got for under 90 dollars each a few weeks ago and check the serial. Thank god, full warranty. Shipping wasn't so great though...
 
I finally got my refund last night, but it was a fight to the end.

It was very odd, the drives had a mfg. date of June 2010, but WD showed that they had been removed from externals... The seller claims he buys them in bulk and has no way to know of their origin.
 
It was very odd, the drives had a mfg. date of June 2010, but WD showed that they had been removed from externals...
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They may have sold those drives cheaply to be installed in externals.

Sometimes the model number isn't exactly the same as the retail/OEM drives and that would also be a red flag.
 
I was not pleased with the shipping, and I essentially contacted them for what amounted to a pre-order. So he placed a special auction for 6 at around 90 dollars each after BCB and I bit with the ship date about two weeks later. He was essentially pre-selling the shipment he ordered through who knows how.

here was the shipping. PM me if you want his ID, maybe he still has a few.
 
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