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You do it to yourself. I don't even have to try.

I bought a Go-Vibe Petite from Nate. Easy and painless transaction with good communication. I wouldn't hesitate to buy from him again.

I sold Nate a super short RCA-RCA cable. Simple enough transaction, payment sent as Western Union Money Order via Priority mail. Thanks!

Sold a custom low profile LOd to oicdn. He sent me great pics of his setup so it was easy to make it to his spec. Communicated frequently and paid very quickly. Highly recommended!

I bought an iPod from Nate. Smooth transaction. Item was as described.
Recommended Head-Fi'er.

I bought a Ipod Nano. excellent communication, very pleasant, fast shipment and the most important : Product in Perfect condition.
I recommend this person
fred

Purchased a PPA from him, shipping could have been a tad bit faster but overall the amp is great, just like he described and I'd have no problem dealing with him again.

Bought a portable amp from oicdn. No worries about dealing with oicdn! He gave me a fantastic deal, and threw in a pair of Grado SR80's too!!

oicdn goes the extra mile in helping out a newbie Head-fi'er get started in this insane hobby!

Ted

Bought a known to be broken iPod touch from Nate, which he said he was selling because he didn't have Apple Care to get it fixed: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/newrep...reply&t=356479

I took a chance, figuring I'll at least have a spare screen if it can't be fixed, but I was pretty sure it could be fixed for a fair price. I figured maybe it was a power regulator or something that got fried in the power outage. Communication was good and Nate shipped it out immediately, before he picked up the money from Western Union! He even included the original box and accessories, which I was not expecting. The edit to his post adding that stuff was done after I has bought it at 6:55PM. When it arrived that same week, pressing and holding the power button or the power+menu button had no effect, and when I plugged it into the computer it was not recognized by finder or iTunes.

I called Apple and they said it was still under warrantee for another 280 days! Amazed that Nate didn't know this, on Friday I had them send a box out to pick it up, which arrived Tuesday. Unfortunately the case didn't have just "a couple knicks from opening her up to check the battery" - the rear of the case was trashed along to top edge, which I tried to smooth out by rubbing a block of wood against it to bend the metal back in place. It looked much better when I shipped it, but Apple decided it was damaged and abused but not defective, and declined the repair. I don't know if they determined this from the case damage, or from what it looked like inside. I will possibly tear it open just to see what they found that would be deemed "accidental damage or abuse" - they didn't say on the Apple repair website. Or, I may hire a DIY'er to look at it.

Nate, my advice is to call Apple first before you tear into an iPod that may be under warrantee. And, go online or something to find out how to open it properly. Vinnie at RWA opened my iPod to do my iMod without wrecking the case. Or, if you dug into it and that was what damaged it then warn the buyer before they ship it to Apple for repairs, so they don't have to pay Apple for the shipping when it has damage that isn't covered. I assumed it was electrical damage, like something burned up inside.

This is not negative feedback, other than I should have asked for pictures of the "couple of nicks" which in no way describes the appearance when it arrived. Maybe "30-40 nicks" would be more appropriate. I gambled and lost, but I still have a spare screen for $80 total (assuming the screen is not burned out, then all I have is spare glass ).

I finally got around to opening the returned and un-repaired iPod Touch from Apple tonight.

The paper inside says they denied warrantee repair due to, "A diagnostic evaluation has determined the iPod has internal damage related to a liquid spill or contamination."

Now that wasn't in the "disclosure" from Nate when I bought it, thinking I could fix it because it died in a power outage. Hmmm...

Nate borrowed a pair of GS-1000's through my loaner programme. After agreeing to send me pictures of the package before shipping out and agreeing to send airmail with tracking + signature fully insured, he didn't follow through on any of that. It took many phone calls and legal threats to get him to do anything. He even fabricated a story indicating he had sent them UPS and had them returned to him, never producing a single shread of evidence.

Finally, when the next person received the phones, they were resting on her door step when she returned home from work. Something that would have been impossible with a signature upon delivery.