filthy pigs


i swear just when i thought i'd seen it all,last year i bought a mcintosh mc7100 from ebay & put it in the closet till i got around to messin with it,i tested it but that was as far as i got,just today i opened the box & started messin with it gettin it ready for resale,i took the cover off to have a peek & discovered cigarette ashes inside,how & the hell can you be such a pig as to get ashes inside a peice of gear,i have a mental picture of some old hag stirrin a pot of slop with a cig hangin out of her mouth.

ive seen alot of nasty gear & im pretty sure one peice i had a few years back even had a booger on it but the ashes took the cake now its got me wondering about bugs & mice,im gonna start opening everything i buy on the front porch incase somthing leaps out at me.

whats the filthiest peice you've bought?

mike.
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Dean knows all the good spots:)

Actually, 20.00 will still do it in some towns. Just don't ask to check gender!
hey dean,you know the best thing about those pesky $15 hookers is you dont have to worry about teeth gettin in the way.
Gunbei,

If you want the biggest "bang" for your buck, you gotta go with the $20 hookers. That's where diminishing returns kick in. :>)
Sorry I don’t have any hooker, etc. jokes, but have a Mac joke as you’ll see. Maybe it is just Mac gear that gets filthy?

Purchased a MINT MR-78 McIntosh tuner on ebay. After the seller shipped the package, he emailed that the MINT tuner was on the way and that by the way, two of the feet underneath the chassis were broken off from the chassis.

The package arrived & when I opened the box, I swore someone was smoking inside due to the intense reeking of nicotine. The entire MIINT tuner, both the exterior and the interior circuit boards, were encased in stains from who knows how many years and how many cigarettes. Took me several hours to remove the exterior stains. Could not do anything about the interior stains or the smell.

The manual arrived later in the mail and wouldn’t you know it, someone was smoking inside the manila envelope that the instructions came in.

I contacted the seller indicating that the tuner was in lousy condition and not even close to MINT due to the stains and the broken feet and other problems. And that he should have asked if I wanted the MINT tuner prior to shipping when he realized the feet were broken. His response, “Oh, that’s my father, he’s a heavy smoker. A little smoke won’t hurt the tuner.” And although he took pictures of the MINT tuner, he was not aware that the feet were broken off and had “only discovered this when he was packaging” the tuner. And that it was such a minor issue, he sent the tuner without asking if it was OK with me. Obviously his definition of MINT differs from mine.