I finally got tired of the “small” LCDs I had at work and set out to buy a pair of Dell 2001FPs like I had at Giganews. Through eBay I found a local liquidator that had a warehouse full of ’em and made a visit to them today. I hadn’t put a purchase through on eBay yet and their sales guy wasn’t there to make the sale. I told one of the guys in the warehouse “ah ha, no problem, I’ll just buy them on ebay right quick on my iPhone.” eBay site browsing was oddly slow, perhaps due to shoddy 3G reception. After several minutes of fiddling through the site, I had put in an order for my LCDs. The misstep came at checkout when sending money with PayPal. In a bit of a hurry I had selected eCheck to complete the transaction and quickly realized it wasn’t an instant transfer. “Funds will be released on October 21.” argh! No new loot, I had to leave like a yuppie fool.
I did score some Dell rails at another place today. I’m one step closer to reviving aeris in our NJ colo and say goodbye to The Planet.
