Heres an update since yesterday:
1) Place to live - Solved. I've bunked in with a friend, and taken over his living room as a bedroom. We're installing a door, moving some of his furniture out, et cetera. The rent I can afford (a little over $400 a month), at least more than I can afford it anywhere else.
2) Job - Not solved. Still working on this 24/7. 7 applications sent, visiting various places on Monday when they re-open (Computerstore, f.ex).
3) Food to eat - Solved. Thanks to the overwhelming response that I recieved on putting up a donation link, I have enough money to pay for food the entire next month. I can't possibly word how appreciative I am, to the people who graciously sent me money. You really are lifesavers. I hope that I can, at the least, continue to keep my presence here at BYOND and help whereever I can.
4) Money to pay bills - Some of the money for food needs to go to this, obviously, since no paying bills = biig trouble. Cancelling non-vital things where ever possible, but rent, cellphone(to get job) and debt are the vital ones. I sold my PS3 last month to get money to pay for food/rent, and apparently its broken - So that hurts as a sudden new expense of about $800.
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 Sep 20 2008, 5:05 pm
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I would not pay them $800. When you sell someone something it is sold as-is. If it broke after it left your possession that is their problem, not yours. You're in a mini-crises right now, you have no time for their stupidity.
On a side note, you never mentioned how your fever was? Still roasting marshmallows? | |
The sale was to a friend, I trust him when he says it was broken when he got it. He's fronted plenty of money and expenses on my behalf over the past half year. And $800 is about $200 under the cost of a new PS3, and it has a 250GB HDD and can play PS2 games (and is a US-edition).
Yeah, still roasting away - Slightly better, but going down dreadfully slow. Every bit of fever is getting replaced by sore throat, but thats a good thing. Ah well. Me being ill is the least of my problems lately, I'm doped on some form of painkiller anyhow ;) | |
Then give him money to fix it, rather than taking it back :P. The blu ray laser costs about 150$ USD, and it can't get much higher than that for anything else with it's price.
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Well, its randomly rebooting at different points. It could be the HDD, it could be something else - Its not under warranty and spending $150 and finding out its *not* the laser would suck. Anyhow, I'm stalling on that as much as I can. But he's a good friend and I've had it at my place for 4 months since he payed the 3500DKK, so he's getting understandably angry by now.
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Well, if he sent it in, they would tell him how much the repairs cost. Then you can give him the money; I'd rather do that and make 50$ rather than taking it back and making nothing.
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Wait, they're charging you for selling them something that broke after you sold it? And more than how much a new PS3 costs? (Disregard this if you live somewhere with a currency that is worth less than the US dollar, like Canada)