bclarkie wrote:It would help if I could see it for myself, but IMHO the fact that the seals on all sides are so uneven puts up a big red flag for a reshrink job to me. TBH, it really reminds me of the load of shrinked I1's I picked up over a year ago, that I asked about here:viewtopic.php?t=2760&highlight=shrinkI am fairly certain that after looking through all the other items that I have now and have in the past sold, that those I1's were probably reshrinked.
Beyondthebreach wrote:Check out the Acaeum scan of the 2nd-3rd print X1.
bclarkie wrote:Okay I just did. The scan is a bit too trimmed, but I can see that it is shrinked. It also only shows one seal unlike the picture that you have which shows 3. On top of that, I am not sure that even if it was identical to yours, that it does not mean that the one on the site isn't reshinked as well.
FWIW, here are a few other pictures of the aforementioned I14:
It would help if I could see it for myself, but IMHO the fact that the seals on all sides are so uneven puts up a big red flag for a reshrink job to me. TBH, it really reminds me of the load of shrinked I1's I picked up over a year ago, that I asked about here: viewtopic.php?t=2760&highlight=shrink I am fairly certain that after looking through all the other items that I have now and have in the past sold, that those I1's were probably reshrinked.
I purchased a C1 from this very seller (kitdude) that Gary mentions.. I haven't paid for it yet.. but I'm probably headed for some bad news.
napoleonsdad wrote:Not necessarily. Two other s/w items came frm a separate order from this seller and they were original. For that matter, I opened the X1 because of the doubt and the module is as new as can be. So it's my best guess that the wrap was original.
bclarkie wrote:There is always the possibility that the rewrapping was done due to the fact that the original factory wrap was too tattered or torn signifigantly. I have seen circumstances where the FLGS has done that. The item is effectively new, but due to the fact that the original wrap is falling off, torn, etc. they tear off what left of the original shrinkwrap and then reshrink it so that it appears as new.