When browsing various auction sites in different languages, one thing that strikes me is the absurd amount of people selling an item while saying in the info that they "don't know if it works". How on God's green earth would this be possible? If you're trying to sell a mixer, a portastudio or a pedal, exactly how difficult is it to check if the thing is broken? Usually, of course, this isn't revealed in the initial listing, but you have to read the detailed description to all of a sudden be informed that it's basically a piece of junk, that may contain spare parts. Because surely it must be the case every single time that
a) it's simply a burnt out husk that is being peddled, and
b) the idiot selling it thinks that some poor moron will surmise something like "AHA, finally a Trumpesque deal of a life time - he hasn't even CHECKED if it works, surely it must!"
This has annoyed me to such a degree, and is so common, that I am now trying to calm myself by finding a rational explanation. Have you ever sold a piece of equipment without bothering, or "being able to" (as some say) check if it works? If so - why/how? Or must we simply, as I suspect, add these people to the list of those destined for the lamp posts?
