Blain

I bought an external enclosure from Dave.

Blain was the Buyer on October 17, 2005 AnandTech

Nice price,
Good communication,
Fast shipping,
Well packed...
Great deal with a Great trader!

I sold Rachel an XMS DIMM.

Blain was the Seller on October 3, 2003 AnandTech

She paid proptly via PayPal.
No problems at all.
:)

I bought SOF 2 from Brian.

Blain was the Buyer on November 11, 2002 AnandTech

Good price,
Good communication,
Easy to deal with,
Fast shipping.
Just the way a deal is supposed to happen.

:)

I bought a GF4 card from Jim.

Blain was the Buyer on August 30, 2002 AnandTech

We had made a deal for a cross-ship. But I discovered the MB I was going to ship was defective. The swap was off. He had already shipped the card when I found out about the MB problem. But Jim was extremely cool about it and let me PayPal him some funds for the card.
He's a fast shipper who packs very well.
Great deal with a Great trader!
:)

I bought a HS/fan from David.

Blain was the Buyer on December 29, 2003 Other/Unknown

Once again, a GREAT deal from a GREAT trader!
:)

I purchased an ATI AGP card from Konstantin.

Blain was the Buyer on December 1, 2010 AnandTech

He came throught with another good deal.
Communication, price and shipping were all first rate.
:)

I bought an XP upgrade OS from Paul.

Blain was the Buyer on August 5, 2006 AnandTech

Very nice Price,
Good Communication,
Fast Shipping...
Grade-A deal with a Grade-A trader! :)

I bought an MP 1800 from him, but read on.

Blain was the Buyer on August 30, 2002 AnandTech

Two problems (if you want to call them that), with this transaction...

1. Communication after I made payment was nonexistent until after the package arrived. I PM'd and e-mailed him several times.
In his defence, he stated...
"I have recently been robbed, my computer is gone... I just wanted to reassure everyone that there packages have been sent and I will be back and running in about 2 days with a replacement computer. I will try and get back to all your PMs by that time."

2. He wasn't able to get to the post office on the day of payment but said...
"I just didn't get a car or a ride in time. I will still pack it up and drop it in a FedEx drop box... they should take it Tuesday morning"
The package arrived via first class mail, not FedEx.
Not a huge deal since it still arrived in a week.

I've tried to be fair in this evaluation. The MP was a great deal. But the other issues with the transaction made the whole thing less than stellar. I understand that sometimes "things just happen". That's why I'm still giving him a positive evaluation.

I bought a 9600GT card from Gene.

Blain was the Buyer on December 31, 2009 AnandTech

Fair price, Good communication, Fast shipping, Well packed...
You can\'t ask for anything more than that.
Grade-A deal with a Grade-A trader!

I sold Marc a couple of Windows OS.

Blain was the Seller on April 1, 2004 AnandTech

He needed them, I had them.
We decided on price and payment method.
Payment arrive very quickly.
Great deal with a Great trader! :)

I sold John some PC4000 memory.

Blain was the Seller on February 18, 2007 AnandTech

The memory was questionable, so I shipped first. It didn\'t work in his system, but hes was able to RMA it.
Since the DIMMs were questionable I gave him a couple of payment options. He ended up paying me a good price for it.
Good communication,
Fast payment after RMA...
Great deal with a Great trader! :)

I bought a dual port NIC from SwiftWind.

Blain was the Buyer on August 4, 2006 AnandTech

Great Price,
Easy to work with,
Fast Shipping,
Grade-A deal with a Grade-A trader! :)

I bought a mess-O floppy drives from him.

Blain was the Buyer on September 15, 2002 AnandTech

cherrytwist sold me a bundle of floppy drives for a great price. You always need a floppy from time to time... right?
Anyway, a Great deal with a Great trader!
:)

I bought some classic VHS flicks from Jen.

Blain was the Buyer on February 23, 2007 AnandTech

Very nice price,
Good communication,
Fast shipping,
Well packed...
Great deal with a Great Trader! :)

Swapped some RAM for his DVDs.

Cross-traded on August 26, 2005 AnandTech

Grade A swap Great trader Fast shipping Well packed.
Good Deal! :)

I sold him Rob a P3-850.

Blain was the Seller on September 4, 2002 AnandTech

The deal was easy as pie. Rob is a nice guy to do business with.
Fast payment, good communication...
Great deal with a Great trader!
:)

I sold Johnnie a V3.

Blain was the Seller on February 15, 2002 AnandTech

Johnnie PayPaled me, I shipped.
Good deal with a good trader!

I bought some CDs from ai42.

Blain was the Buyer on October 30, 2003 AnandTech

Good CDs at a good price.
Good communication.
Packed well.
Good deal with a Good trader :)

I bought a CD-RW drive from alm99

Blain was the Buyer on March 7, 2002 AnandTech

I paid via PayPal,
alm99 shipped a well packed package with all the contents promised.
Good deal with a Good trader!

I bought a retail Teac burner from Jeff.

Blain was the Buyer on December 30, 2001 AnandTech

We agreed on a cross-ship...
My check & his burner.
The Teac arrived safe & sound. Shipping & packing were A+.
Good deal from a good trader!

I bought an Asus MB from him.

Blain was the Buyer on July 12, 2002 AnandTech

Shooters was great to break up a combo package he had for sale and sell me the MB out of it.
He shipped it promptly and well packed.
Great deal with Great trader!

I bought a CD-ROM drive from Mike.

Blain was the Buyer on September 8, 2002 AnandTech

Great price on a good drive.
Good communication and fast shipping.
Great deal with a Great trader!
:)

Daniel sent me a CircuitWriter pen for FREE!!

Blain was the Buyer on July 20, 2002 AnandTech

I asked about buying a conductive pen that he had. He had used it some, but mailed it to me FREE!
He would not even take any $$ for shipping costs.
dew042 IS A TOP NOTCH TRADER IN MY BOOK!!
He should be in yours too :)

I bought some software from David.

Blain was the Buyer on September 7, 2004 Other/Unknown

Grade A Trader!
He's easy to deal with,
Keeps in communication,
Follows through with his end of any deal!

BUY FROM HIM! :)

I bought some more CDs from him.

Blain was the Buyer on August 20, 2003 AnandTech

I'm a happy repeat customer.
Everything went fine. He also tossed in a bonus CD!
:)