Several people here, myself included recommended that he not to mess with the board and send it back for a refund. He did and now he is getting hammered for it.

I don't think he's getting hammered for asking for a refund. He's getting hammered because the seller refunded his money, no questions asked, and yet he's STILL bad-mouthing him (intimating that he knew the board was bad and sold it to him anyway). Bad form. As was mentioned earlier, he's not helping his cause, and I'm sure many will think twice before doing business with @sfernandes (but will gladly do business with the seller).
 
I don't think he's getting hammered for asking for a refund. He's getting hammered because the seller refunded his money, no questions asked, and yet he's STILL bad-mouthing him (intimating that he knew the board was bad and sold it to him anyway). Bad form. As was mentioned earlier, he's not helping his cause, and I'm sure many will think twice before doing business with @sfernandes (but will gladly do business with the seller).

Yeah, this is where it is going. Large part due to insisting on the "don't buy it, it must have something wrong!" part.

sfernades really wanted the PCB. We all get it. This PCB likely has the most demand in relation to its supply of just about any PCB around. And it is crazy expensive now (I thought it was crazy expensive at $350).

It is time to move on.

If for no other reason than, nothing more can be done here.
 
Yeah, $700 is a lot to spend and have something arrive not working as described. As I noted this is the downside of buying/selling through ebay. We all know the routine when we sell something or buy something here and it doesn't work, "try reseating x", "clean the edge connector".

Several people here, myself included recommended that he not to mess with the board and send it back for a refund. He did and now he is getting hammered for it.

I have no doubt that the op had trouble and that it worked ok for the seller. I think we have all been there before. Shitty situation for both, made worse by the pile on after the fact.

He is mostly getting hammered for his comments after he got a refund. The issue isn't that he got a refund at all. It is his attitude that still thinks the seller was trying to pull a fast one on him. Seems like you didn't read his posts.
 
He is mostly getting hammered for his comments after he got a refund. The issue isn't that he got a refund at all. It is his attitude that still thinks the seller was trying to pull a fast one on him. Seems like you didn't read his posts.

I did, I also know the full context and that others pointed him to this thread in a way that kind of blamed him for the PCB not working and in turn he got defensive. The pile on didn't help.

The guy was already frustrated over the PCB, then others are giving him grief about not doing enough to test after he was told not to by others on here etc, etc, etc. People say stupid shit when their feels get in the way and feel the need to defend themselves.

I've seen it happen here quite a bit since I have been back. It turns into a feeding frenzy and in trying to defend oneself folks just dig their hole deeper instead of walking away.

He walked away, everyone else should to.
 
My assessment: buyer has a flakey power supply or bad harness terminals so his boards appear flakey because his power isn't clean. Before I returned the board, I'd throw a switcher in parallel on the 5VDC and torque the tar out of the connector after a good cleaning and then see if the board isn't bulletproof.

This happens a lot with part swapping instead of effective trouble-shooting.
 
Now that my first controversial thread has died down I figure it would only make sense to revive it with this picture.
 

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