Another Decorator Challenger

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Larry
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Another Decorator Challenger

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http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Fidelity-Dec ... 2cc48c5505
Someone here saw last week's Decorator go for some ridiculous price
and saw dollar signs. Personally, I can't see why anyone would even
consider bidding more than $50 on one of these things. It's just a
tacky old table with a feeble handheld chess computer embedded into
it. Basically a manual chess set.
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Larry

Obviously I know Australia is 'down under' but I never realised that you look at all your photos upside down!

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photo dosent show the legs
if there are no legs this could be the even rarer Grandmaster Voice
but I doubt it

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Re: Another Decorator Challenger

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Larry wrote:http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Fidelity-Dec ... 2cc48c5505
Someone here saw last week's Decorator go for some ridiculous price
and saw dollar signs. Personally, I can't see why anyone would even
consider bidding more than $50 on one of these things. It's just a
tacky old table with a feeble handheld chess computer embedded into
it. Basically a manual chess set.
L
see what you are not factoring in Larry is the "serving tray" feature
one of the only chess computers ever released for sale that has this feature
some of the best breakfasts I ever had in bed were served to me by my wife on this computer

of course I had to cook the breakfast myself but she did

Serve It To Me Regards
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Post by Larry »

Chessmaster Ireland wrote:Larry

Obviously I know Australia is 'down under' but I never realised that you look at all your photos upside down!


Bryan
I'm currently writing a program that inverts all my posts, so you will have
to hold your laptop upside down to read them.
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Re: Another Decorator Challenger

Post by Fernando »

Steve B wrote:
Larry wrote:http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Fidelity-Dec ... 2cc48c5505
Someone here saw last week's Decorator go for some ridiculous price
and saw dollar signs. Personally, I can't see why anyone would even
consider bidding more than $50 on one of these things. It's just a
tacky old table with a feeble handheld chess computer embedded into
it. Basically a manual chess set.
L
see what you are not factoring in Larry is the "serving tray" feature
one of the only chess computers ever released for sale that has this feature
some of the best breakfasts I ever had in bed were served to me by my wife on this computer




of course I had to cook the breakfast myself but she did

Serve It To Me Regards
Steve

Your wife serving you a breakfast in bed?
probably you were dreaming, steve.

Wives only serves us for a check regards
Fern
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Post by Larry »

Steve B wrote:photo dosent show the legs
if there are no legs this could be the even rarer Grandmaster Voice
but I doubt it

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Steve
I messaged the seller. It has legs.
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Post by JeffB »

Larry wrote:I messaged the seller. It has legs.
It must have used the legs to run away. The seller cancelled the sale because the item is apparently lost. (Well, "lost or broken", but when has "broken" ever stopped an eBay seller?)
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Post by steffen »

No, the reason for the cancellation was me. I was interested in buying it and he sold it to me, but then it was a bit unclear how he had been able to make run this chess computer without a fitting plug.
I recommended him to add a fitting plug because trying the functionality with a wrong plug could be risky.
I guess he is going to connect a correct plug now before he sells it again.
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