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Malkavian · 04-02-2009, 06:18 PM

Hey all,
I had won an eBay auction about ten days ago for an iLiad second edition, to be followed by an email from the seller stating due to a stock issue they wouldn't be arriving for a week (which would have been this past thursday)

Today I get a follow up stating that due to a manufacturing change the new iLiad 2e's are not "compliant" in the US (I assume referring to the wireless device) and there will be further delay. The seller offered to ship a Book Edition today if I wanted.

At this point I am, frankly, pissed off, mostly for the seller offering an item which was not in stock. This also seems rather shady to a certain point, because accepting a different item than I bid on effectively nullifies any help eBay or paypal will offer should I have any problems with this seller.

Which is why I wanted to check here and see if anyone else knows of these manufacturing difficulties. Any news? I don't see anything on the iRex homepage, although that seems to be updated scarcely at best.

04-02-2009, 06:18 PM	#1
Malkavian Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: iLiad BE	Iliad manufacturing issues...anyone else hear about this? Hey all, I had won an eBay auction about ten days ago for an iLiad second edition, to be followed by an email from the seller stating due to a stock issue they wouldn't be arriving for a week (which would have been this past thursday) Today I get a follow up stating that due to a manufacturing change the new iLiad 2e's are not "compliant" in the US (I assume referring to the wireless device) and there will be further delay. The seller offered to ship a Book Edition today if I wanted. At this point I am, frankly, pissed off, mostly for the seller offering an item which was not in stock. This also seems rather shady to a certain point, because accepting a different item than I bid on effectively nullifies any help eBay or paypal will offer should I have any problems with this seller. Which is why I wanted to check here and see if anyone else knows of these manufacturing difficulties. Any news? I don't see anything on the iRex homepage, although that seems to be updated scarcely at best.