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Are you familiar with the story of The Grouchy Ladybug? It is a sweet book by Eric Carle about a ladybug with a chip on his tiny shoulder that goes looking for a fight. Throughout the day he challenges progressively larger animals throughout the day saying, “Hey, you – want to fight?” but nobody backs [...]

[NOTE: you might want to read parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 before you read this. It explains that John Harlan 'returned' a computer monitor but the FedEx box actually contained a gallon jug of water.] When last we met, things looked bleak for our heroes. John Harlan (johnslcdrepair, johnhis11_computers, xhd3000repairman4356, computerguru43560 and lcdrepairman8733, xhd3000repairman, lcdrepairworld [...]

Note: You might want to read part 1, part 2 and part 3 first. Okay, are you ready for this? So, lots of time went by and I had kind of forgotten about the whole monitor situation. Then one evening we came home and there was a sticker on the door from FedEx saying that [...]

Note: You might want to read part 1 and part 2 first. I was tracking the monitor and the accessories packages as they traveled through the UPS systems, so I knew when the packages arrived. I could also have told because John Harlan (johnslcdrepair, johnhis11_computers, xhd3000repairman43560 and computerguru43560 on eBay)  immediately opened a dispute with PayPal: [...]

Okay,  Gateway wasn’t going to be any help so I turned to the Interwebs. As you might recall from the start of this saga, I was not the only person who had the flickering monitor problem. Real Geeks had troubleshooted (troubleshot?) the problem to a specific chip on a specific board in the monitor. Apparently [...]

(Lauren here: We’ve had a bad run-in on ebay in the past month, and while everything has turned out mostly alright, we thought it might be a good idea to warn people about John Harlan of Sylvania, Ohio, or as I like to call him: The Bad Man. Here’s Lloyd with Part 1.) You might [...]