Following on from news item: There was a Re-boxing prior to another Unboxing....

I was looking on the inside of what I thought was the computer I'd purchased. I was thinking about upgrade paths some more. Isn't it nice to have the machine in front of you just to be able to gently tug the wires to see where they run and dream about what can be achieved with me Precious? I mean my Precision, not me Precious.

If you look at the photograph in the following ebay correspondence you can see that there's a shroud covering memory on the right of the CPU, but there's one missing shroud on the left. By chance, I also had my eye on another computer listed by the seller.

I really should update my website more often, because the following correspondence with the seller was on the 2nd of July:

2 Jul 2026

Hi, im missing a memory air baffle?  Its pictured on the listing.  I noticed theres the same missing baffle on the computer your selling nows listing.
Thanks, Andrew.

09:00

Hello,

Could you send us a picture of the inside of the machine?

Kind Regards,

Megan

09:09

In here ta https://informationindustries.com/latest-computer

10:47

Hello,

Can you please send us a picture of the inside of workstation we sent out to you through eBay. We are not going to entertain viewing web links.

Many Thanks,

Steve

10:53

Oh ok the photo ive got is my website.  An unboxing article of your machine.  The last photo is the one photo your asking for.

11:15

Hi I just need a picture of the inside of the workstation we sent out to you so we can see which baffle is missing and see what we have and can do about it for you. 

Many thanks

Steve

11:21

As i said if you look at your listing for t3610 its the same missing baffle.  I checked a ram stick strange DDR3.  Checked model oh youve shipped the wrong machine.  This is not a 5810 i didnt expect that one

11:58

11:59

It wasn't possible for me to open the computer up at the time of these messages, and the only photographs I had of its inside were now transferred from my mobile phone to the unboxing article on my website.

Reminder to self: I like how my website uses nice, clean URLs (slugs) like "latest-computer." I remember setting this up, but I don't remember how. Always, always document, even if it is only a hobbyist thing I'm doing!

What you may notice in the correspondence is how responsive the seller was, although one reply wasn't helpful. I responded, when Steve refused to look at the Internet, with a screenshot of my website taken on my mobile phone.

I parcelled up the computer that night and it was collected the next day as we had agreed. The seller couldn't coordinate delivery for the next day. But, the correct computer was delivered, as arranged, when I was next at home. That timely delivery meant that I didn't mind waiting a bit longer for the delivery, or even being messaged a tracking number that needed to be fixed by the seller. Overall, a simple process, a few messages to correctly organise collection and delivery.

Here's some more photographs, including memory temporarily pulled from the Dell Precision T3610 (when I assumed it was the T5810). They may be useful to someone, or myself, one day:

This article is part of the Dell Precision Tower 5810 project. You can view the rest of the project's narrative here.