You didn’t read what I said. I said IF IT BECAME illegal. I didn’t say it was. I simply was pointing out a what-if situation. Pay attention to the word “if” next time.
Yeah there is a grey area in what I did, but there is no rule you can’t request an RMA for something you don’t have so you can sell it at an 800% profit on eBay.
Made good money selling those model 5000 receivers with HDTV adaptor in the early days.
I even hooked up with a guy selling Hipix cards and computers with removable hard drives. Had a nice little HDTV movie collection before we had blue rays and HD/DVR’s