Dr Y

here's Jims other thread: http://www.t-shirtforums.com/vinyl-cutters-plotters-transfers/t40985.html interesting that Jim got his money back

well, this is all very interesting to me... I've just joined this forum but Im afraid not for the right reasons... read on: our friend Dr X Jim from Liverpool, sold me this cutter via ebay just over a week ago; I paid good money for it, and collected it from Jim at his home in Liverpool. He plugged the cutter in and demonstrated the off-line test square using paper and the pen. He did not plug it into the PC and show it cutting any vinyl, but me being totally new to this scene, I accepted the cutter as working fine. I was given a couple of cables and told that the drivers were available online, along with signblazer on a free trial to cut from. Jim also mentioned something about getting the settings right. Off I went with the cutter. 1st problem: I wasn't given the right cables, so couldn't plug it into the PC... told Jim but he never offered to send the right one on to me. 2nd problem: no signblazer software appears to be available anymore 3rd problem: I've bought this cutter which appears to be a rip off chinese machine which people cant seem to get working. 4th problem: after getting a 9 pin adapter for the 25 pin cable, still nothing is picked up in device manager so no connection being made. I have communicated with Jim through ebay over this, and now asked for my money back, as it appears that the cutter he sold me as working, does not work. (BTW my pc runs XP). Jim says it does work, I showed ou the test square. This does not prove that the cutter works. I've now been told that I need to either buy the USB mboard convertion or try running it on an old PC with an older OS... and no offer of a refund. I am getting the feling I've been ripped off after reading this thread, and Jims other thread over on the Tee shirt forum. Neither threads reach a satisfactory conclusion that Jim got it working, although he claims he did, oh, and I must be reading some other posts, not his.. if anyone can help, I'd be grateful, but it isnt looking great.