Please help - what would you take this message to mean...

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Offered - Phillips DVD player - NOT RECOGNISING DISCS!!!

I dunno if anyone can take these things apart and fix them. When it works it plays mp3s, cds, copied discs and I think is multi-regional.

That it's broken. Sometimes when there is a fault the dvd player states that it can't read the disc which means it can't [play the disc.

Thank you

I didn't write that email in another language then?!

I'd think that the dvd player is broken and, unless you want a broken dvd player or are skilled in fixing things, stay away!
Having said that, I'm not au fait with these things so ...

Thank you even

Our DVD player just stopped recognising discs so DH chucked it in the bin and bought a new one for £20 from Argos ! In his opinion if they don't recognise discs they're buggered !

Have I mis-understood? Are you advertising this? If so, no offence meant, I just wouldn't be interested in a broken dvd player.

Had to explain to THREE people that they can have it if they want (all 3 telling me that their dvd player has broken), but that it isn't working... they ask how... I explain it isn't recognising discs... so they say "It's broken then"

There are often people asking for random broken bits of machinery for projects, so put it on offer for the weekend until dustbin day

Ah - that makes sense. Not being technically minded that wouldn't occur to me!

But the message is perfectly clear - they are just being a bit thick imho.

I think if you had added something like "might be useful to someone for spare parts maybe ?" it would have been a bit clearer to be honest !

Clear enough to me.

By the way 2 of our DVD players didn't recognise discs - a clean through with a DVD disc cleaner and good as new

Will try and get hold of one of those then!!!

(Although I have almost convinced DH to spend his birthday money on getting a 360 on the basis that it replaces the £20 dvd player too - the only console I liked, and he sold it for the wii...)

why don't you just say "it's broken"? you're implying that it occasionally works by saying "when it works".

it is fecked broken driven the owner round the bend they are now happily off loading a broken item suitable for spares or dextrous crafty able to fix types

Someone was offering a dead tv tonight - decided that that was the better word to use