[AMRadio] River Radio and getting fired up.

[Jim Isbell]

Not sure what you are asking, but maybe you missed the Ad by River Radio 
where they advertised that, in the event of the death of a Ham, they 
would inventory the equipment and do an appraisal on it so that the 
widow would not get ripped off by the "vultures."  One guy posted that 
he thought River Radio was a "vulture" and going to rip off the widow. 
 I posted in reply that while I thought the ad might be tasteless and 
not appropriate on the list, it was certainly a service that some might 
want, even ahead of their death.  I stated that I felt they were more 
likely to have the "vultures" of the local ham community do in the widow 
than a legitimate business.

As to the second part of the message, I posted the URL of an ad on E-Bay 
where a guy is selling copies of manuals (in this case the B&K 747 tube 
tester) that he apparently downloads from the BAMA site where they are 
available for FREE to anyone who wants them.  I find this objectionable 
because the people who post manuals there and the operators of that site 
do it as a FREE public service to Hams and others.  The first page of 
the manuals explains the free service and I will just about bet that 
this guy removes that page so as to keep the buyer innocent.

David Knepper wrote:

>Jim, can you tell me what this is all about.  That is the scope of your
>remarks.  Just curious.
>
>Take care.
>
>Dave, W3ST
>Secretary to the Collins Radio Association
>Publisher of the Collins Journal
>www.collinsra.com
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Jim Isbell <millenniumfalcon at cableone.net>
>To: <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 9:19 PM
>Subject: [AMRadio] River Radio and getting fired up.
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>>I really dont think River Radio was that bad except that it was bad
>>taste to post it on this list.
>>
>>BUT.....if you really want to get fired up, why not go after the
>>scuzballs that are going to the BAMA site, downloading manuals for free
>>and selling them on E-Bay?
>>
>>Take a look at this one.
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>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2564464425&category=25409
>&rd=1
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>>This is the download from BAMA with the second page, where it says this
>>is provided FREE, removed so the buyer doesn't know he has been screwed.
>> The cost of reproducing this manual is under $1.50 (if you use a pay
>>per page Xerox!!), the download was free, and it is selling for $4.50
>>plus postage.  So the buyer is paying about $8 for a manual he could
>>have downloaded and printed at home for under $1.
>>
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