[AMRadio] trades, sales, auctions, even wanted

[L L bahr]

NOT ME !!!!  I'll go to ebay and find my own deals.  I don't need someone telling me to go there from a list.  I also don't need to read twice per week those ham dealers in used equipment to cheap to use their own web site for sales.  One guy is sending out two lists per week and I get the same ads 12 times twice per week!  No thank you.  I don't mind an individual ham advertising his own personal gear on an infrequent time frame. You open the door and some jerk will abuse the site.  Why in the world do we need someone telling us what is on e-bay?  If you are interested, you will go there on your own.  Bottom line infrequent sales by owners of their own excess equipment fine.  But not sellers selling equipment as a business.  I'll also find my own E-bay deals, thank you. 

Lee, w0vt 

----- Original Message -----
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Jim Larsen <jimlarsen2002 at alaska.net>wrote:

> I am always perplexed by the "don't let us know of your eBay auction on
> this list."   It makes no sense to me to exclude auctions when for some
> people the auction is the only way they feel safe to sell because of
> protections in place on eBay.
>
> I would like to see trades, sales, auctions, even wanteds on the list.
>
> I figure I had better speak up so that everyone doesn't just "get on the
> band-wagon" and say auctions are terrible.  In my opinion, they are a
> fact of life that is not going away.  Why deprive the folks on this list
> from knowing about a great item or offering based on what can be
> perceived as an outmoded way of viewing auctions?
>
> Good points Jim.  I'll let the rest decide on this, however I do see your
point, clearly.

I have used eBay, and still do from time to time.  I guess we feel "close
knit" here and trust one another, and hope that an item such as that would
be offered to the members before it's brought to the public and some
collector that might want it who will never even use it.  I don't know...
 I'll let others speak on this for now and see what happens.

Thanks & 73
Brian / w5ami