[ARC5] BC-375 tubes

[Fuqua, Bill L]

  Oddly enough, with the hundreds of transactions I have done only 2 that I can recall have gone sour.
The first was the first time I had something put on ebay many years ago when it was young. They had not
sorted out all the bugs yet and feedback was only one way and did not allow a response from seller. 
  I had a HQ-215, first sold on ebay. The bids got up to $1300 and one guy had a Collins Museum and he really 
wanted it but lost out to another guy.
  The other guy's check bounced, no pay pal then, and someone contacted the next highest bidder and
sold him one before I got it relisted. Then you could follow a persons activity. I got sniped. 
   A lady purchased it for her husband who wanted one for some time for $800. However, I had gone to
Dayton thinking I had $500 more in the bank and over spent in the flea market before I discovered the 
check had bounced. 
  The HQ-215 had the same conversion scheme as the 75S series receivers and also had collins filters in it 
as well. That is why the Collins Museum guy was interested in it. You could also use you Collins band crystals
in it as well.
   Those days in some cases I sent cash and still got exactly what I had won. 
  73
Bill wa4lav
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From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net [arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net] on behalf of Roy Morgan [k1lky68 at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 6:48 PM
To: ARC-5 List
Subject: Re: [ARC5] BC-375 tubes

On Nov 21, 2013, at 9:39 AM, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fuqua, Bill L" <wlfuqu00 at uky.edu>
> .
>> I sold some a few years ago that were in good condition and the ebay buyer claimed that
>> they both had open filaments. Either he was trying to pull something over on me or
>> the filaments were broken in shipping. I shipped a couple more, last ones, and that was
>> the end of it.
>
> I've had one person some years ago try to pull that.
> I told him (as I had said in the listing) that I would gladly "make it right."
> All he had to do was ship them back to me for inspection.
> Never heard from him again.

Maybe those tubes experienced a miraculous self-repair!

Another trick:

I heard from a fellow who dealt in WE 300B’s (NOS and tested used ones) that he would sign each one he sold, on the glass.  Then, if anyone tried a switch as part of a return for refund, he’d know if it was the one he’d sent (and tested thoroughly before shipping).  The honest buyer could remove the signature with the right solvent.  The scoundrel would likely not send a tube back.

Roy

Roy Morgan
RoyMorgan at alum.mit.edu
K1LKY Since 1958

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