[ARC5] Ebay Transactions

[Fuqua, Bill L]

  Well, I resolved that problem when buying tubes.
I built a portable transmitting tube tester that will test tubes up
to 1.5kW. It is in a Hickok tester case and powered by a 
12 volt battery. 
   They will state that the tubes are perfect and tested and that is when
I ask if I can  test them with my tester. Usually they say yes thinking it
is an ordinary tester and right in the middle is a socket for 4-125A to 4-1000A tubs
or 3-500z or 3-1000z tubes. I also have adapters that plug in to test
ceramic tubes. 
   They get a bit nervous at that point.
73
Bill wa4lav
 
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From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net [arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net] on behalf of D C _Mac_ Macdonald [k2gkk at hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 9:40 AM
To: jfor at quikus.com; WB5WSV  Wayne Eleazer
Cc: ARC-5 Mail List
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Ebay Transactions

You can get stung on face-to-face dealings at hamfests, too!  Earlier this month, I bought a 2m rig that was claimed to have an intermittent power on switch.  I figured, what the heck, and handed over the money.  When I got home and checked things out, it became obvious that unfused, reverse polarity voltage had been applied and much of the "Magic Smoke" had escaped!

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> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 06:13:22 -0800
> From: jfor at quikus.com
> To: releazer at earthlink.net
> CC: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Ebay Transactions
>
> > I have had a number of bad ebay transactions, quite a few that were good,
> > and a number that were not what I expected.
> >
> > But one of the most unsatisfactory was the 2nd time I tried to sell
> > something.  It was a military surplus FM Low Pass 6M filter that I wanted
> > to sell for some reason.  And when it sold the buyer did not contact me
> > or respond to my attempts to contact him.
>
> Did you send the buyer an invoice? I generally wait for one for a few days
> after a sale, and do nothing until it shows up.
>
>
> > A few weeks later I filed a Unpaid
> > claim with ebay and then immediately received an virus infected e-mail
> > purporting to come from "W2FU."
>
> Was this before the eBay email system was implemented? I doubt any malware
> can get through that.
>
> > At that time I did not know how to trace e-mails or else I would have
> > reported it to the sender's ISP.  But it is odd to think that a buyer who
> > clearly was an amateur radio operator would do something like that.
>
> Are you sure the buyer sent it intentionally. Often headers are forged.
>
> -John
>
> ===============
>
> > Buying something from a fellow ham that is not as he advertised it is not
> > that uncommon.  Having one send you a computer virus for something he
> > apparently want to buy is something else again.
> >
> > Wayne

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