[Boatanchors] Now I've heard it all

[Howard Ritter]

On Apr 22, 2012, at 5:43 PM, DAve Mayfield wrote:

> Thought you all might be in for a good laugh.
> 
> A few weeks back, I sold a guy a FT101, it was advertised as not 
> working, told him that it did receive ok but there was no output in 
> transmit. So he bought it.  Today I get an e-mail from him complaining 
> to me that he sent it to Yaesu for repairs, and they told him that it 
> would cost $389.00.
> 
> I responded to him, telling him that he has no business buying 30 year 
> old radios that do not work, if he is not able to work on it himself, 
> further I told him he needs to  just buy new radios if he is not able to 
> work on them. Also I mentioned that $389.00 for the factory to repair 
> the radio is not all that much.
> 
> Am I wrong? just wanted others thoughts.
> 
> -- 
>     73 Dave W9WRL
> http://www.w9wrl.com/w9wrl
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