[Elecraft] Parts swappers -- is this a real "thing"

Sat Oct 30 17:03:07 EDT 2021

I think it was started some years back and folks seem to think they need to
add it to their sales ad.

Personally, if I am looking for a piece of equipment and I see this little
phrase added to the blurb, I ignore it.  My feeling is that if the selling
person is saying he doesn't trust someone, then how can he be trusted?!?
As others have said, it's a copout way of saying the seller doesn't want to
be bothered with returns.

YMMV.

73 de Jim - KE8G

On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 3:17 PM jerry <jerry at tr2.com> wrote:

> This is of real concern to me.  I have an accumulation of ham equipment,
> and
> probably need to start moving some of it out - to make room in my life
> for more ham equipment :).
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> It's not that I need the money... got plenty of that.  I could keep
> buying equipment the rest of my life  and sluff off the selling job to
> my heirs :).  But that would be dumb.  What's the use of having all this
> nice stuff in the closet?
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>    At the moment there's a pair of K2's - one 100W and one 10W.  An
> IC706MKII with very low hours.  A Kenwood TS590S.  A 30L-1.  A
> collection of Sideband Engineers SB34 transceivers.  A QRP-labs QCX+ &
> matching 50W amp.  A small collection of ARC-5 transmitters & receivers.
>   A Ubitx transceiver.  A couple of old sweep tube linears.  3 or 4 (
> think there's 4, but haven't seen the fourth one in a while ) TV7D/U
> tube testers - my goodness, has anybody seen what those things are going
> for on Ebay?  Also, I expect my Alpha 78 to become surplus some time
> next year.
>
>    In the past, there was a ham radio swap meet in Silicon Valley.
> That's gone for the moment due to COVID.  Even the venue ( Fry's
> Electroncs ) is gone.  I've been going to this thing since the early
> 70's.  I would mostly buy, but also sold.  I've been there as early as
> 4:30 in the morning... but I have never been first.
> Fond memories... There was that Swan 500 that I scored for $100 at 6:00
> in the morning.
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> In the 80's, I was getting fairly prosperous, and I started buying all
> the stuff I had drooled over as a starving student in the 70's.  A Drake
> TR4...   A Collins R390A ( $100 ).  A Galaxy 5 in brand new condition
> with the packing tape still on the tubes...
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> Mostly, I sold it back a few months later at the same swap meet.
> Storage space was always an issue.  I used to joke that the most
> valuable thing that traded places at the swap was not the stuff... or
> the money.. but rather Silicon Valley real estate; storage space in
> people's attics and garages.  I developed an rule:  I would buy nothing
> that would not fit in a backpack.
>
> The flea market was more than a sales venue - it was a community.  I
> would see familiar
> people there.  There was the soldering iron guy... the cables &
> connectors family that came up from LA;  Rik the cheap Chinese tools guy
> who also had supermagnets.  Mark the
> CTO of Netgear, who would come up in his old VW microbus and sell
> detritus from his lab.
> He was an excellent source of wall warts.
>
>    At the flea market, what you see is what you get.  Does it work?  Show
> me.  You could
> get a feel for the guy behind the table, person to person.
>
>    Anyway... selling on line to people far away - seems like a lot of
> work.  Have to pack stuff up, haul it off to the shipping store, freak
> out at how much they charge, worry about parts swappers.... Maybe I'll
> just wait till the swap meet starts up again in 2022.
>
>                    - Jerry KF6VB
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> On 2021-10-29 22:45, Larry Shapiro wrote:
> > When I first started listing items on QRZ, I was told by a handful of
> > guys to always put this in my listings.
> > I asked why,and was told that it happens too frequently.
> > I started to add the parts swappers line to my listings.
> > I have not had any issues,other than one buyer who
> > was a real pain.
> > After reading this this thread,I have decided not to do this anymore.
> > In my 33 years as a Ham,I have had 99% great experiences with other
> > Hams.
> > Thanks,
> > Larry k6ro
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From: Anthony Wanschura
> > Sent: Friday, October 29, 2021 6:30 AM
> > To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> > Subject: [Elecraft] Parts swappers -- is this a real "thing"
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've seen a few K3 For Sale ads that mention "parts swappers". Has this
> > really been an issue?
> >
> > It makes me hesitate to put my K3 up for sale.
> >
> > 73,
> > Tony   KM0O
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