[GreenKeys] RE: what is a polar relay?

[bonamod at bellsouth.net]

The cost may well be 70.00 to ship to the US, the seller is located in Bohemia, Czech Republic


Item weighs 5lbs, from the US to Bohemia, Czech Republic it is about 40.00 to ship USPS, maybe more expensive from there end.

Also the seller could have made a mistake in the listing, I run accross this all the time and a quick email resolves this.  




-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "amourdutigre" <amourdutigre at kc.rr.com>
>
Thank you all again for the help with this. I had no idea that the landlines 
used polar signaling. I simply thought that they blasted a make/break signal 
with lots of voltage to compensate for the high resistance steel wires. Now it 
> seems to make sense to me.
> 
As far as the relay on e-bay, I suspect that the seller is an antique dealer, 
and often antique dealers have very little idea what an object is worth. They 
either charge way too much for the item, or sometimes, the item is very 
valuable, and they will sell it for far less than what it is worth. I guess that 
anything is worth only what somene will pay for it though. As for me, I will not 
pay $140 for that relay, with a nice $70 on top of that for shipping. (This is 
one of my real complaints about e-pay...there are those out there that use the 
shipping charge to up their price in a semi-stealth way. I once bought a Heath 
SB-301 and the seller only charged me 7 dollars to ship. This guy wants 70 to 
> ship a relay that I would dare say weighs a whole lot less than the '301 does.)
> 
> Thank you a again for the information!
> 
> Best and 73
> 
> Joe KB0TXC