[GreenKeys] OT but only slightly

[tony.podrasky]

Hello Dave & al;

My eBay listings state "CONUS only (CONtinental United States).

I did have a guy in New Zealand ask if I would ship to N.Z.
I replied OK - if he wants to pick up the tab - and I'll take
a picture of the box at the U.S. Post Office - what happens
after that is not my problem.

He agreed. It cost about $40.oo to ship it to him, and in
about 2 weeks he had it and was delighted.

Note: eBayers have been warned about scam-buyers in Russia
and places that have names that are difficult to pronounced,
let alone spell.

I sold a Ten-Tec ORION I on eBay. I had it listed for, I think, $2,000.oo.

A few weeks after I sold the unit I got an e-mail from a ham in
Denmark. He said that someone in (everyone's FAVORITE communist country)
had MY LISTING posted on the Asia eBay - and gave me the link.
Sure enough, it was my listing - write-up and pictures. They didn't
even delete or change my callsign.

I contacted eBay and told them what was going on. I provided A LOT of
documentation proving I was the REAL SELLER.

Typical of ebay [NOTE: YMMV], they said: "there was NO WAY to tell which
one (me or the other guy) was lying - so they couldn't do anything about
the listing.

That attitude cranked me off so much that I SPAMMED them with about 50
pictures of my radio shack, the original bill of sale with the serial
number, and picture of me on my patio, holding a big sign with my
call letters on it, where the pictures were taken for the eBay ad.

UE,
K2EAA - TONY
NNNN
ZCZC

On 11/22/2014 12:23 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Nov 2014, Robert Jarratt wrote:
>
>> It will help to say where the item is located as shipping can often be a
>> problem.
>
> Especially here down-under in Australia, when USA sellers say "will ship
> anywhere" but it doesn't include outside their own borders.
>

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