[GreenKeys] OT but only slightly

[Dave Horsfall]

On Sat, 22 Nov 2014, tony.podrasky wrote:

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

Fair enough, as long as sellers say so up front.

There was one bloke who was selling buck-boost converters for rigs like 
the Yaesu FT-100[D] (it's *very* fussy about seeing 13.8V) and after 
tracking down his email address he revealed that he refused to ship 
overseas; I was prepared to pay whatever it took, but nope.

I've since found a number of places that offer a USA shipping address and 
will forward it on (for a fee, of course); dunno how reliable they are.

[...]

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

Hadn't heard of that practice; that's evil.

> 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.

So, a seller in (list your favourite country here) is going to have a USA 
callsign?  Right...

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