[Hallicrafters] Re FPM-200 Offered For Sale

[Gary Harmon]

Personally I've never had a problem with eBay after several hundred purchases.
Two or three purchases have been questionable due to mis-information and
mis-advertising by the sellers, even after suitable questions.  One fellow even
said he had to take off work early to come home and give me an accurate cosmetic
description of a radio.  Besides the fact that it was worse then described, it
also had a c-clamp bouncing around inside the cabinet.  Form a positive
perspective I have bough things off eBay that I would have never had a chance to
find elsewhere.  Sometime you pay more but that the buyer's fault, not the
seller or eBay's.  I've also sold things for decent prices that enables me to
pursue the collection here.  Evil empire?  Naw, just smart business.  Instead of
sitting on your hands at a regular auction, just don't let your fingers do the
walking.  Good Saturday morning all.  73, gary

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Gary H. Harmon, Jr.
K5JWK
6302 Robin Forest
San Antonio, TX 78239
(210) 657-1549 <Home>
(210) 884-6926 <Sprint>
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Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 7:57 PM
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Subject: Fw: [Hallicrafters] Re FPM-200 Offered For Sale


Randy is so correct.

	Last year I sold three pieces of equipment. Only one of the buyers paid me!
After five months, a second one came through. The third one never did.

Now the evil place being run by computers, not people, charged me for the sale
of the third item, which never sold. I spent six months trying to resolve this
with the evil place. The result? Send us the money, and then we will issue you a
credit! I said no way was I going to send them money for a transaction that did
not happen. They suspended my account.

I happened to have an internal contact there, so finally i contacted him and
asked him to kick the issue to a person higher up that could resolve this. He
did. It was settled by phone in five minutes. But you can not talk to them by
phone, just by e-mail.

I was eventually reinstated and the evil place even gave me a credit as an
apology. So, sellers beware! How do you want the shaft; phillips, regular or hex
head? (grin)

DBF


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From: Radio Randy <rjones at theofficenet.com>
To: wa0kds at arrl.net; Duane Fischer, W8DBF <dfischer at usol.com>
Cc: hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Re FPM-200 Offered For Sale
Date: Friday, June 28, 2002 8:43 PM


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronald Oberloh" <wa0kds at yahoo.com>
To: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
Cc: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Re FPM-200 Offered For Sale


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>At least the person selling this prized radio is not going
> to be taken advantaged of.
>
> Ron
>

You assume, of course, that he auctions the radio without incident. There
are deadbeat bidders as well as the guy who, after receiving the radio,
complains that it was not as advertised and wants a full refund (including
shipping). Then, the radio is returned but, looks like it was in a house
fire and run over by a semi (see earlier posts concerning the shipping of
boatanchors).

I think I'll watch.

Radio Randy

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