[Hallicrafters] Florida rip-offs

[Duane B. Fischer, W8DBF]

Charlie, 	
	
No, this is Ken Simpson, W8EK, of Ocala, Florida. He has not been arrested and
is in no way involved in that other terrible Ham rip off scam. He is advertising
almost daily on the 'forsale-swap' list on the QTH.NET lists, probably others
too.	
	
Why he is permitted to continue posting ads with his reputation, well, it is not
my call. 

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From: Charlie <pincon at erols.com>
To: hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Hallicrafters] Florida rip-offs
Date: Monday, March 07, 2005 8:15 PM

If it's the same guy I'm thinking of, he went by several names:  Eddie Locke
& Fred Wright come to mind, but there was a whole list of them.  Most of the
deals occurred in early 2000.

We had quite a sting operation going  with him advertising quite regularly
on the QRZ.COM site, until some #@$% doo gooder made a bunch of posts on all
the websites about "avoiding the crook".  At that point, he went underground
and we never heard from him again. I sure hope it's the same guy in jail
now.

Have you heard whether there's any chance to recover some money from him?  I
actually had an FBI agent come to my home to get information.  Still have
the file on it.

73' Charlie k3ICH




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
To: "William L Howard" <wlhoward at verizon.net>
Cc: "Hallicrafters list" <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, 07 March 2005 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Radio Relay League


> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 01:23:23 -0500, William L Howard
> <wlhoward at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > Need to remember the saga of the man now in jail in Florida for this
> > sort of scam.  He would sell you some batch of radio gear, have his
> > brother in law, the long haul trucker deliver and you never saw your
> > money or the radios or the brother in law again. They finally caught
> > him, but those of us who remember him would be very leeery of such a
> > deal.
>
> I remember him, Bill. He's been in the clink for 2-3 years now at
> least, hasn't he? His name is on the tip of my tongue. I recall it
> took quite a while to get them to do anything about him, but when they
> did, they made sure he got the point. Of course, this is another
> advantage of the 'eyeball-to-eyeball' approach - pay when you pick up
> and save getting ripped off.
>
> BTW, we haven't spoken since the visit, but both my YL tour guide and
> I enjoyed your museum emmensely. Never saw so many Hallicrafters
> Village and field radios in one place before! I've sent your info to a
> couple of other interested parties since, hope they get to stop by and
> take a look .Also to a guy who wanted to discuss the coastwatchers
> radio with you.
>
>
> 73, Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ
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