[Hallicrafters] Michael Mclaughlin

[Bob Young]

A few months back he advertised a lot of stuff on one of these reflectors, I 
contacted him and went to down to his (or his girlfriends) house in CT. I 
bought a nice HRO-60 and speaker from him, he wanted 500.00 for it which I 
agreed to. He actually knocked of 50 bucks which floored me as this 
obviously does not happen often and I did not ask for it. (the radio does 
have some backlash which I didn't notice at first)
I'm not saying to buy from him or sticking up for him, just relaying my 
personal experience with him, in person he seemed like a nice guy and did 
right by me.  I had no idea of who he was and was very surprised to see all 
the negative stuff about him several days later on the same reflector, I 
think it was in the boatanchors list. I do remember however both his 
previous ebay accounts and also when he went to private feedback, but did 
not link the two until I read about it on the list. If I had known who he 
was (I remember his feedbacks, haha!) I probably would have steered a wide 
berth around him but I got a nice radio out of it for a fair price,

Bob Young
Millbury, Ma



Message: 4
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:00:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Chris Farley <vacuuminded3 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Hallicrafters] UPDATE: Warning! 217stufforsale is bk
on ebay
	selling ham gear!
To: HallicraftersRadios at yahoogroups.com,
hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
Message-ID: <866580.10080.qm at web38811.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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I found a missing piece of the puzzle. I knew Kelly wasn't
actually the sellers name, but couldn't remember what it was. I
dug back and found out the following:

The sellers name isn't actually Kelly Naccarato, (an
ex-girlfriend whose name he was using), it is Michael
Mclaughlin. Apparently Mike is using his sisters name for his
current account, although I haven't verified this yet.

  Here's a posting on eHam:

http://www.eham.net/classifieds/detail/210773

It has a link to a newspaper article, here:

http://www.nhregister.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=11397764&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=517515&rfi=8

Here, I found another LONG thread from people on eHam:

http://www.eham.net/forums/CompanyReviews/2456

Here's another thread!

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors/browse_thread/thread/3c5d8f98a8eb650f/2781d0b9d4bcf501

Just thought you should know the WHOLE story, now that I found
it! I think my effort shall not be in vein!

If you know ANYBODY that is bidding on any of this sellers
items, PLEASE WARN THEM!!! I have his address, two phone
numbers, and his current ebay email address if anyone needs it
for good reason!
73
Chris