[Hallicrafters] Good Ebay experience

[Paul Beckwith]

Congrats, Jim!  For the most part, I've been OK with eBay 
transactions.  The one problem I had was when they stated "It lights 
up when turned on", as well.  It was a commercial Frequency 
Synthesizer.  When I received the unit, it was as stated, as the 
front panel LED's came on, but that was it.  Opened it up and found 
an entire section of the power supply was missing!

73's de Paul K2LMQ   Kingman, AZ


At 12:56 PM 8/5/2013, Jim Marshall wrote:
>With all the posts about negative Ebay purchases, I have to include 
>my very positive post. I recently bid an a Hallicrafters SX-115 
>receiver, and luckily won the bid. The pictures looked good, both 
>inside and out, albeit a little dust. Received the radio the other 
>day, and was double boxed with bubble wrap and "Popcorn". What I got 
>is almost beyond belief. It had no scratches, no dents, no 
>corrosion, and still had the serial number tag on the back. After a 
>little cleaning the dust off the chassis, the radio looks like it 
>had just come off the Halli assembly line. In fact, the rubber two 
>wire power cord was not even cracked or brittle. All the tubes are 
>Hallicrafters tubes. Powers up just fine, but might need some new 
>tubes an perhaps an alignment as sensitivity is down quite a bit. 
>The electrolytics seem good as there is very little ripple from the 
>power supply. and no hum in the audio.
>After the purchase, I kind of had "buyers remorse" as I paid $766 
>for it, but what I received was amazing. The Seller stated that "the 
>lights come on when I plug it in, but don't know how to turn it off, 
>so it is untested." (Not a Ham)
>Long story short, there are some real treasures out there, but a lot 
>of junk too. Out of about 110 purchases I have made on Ebay, I was 
>only burnt once, but not too badly.
>
>Jim Marshall, K6OLY