[Hallicrafters] Good Ebay experience

[Bob Young]

I've only had one bad ebay shipping experience, it was approx 6 or 7 years ago. 
I bought a nice looking HRO-60 from someone down south on ebay. When it arrived it 
had been put in a flimsy box with one layer of cardboard with no packing material 
at all.Needless to say the front panel was all smashed to pieces. It had come from 
one of those UPS packing stores, I called them and spoke to an employee who 
remembered thewoman who shipped it, he has advised her that it would not arrive in one 
piece as shipped but she was determined to ship it as cheaply as possible.I notified 
paypal who did an investigation, they determined she was at fault and refunded me my 
money. When I called the store back and told the guy about the investigation he clammed 
right up. 
Actually I just remembered another one, I bought a nice HW-101 with power
supply and speaker with power supply in the speaker. During shipping the power supply 
ripped loose and dented the speaker enclosure, also somehow one of the 6146A's got
broken during shipping. The damage wasn't too bad however, I threw a pair of 6293's 
in it and it worked like a champ and still does,

Bob
KB1OKL


I haven't had a "bad" eBay experience yet, but have endured a couple of near misses.  
 
Several years ago I bought a nice SX-28 from someone "up north," and thank goodness I had the presence of mind to ask him how he planned to pack it.  Well, it was evident that he was totally clueless.  I told him to wait to ship it, that I'd try to find a suitable method.  As it happened, I had a large carton with blown-foam inserts left over from shipping a large and heavy communications service monitor at work.  I thought it'd be about right for an SX-28, which was confirmed by measurements.  I also had a bunch of pink-foam 2x4s from a shipping crate containing a 6-foot rack of microwave gear.  I put a bunch of this into the carton all around and under the opening for the equipment, drew the guy a diagram of how to pack it, and sent it to him, which cost about $14 via Parcel Post.  That was money well spent.  He packed the radio according to my instructions but bitched about it in an e-mail, claiming it took him about 1-1/2 hours to do the
 job.  But, when I got the radio, it was perfect.  In fact, it could probably have taken a fifteen-foot (or more) dead-fall drop, and bounced, without harming the radio or busting the box.
 
I also breathed a huge sigh of relief when an RME-69 arrived in a box that was literally falling apart.  The radio was single-boxed, packed only in peanuts, and indeed the cabinet was crammed full of peanuts.  They had "bled" all over the inside of the UPS truck.  The radio, however, was uninjured.  I don't know how it survived, but it did.
 
On the other hand, another receiver (National) was packed so well that it probably exceeded US Mil packing guidelines.  This one was a cream-puff, and was perfect when it arrived.  Best packing job I ever saw.  Despite talking with the seller before shipment and being assured there'd be no problems, I'd been worried about it, but there was no need to have been.
 
73
 
Mike
W4DSE