[ICOM] Selling via QRZ.COM

[paul glassman]

jan, 
  its been a while since we have chatted, however always enjoy tour comments! i was banned from qrz for two years for getting into an argument with the owner, then at the end of two years he told me i was only banned for two weeks! wow....  stupid people!
                        73  paul w8jn

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--- On Sun, 3/15/09, Jan Robbins <swanman at cfu.net> wrote:

> From: Jan Robbins <swanman at cfu.net>
> Subject: [ICOM] Selling via QRZ.COM
> To: "ICOM Reflector" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009, 8:46 PM
> Hi All,
> Don't know whether you've checked the
> "requirements" for buying and 
> selling at QRZ.COM classifieds recently, but we seem to
> have a club of  
> children, half-wits or anal-compulsives running the
> classifieds site. 
> 
> Note that once you have listed an item, you can do NOTHING
> to change the 
> listing.  NOTHING.  No editing, but also YOU CAN'T EVEN
> DELETE A SOLD 
> ITEM.  I have been getting literally dozens of inquiries
> for items sold 
> some time ago and can do nothing for the inquirers or  me. 
> 
> I even got a PHONE CALL from one of these remarkably wise
> folks 
> "advising" me about what I should and
> shouldn't say in my listing (one 
> example: I shouldn't say I'm at  swanman AT cfu DOT
> net because "that's 
> how those nasty people harvest email addresses"). 
> This person, so far 
> as I ca tell, was licensed about 30 years after me, and has
> no record of 
> buying and selling ham equipment.  What Nonsense.
> 
> Another example: They list some fascinating little (and I
> do mean 
> LITTLE) rules.  For example, you can't relist within a
> week of first 
> listing.  Well thank heaven I didn't do that, because
> if you do it 
> they'll leave your call out on the list--hang YOU out
> to dry--but delete 
> your listing, and next to it make the wonderful Miss Grundy
> comment: 
> "/DO NOT RELIST AN ITEM WITHIN 7 DAYS OF ORIGINAL
> LISTING"
> 
> /This is a dying classifieds site, and it's easy to see
> why, but do 
> beware that if you list there you're in for some FUN
> times, as these 
> folks KNOW MUCH BETTER THAN YOU how to do what you need to
> do..
> 
> Enjoy Spring, friends!  Tks for being there! Vy GL es 73,
> Jan N0JR
> 
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