[ICOM] Selling via QRZ.COM

[Jan Robbins]

Great to hear from you, Paul.  the QRZ stories just go on and on.

Hope all is well your end!!  73 Jan

paul glassman wrote:
> 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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> Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax 
> si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
>
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> --- On Sun, 3/15/09, Jan Robbins <swanman at cfu.net> wrote:
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>> 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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