[ICOM] Selling via QRZ.COM

[KK2DOG in NY]

I posted an ad selling a Heil mic boom and it was deleted by them for some strange reason...twice.  www.qth.com   is way better anyway.

 

              Mike KK2DOG

 


 
> Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:46:02 -0500
> From: swanman at cfu.net
> To: icom at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [ICOM] Selling via QRZ.COM
> 
> 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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