[Milsurplus] It's Baaack. AR-88

[John Flood]

At the risk of dragging this out even more...  Aside from the fact that the guys BIN price is 2x or more(?) than is realistic, what is every ones problem with him?  If he is able to produce documentation that he did get it at an auction of freight salvage at UPS, why flame him?  I guess I missed some of the thread along the way...... and now to keep on track, I look forward to seeing you guys at Near-Fest.....  To go back off track, here at work, a guy once contacted me asking about some of our equipment he purchased at a freight salvage auction.  Looking at them, he said he thought the stainless steel housings looked like catalytic converters for large motors.  When I told them what they were he asked what could he do with them.  I tracked down the customer and the freight company had paid them but they were interested in the stuff.  We paid the guy what he had spent on the auction, ran the equipment through an extra burn in and
 calibration, gave an extended warranty, resold it to our customer and the stuff ended up, in the long run, where it was going in the first place.  In the "case of the AR-88, did the seller or buyer, whoever ended up with the money from the freight company, offer to buy it from the guy for what the original sales price was?  Feel free to reply direct as I fear the OT police will come after me!!!!
Again,  I look forward to seeing you guys at Near-Fest where a CR-88 will follow me home!  There back on track again!
 
John Flood
KB1FQG
 

 


----- Original Message ----
From: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
To: kim.herron at sbcglobal.net
Cc: whitaker at ieee.org; Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 10:31:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] It's Baaack. AR-88

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:34 PM,  <kim.herron at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Was this your radio Clete?  If so and you can describe it properly, then UPS
> should retrieve it for you, I'd think.  Did they pay off on the insurance?

Long story short: I bought this receiver from a listmember as a gift
for a friend. He also sent me most of the correct knobs for it, which
arrived fine. UPS 'lost' the radio, then found the opened crate sans
receiver. Seller reimbursed me promptly, UPS eventually paid his
claim, so it became their radio if found, and after it was found was
apparently sold at auction by UPS to this guy. The assumption is that
that someone (at or in a UPS facility) read 'electronics' on a big
heavy crate and saw dollar signs, opened it and discovered otherwise,
and abandoned it.

Mike, if you're reading this - I *still* have your box of knobs
sitting on the table, need to get them into the mail back to you this
week. The move south and NEAR-Fest have kept me busy.

~ Todd,  KA1KAQ
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