[Milsurplus] 2 things, Fair Radio and Bomar

[W2HX]

>The Fair Radio auction is in pre bid mode right now.  I have one issue in that you have to provide a credit card up front, including your security code, and the only way to be removed from the auction companies data base...ever, is to write them, USPS mail it to them requesting your information and credit card date be deleted from the computers.

I use a free service called Privacy.com. They have a website and an app. For every new vendor (like this auction house) I click one button and it creates a new credit card number for me. I can lock this credit card to the first merchant that uses it and/or limit the dollar amount that can be charged (so if it is stolen you have some protection). And when I'm done with the purchase, I close the card. In fact, you can set it to be a "single use" card so it closes after the first charge (auction house).

In the backend, you put in your regular credit card for the source of funds. 

I use it when I travel abroad as well, creating a new CC number for every meal. Takes ZERO time, just one tap. 
I love this service, I am not affiliated with them in any way, but I use it religiously.

There are similar services and I am sure they are all pretty good, but in this way, I never have to worry about giving someone my credit card number and what might happen to it in the future.

73 Eugene W2HX
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From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net <milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of CL in NC via Milsurplus
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2024 12:07 PM
To: Milsurplus <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [Milsurplus] 2 things, Fair Radio and Bomar

The Fair Radio auction is in pre bid mode right now.  I have one issue in that you have to provide a credit card up front, including your security code, and the only way to be removed from the auction companies data base...ever, is to write them, USPS mail it to them requesting your information and credit card date be deleted from the computers.

Bomar...they actually ran an ad in QST a couple years ago after ICM's demise advertising crystals for ham use.  I called the sales desk within a couple weeks, and the people I talked to had absolutely no idea what I was talking about, had never heard of Amateur Radio.  When I finally got to someone with a modicum of crystal and Bomar company knowledge, I found out one crystal would cost $100 with several weeks of lead time.  There was a quantity discount so anybody thinking of a Bomar crystal may want to advertise here, AMPHONE or QTH looking for others needing the same freq. and ordering in quatity There was a Brit company a while back, Quartzslab producing crystals almost as inexpensively as ICM, but I can not find them on the internet now.

Charlie,  W4MEC in NC
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