[R-390] auction scams

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> EBAY has been finally, begrudgingly accepted by most hams. I don't
> personally care whether anyone buys through it or not. I STILL like to see
> items of interest offered on the various reflectors available to us
> first-but with prices reaching a degree of parity, it doesn't matter nearly
> as much any more. And I really HATE to see inaccurate reporting-and whether
> or not the laptop / computer market has more than its share of fraud going
> on within EBAY, that's NOT what was represented here. EBAY as a whole has
> worked just fine for me.
> 
> P.S. And for the record... while I have "hundreds" of purchases over the
> years, I have never sold one single thing via EBAY. I think #2 son has-but
> don't really know that for a fact.
> 
> 73 Ed Tanton N4XY <n4xy@earthlink.net>




If you read some of the other news stories about ebay you will find that the
ripoff statistics are very high in some categories....far from the
boatanchor interests we have. I've bought a few radio related things on ebay
and have been very happy with the sellers. Les pointed me to my RBL-5 that
was being offered and I got it for $80 I think. It was way under
represented, in my opinion, as it was in just about mint condition. This is
the radio that got sent to about 4 wrong locations and the seller kept
calling and tracking for me. He wrapped it in a big ball of foam and it
survived just fine.

If you are into sports memorabilia, then be prepared to run a high risk of
being scammed. You know, autographed baseballs, and things like that. There
are areas where the ripoff rate is quite high, but obviously not in radios.
I saw something on Fox a few days ago about computers having a high number
of ripoff artists on ebay.


Barry