[R-390] Re: RadioMart Does It Again, With An R-392

[Patrick Jankowiak]

I have never dealt with radio-mart, what puts me off about similarly worded 
auctions in general are statements like these, which seem to give alot of 
squirming room for the seller on weak pretense:

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"This is all done primarily to protect me from the people who buy working 
equipment, then remove parts and want to send it back to me as non-working 
and expect a refund."

--- what? people do this? sounds like a fishy story to me.

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"Why Private? Well several winning bidders each week were being contacted 
after the sale ended and offered similar items by fraudulent sellers, to 
stop this practice, I decided to implement this feature so as to protect 
the identity of all bidders, not even I see who won until after the sale 
and I certainly cannot see who else had bid except for the winning bidder."

--- It's for your protection.. er.., that is, the seller's protection more 
likely, to hide the identity of bidders from each other. Also makes it 
easier to have collusion or trickery by the seller during the bidding.

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"As e-Bay compresses my pictures, ..."

--- umm.. get your good pics onto a server and link them like everyone 
else? There's no excuse for making excuses for images from a professional.

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"Collins R-392/URR in exceptional, Original Condition**"

--what's with the "**"? I saw no disclaimer, maybe it's hidden or I did not 
look well enough.

It could be something like:
note: the equipment described in this text may or not be the equipment 
described in theis text, may be inaccurately described, might be something 
else entirely, or the text description may be as full of **** as a 
thanksgiving turkey.

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anyway, these are red flags which pop up for me in ebay auctions. If the 
auction or seller seems questionable, the wisest thing to do is not bid.

PJ