Leonard,

I don't consider myself a OM moneybag but he had an item that looked
flawless. He had a steep price on it but as with many things, you get what
you usually pay for. I drove to his house in Sadieville, didn't want to
scratch it, and up the hill and loaded the item into my truck. While I was
there, being charmed, I asked him to fire the amp up and he replied that he
didn't have 220 in his house to do that. I took him at his word .. he seemed
nice enough. While there, he showed me how he could photograph something to
hide it's flaws .. clue #1 missed! On the way home it hit me that he had
central air running in his house! I broke into a cold sweat realizing that
his not having 220 at the house, was an outright lie. When I got home I
fired it up .. no HV .. despite his assurance that he had seen HV on the
meter. New transformer, open secondary, new bridge diodes, one section dead
short, and I finally saw HV. The new tubes that he claimed were included put
out about 800 watts tops. New finals too. Finally an amp that worked the way
he originally said it would. You do the math!

I have watched his auctions also and he has had some nice looking gear but I
remember that nice looking amp! Many people got good deals and those are the
ones who poopoo what is being said here, those who are naive enough to
believe that all deals with him were good ones or guys like me are dumb.
Those who believe that it's the buyer or Ebay that's the problem are
ignorant. I still have all of the pictures that he sent and all of his
email, full of deception and outright lies. In fact, one picture shows one
of the leads from the HV transformer secondary tucked behind the frame of
the transformer and not connected to the bridge but when you have never seen
one of these beasts before you don't know.

I received an email for a guy who read a previous post on Radio-Mart. The
poor guy was totally distressed because Martyn was on his tail threatening
him etc with totally rediculous stuff, law suits, police action, and from
what I was seeing it was just more Radio-Mart garbage. Martyn has a way of
being very nasty once the money is in his hand, not Mr. Nice Guy anymore.

Let's hope that either the people get wise to him or he gets shut down and
sent back to the UK.

And to Martyn .. if you read this .. have a nice day!



"Leonard Martin" wrote in message
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"LHPB" wrote:


This is interesting indeed. I'm an ebay fan, subset: watcher of old
radio auctions. For a long time radio-mart seemed to do really well
selling to the moneyed old hams who shovel $$ out the door like mad
buying old radios from their youth. Then one day I bought an S-meter
from him and it proved to be flawed. My admiration went away, but I
still followed his auctions with interest. All his radios seemed to look
so good! and the moneybags hams trusted him!

Suddenly, a few months ago, he was kicked off ebay...and only now am I
getting my curiosty satisfied about the likely reason. I will put
gottahaveit1995 on my "favorite" sellers list right away.

The saga continues.

Leonard

--
"Everything that rises must converge"
--Flannery O'Connor