"Jim Hackett" wrote in message
nk.net...
Yea, you did. VERY good price. I just acquired an NRD525 for $430. Not
as
good of a bargain but it IS like new.
"Brian Hill" wrote in message
...
I just got lucky and aqired one for $150. Very nice radio with excellent
audio. Great for program listening.
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B.H.
Brian's Basement
http://webpages.charter.net/brianhill/6.htm
Brian's Radio Universe
http://webpages.charter.net/brianhill/500.htm
Hi guys
Great prices on both of them. Damn I'd pay $150 any day for a 700 if it
worked well. What a deal! I'd be freaking out and wouldn't be able to sit
still once I got it home and found everything worked on it too. Wow Brain
you got a superb deal. Something to be very, very happy about.
Now Jim,
I got ya beat on the 525. I paid $285 including shipping and the seller
shipped it in a Pelican case!
OK here's the deal. The guy does free lance work for ABC T.V. sports events
and sports news. He had a massive collection of SW radios in metal racks
lining all the walls!
Now, I won the auction and paid like $450 for it since he just joined Ebay
and had zero feedback. No buys or sells at all so I took a chance. It
arrived a Pelican case! If you know what they are you can see how this guy
treated his equipment. That's IMO only.
It sounded great and every button and function worked like it should.
BUT......
when I had the chance to disconnect it and look it over, I found a big
round scratch on the side of the case. It wasn't dented, but just like a 4"
round scratch on
I was ****ed off man. I asked him how the f*uc he couldn't mention it in the
auction. He honestly said he looked it over and in was in good shape, that
he hardly used it. I wanted to believe him. I mean sending the radio in a
Pelican case cost him more in shipping costs then more standard ways for
sure. { it also cost me more to send the case back to them}
I want to say I was impressed by his verbal skills and having the class to
send the receiver by the method he did. I didn't what to make of all this.
Plus he said cleaning out one of rooms and I'll see more rigs for sale on
Ebay by him and he want the best he can do.
I didn't know what to do. On one hand I had a radio that worked well. The
seller was older but not old enough to keep him from working for ABC
T.V.events. He says he doesn't abuse his equipment and never has.
Then why a big round scratch on the side not even noticed? On the other
hand, this could have been nothing but a scam since he had no other feedback
to go by.
OK, I decided the whole thing is bullcrap and I ask for my $470 back. I told
him he's paying my shipment fees back to him since I didn't believe his
story and told him so. That I'm sending everything back.
A couple hours later he wrote me and made me this offer.
"I'm tell you what Lucky. You seem like a nice and fair guy. You give me
what you think the radio is worth. That's right. I'm trusting you to spend a
few days with it and give me what you think is fair price.
Basically he said he trusting me not to give him something ridiculous for
it.
After giving it some thought and telling him I'm holding back any bad
feedback, and sading the radio back, he would have to agree my protective
deal first. I told him I want the full price I paid for the radio plus
shipping put back into my Paypal in CASH right away. Not later but now. This
will also show me I'm dealing with honest, innocent people.
Then I'll give you want I thought it was worth. He agreed. I offered him
$275 for the radio, not a cent more plus I'll send the case back to you on
my tab. He wanted to let me keep the Pelican case too but when I found out
they are not cheap cases, I sent it back to him. Hey, I'm not to take the
opportunity and weasel a free expensive Peligan case out of him and his
family if there is truly a doubt in my mind if he was really a con artist or
just some innocent excentric.
Anyway, we ended being friends and he did sell like 85 more radios and radio
related items after I bought mine. I believe he only got like 2 bad
feedbacks.
*****whoops. SPOKE TOO SOON. He did have excellent feedback after my deal
now he's got 11 bad feedbacks and is no longer a member of Ebay.
http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAP...serid=rf-audio
Well, to this day my NRD-525 works great. No problems, the main functions
are OK and so is everything else.
So, for $275, I see I got Lucky!
Oh man the guy just flipped out or something after his other half was doing
was well
Check out his Ebay profile. Scary
rf-audio
At least I have my well worth it JRC NRD-252 !
Lucky