Jim Lux wrote:
... It's one thing to have an obscure
ham oriented website and sell widgets obviously intended only for hams..
another to have a big online-store and sell obviously commercial
products with a "wink, wink" disclaimer about only selling to hams, when
in actuality, anyone with a credit card can get it.

The FCC enforcement logs are full of things like folks are selling
"experimenter" video transmitters, but doing no substantive validation
of the buyer. Ditto the stores selling various and sundry CB equipment.

You forgot to mention purchasing it from outside our borders, perhaps
Russia, for example.

You forgot purchasing the parts and constructing it yourself, again,
Russian parts/plans are the cheapest ... (my city has the furtherest
inland seaport, yanno ...)

Now, what am I forgetting?

Really, I have a doctors appt. at 11 am ... gotta go ... bbl

Regards,
JS