I know thiss is a swap forum, but this seems to be the best place to seek
info for me.

I was successful bidder in October on a IFR FM/AM-1100S. First had to wait
for approval of my End User Certificate, which was in mid December. I made
the transaction, paid the "UPS Store" to pick it up and ship it to me. It
didn't work, naturally. Spent about 15 hours making it work. So far so good.

I get an e-mail today. The Government has changed its core to require
"demilitarization", meaning they want me to ship it back, it is to be
destroyed. AN IFR! ??? Its part of the fine print. And I guess if I bought a
surplus h-bomb I can understand it, but this is such benign equipment. It
can be bought on Ebay almost constanty one is available.

Does anyone have any experience with somehting like this? And if so, is it
possible to talk some sense into their head? As my first purchase like this
I certainly will never bid on anything again with them. There's always
scopes being sold, etc. And if an IFR can be called back, anything can, so
be warned there as well.

Thanks for listening.

GeorgeC W2DB
george at dyb dot com

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:19:37 -0600, "George Csahanin" wrote:

I get an e-mail today. The Government has changed its core to require
"demilitarization", meaning they want me to ship it back, it is to be
destroyed. AN IFR! ??? Its part of the fine print. And I guess if I bought a
surplus h-bomb I can understand it, but this is such benign equipment. It
can be bought on Ebay almost constanty one is available.

Does anyone have any experience with somehting like this? And if so, is it
possible to talk some sense into their head?...

This is what your local Congressman is for -- call his district office and ask
for help.

-- Larry

The thing that gets me is that it just makes no sense. Its equipment
available anywhere, no big secrets, etc.

And yeah, I won't ever bid again, which I will convey to Govt Liquidation,
who I bid through. If they do enough business they can maybe exert some
pressure, as a matter of protecting their cut.

And all this after I waited 3 months for the EUC to be approved, which I
tought was for this purpose, make sure it was not going to the wrong hands,
etc. Makes the EUC pointless.

Oh well, I found another on Ebay for same price. The only down side is that
they won't pay the shipping from them to me.

And I called, they guy said pretty much what you said, if I don't have it,
note it on the return letter and that's the end of it. So...why bother...It
just makes no sense...

Well, thanks for the understanding ear.

-GeorgeC


"Just4Me" wrote in message
...
You can also simply say you no longer have possession of it as it was sold
somewhere but since you have it that is a problem.

I received the same letter for equipment I bought in the past (over a year
ago) and I sent them a nasty letter back to the effect that I had no idea
where it was and since I trade all the time at hamfests so they are out of
luck.

They accepted it.

For some unknown reason there has been a change in Govt. Policy and they
have made it retroactive. They have been starting to do that on many
electronic auction items over the past year or so and it is a stupid
policy which means they will cost you and I the tax payer large amounts of
money because we will no longer buy from Govt. auctions.

I must also say that a number of us have ceased buying at that auction
because of the same problem you are having. Many more can expect to get
those letters in the future I was told.
GUD Luck!