In article ,
"Mark S. Holden" wrote:

Telamon wrote:


I liked this:
"This is all done primarily to protect me from the people who buy food
items, consume them, and want to send it back to me as non-working and
expect a refund."


There are those who have said what they bought amounted to "used food".

Sorry to hear that. Did they get their money back?

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Telamon wrote:
In article ,
"Mark S. Holden" wrote:


Telamon wrote:


I liked this:
"This is all done primarily to protect me from the people who buy food
items, consume them, and want to send it back to me as non-working and
expect a refund."


There are those who have said what they bought amounted to "used food".


Sorry to hear that. Did they get their money back?


My impression is some do, and some don't.

I'm sure contacting him right away and being polite but firm helps.

But he doesn't refund shipping and handling if you return something and
that can be considerable on a boatanchor.

Anyone can make an honest mistake with a description - but if there's a
sign of intentional misrepresentation (pictures taken from angles to
hide serious damage on a radio described as "collector quality", or
something that's described as working like new but tubes were in wrong
sockets resulting in a fire when you turned it on) the seller should be
refunding for shipping - both ways.

I see nothing wrong with him buying radios that are poorly described and
reselling them with a better description. But he appears he'll buy a
radio thats honestly described warts and all, and then resell it with
phrases like "like new", "I can not fault this" and "collector quality".

His negative and neutral feedback can be entertaining to read.

http://www.toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs...rn=Received+by

Unfortunately, since he uses private auctions, you can't read the item
descriptions to evaluate if they were honest.

You can check the feedback of folks who left him negs, and he almost
always retaliates.

I did a google search for,Zenith Trans-Oceanic Radios

I think it was a Zenith model 7000 Trans-Oceanic Radio that the guy
sitting on the curb in front of Houlihan's on Bourbon Street had.The
round plastic dial thingy that rotates and has station listings on
it,that was the part that kept falling out of his radio.It wasen't
fastened into the radio at all and both of the front flip up/flip down
panels/covers was missing.Perhaps he thought he was looking like a big
shot totin that boat anchor around.

I'm goinnnn to Montana to danceeee the Houlihan,,,,,,,, Yipi yiiii yipi
yo,,,,,,,,, get alonggggg little dogey,,,,,, it's yourrrrr misfortune
and noneee of my ownnnnnn,,,,,,,,,
cuhulin

http://www.lazygranch.com/radiomart/radiomartspoof.htm

Consider it archived, and feel free to use the link any time you want.
If Martin is reading this, note that the right to parody and satire
have met legal challenges. Just ask Bill O'Reilly and Al Franken.

Mark S. Holden wrote:
MnMikew wrote:
"Telamon" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Michael Lawson" wrote:


"Telamon" wrote in message


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In article ,
"IonSpot" wrote:


You gotta check this out....it was bound to happen sooner or

later.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=5870131179

So what happened? The auction was pulled with no other information

when

I used the link.

It was a spoof of R-M. Instead of overpriced
radios (which can be lemons), the spoofer
was auctioning off a real lemon. Had R-M's
spiel down pat.

Was the lemon sitting on a red cloth?

Sounds funny and I'm sorry I missed it.


Yup. Perhaps it got archived somewhere.



I can't keep it up long, but

http://users.adelphia.net/~msholden/radiomartspoof.htm

I plugged in the Lemon and it lit up.
cuhulin

On 2006-02-22, wrote:
I plugged in the Lemon and it lit up.
cuhulin

was it something like this?
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu...ic/pickle.html

It fizzeled and it blew it's top.I guess them 240 volts from my electric
hot water heater line was too much for it.
cuhulin