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"Mark S. Holden" wrote:

MnMikew wrote:
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gy.com.. .

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"Michael Lawson" wrote:


"Telamon" wrote in
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gy.com.. .

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"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

Thank you very much Mark. This page had me laughing out loud.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

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



I can't keep it up long, but

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


Thank you very much Mark. This page had me laughing out loud.


I suspected it wasn't long for this world, so I saved the page on my
office computer, and it was still up when I went home for lunch so I
snagged another copy there.

Personally, I thought it needed more puffery, private bidding and a
story of someone drinking tea with a lemon just like this one while some
important historical event took place.

My favorite line in the listing was:

"If the item received is not as expected please CONTACT ME, before
leaving negative feedback, as I always try to retaliate."

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"Mark S. Holden" wrote:

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



I can't keep it up long, but

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


Thank you very much Mark. This page had me laughing out loud.


I suspected it wasn't long for this world, so I saved the page on my
office computer, and it was still up when I went home for lunch so I
snagged another copy there.

Personally, I thought it needed more puffery, private bidding and a
story of someone drinking tea with a lemon just like this one while some
important historical event took place.

My favorite line in the listing was:

"If the item received is not as expected please CONTACT ME, before
leaving negative feedback, as I always try to retaliate."

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."

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

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".

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".

LOL! It's still food, just reprocessed food! Organically separated
ingredients!

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

Telamon wrote:

In article ,
"Mark S. Holden" wrote:

MnMikew wrote:
"Telamon" wrote in
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gy.com.. .

In article ,
"Michael Lawson" wrote:


"Telamon" wrote in
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gy.com.. .

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

Thank you very much Mark. This page had me laughing out loud.

That pic with the multimeter reminds me of a picture of Scientology
founder L. Ron Hubbard hooking up an electrical meter (called an E-meter
in the cult) to a tomato via a nail driven through said tomato in an
attempt to "audit" the vegetable. (For more info visit xenu.net and
search for this pic.)