I agree with all negative comments regarding RadioMart, but I think most
people in the hobby already know about him and have him filtered out of
their eBay searches. He caters to the newbies.

However, I disagree that eBay is a bad place to buy gear. It is definitely
the largest collection of radio and related equipment available, and with
careful buying it is possible to avoid being taken. I have had a few
attempts to rip me off, but Paypal is your best friend when it comes to
getting your money back. EBay knows it can't afford to alienate buyers with
a bad reputation and so it protects sellers pretty well. And the nice thing
about eBay is that if a particular seller seems shady or uncooperative, just
walk away. Another one just like it will always come up.


"Rev. Cleetus Poontang" wrote in message
groups.com...
"Chuck - K1KW" wrote in message
. ..
Item # 9738158955
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=9738158955
Check this BS out! Amazing that this jerk continues to sell on Ebay with
his obvious lies and misrepresentation. This is nothing more than a poor
homebrew fake. I know who made it and he made a few more out of surplus
items. RADIOMART's stories are totally made up. He has no personal
collections, he swindles SK widows and runs another ebay name to buy on
the
cheap and then makes up stories about the same equipment to lend
credibility. This guy is a snake. BEWARE!!!!!




There's one born every minute. (Especially on E-Screw!)
Anyone who would buy ham gear on e-Bay deserves to be taken.

On 7/12/06 4:23 AM, in article , "Unrevealed
Source" wrote:

I agree with all negative comments regarding RadioMart, but I think most
people in the hobby already know about him and have him filtered out of
their eBay searches. He caters to the newbies.

However, I disagree that eBay is a bad place to buy gear. It is definitely
the largest collection of radio and related equipment available, and with
careful buying it is possible to avoid being taken.

There is no absolute way to avoid being taken short of trying to buy
elsewhere.

I have had a few
attempts to rip me off, but Paypal is your best friend when it comes to
getting your money back.

Ebay owns Paypal. They watch each other's backs.


EBay knows it can't afford to alienate buyers with
a bad reputation and so it protects sellers pretty well. And the nice thing
about eBay is that if a particular seller seems shady or uncooperative, just
walk away. Another one just like it will always come up.

After a sale, when the purchased item arrives and the buyer can see it was
misrepresented, Ebay always supports the seller; that's where their money
comes from.

Although eBay is convenient, the company employs dummys, and is impossible
to deal with when there is a problem.



"Rev. Cleetus Poontang" wrote in message
groups.com...
"Chuck - K1KW" wrote in message
. ..
Item # 9738158955
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=9738158955
Check this BS out! Amazing that this jerk continues to sell on Ebay with
his obvious lies and misrepresentation. This is nothing more than a poor
homebrew fake. I know who made it and he made a few more out of surplus
items. RADIOMART's stories are totally made up. He has no personal
collections, he swindles SK widows and runs another ebay name to buy on
the
cheap and then makes up stories about the same equipment to lend
credibility. This guy is a snake. BEWARE!!!!!




There's one born every minute. (Especially on E-Screw!)
Anyone who would buy ham gear on e-Bay deserves to be taken.

"Unrevealed Source" wrote in
:

I agree with all negative comments regarding RadioMart, but I think
most people in the hobby already know about him and have him filtered
out of their eBay searches. He caters to the newbies.

However, I disagree that eBay is a bad place to buy gear. It is
definitely the largest collection of radio and related equipment
available, and with careful buying it is possible to avoid being
taken. I have had a few attempts to rip me off, but Paypal is your
best friend when it comes to getting your money back. EBay knows it
can't afford to alienate buyers with a bad reputation and so it
protects sellers pretty well. And the nice thing about eBay is that
if a particular seller seems shady or uncooperative, just walk away.
Another one just like it will always come up.

Exactly. I have several pieces of ham equipment that I bought on eBay
and I got what I paid for every time. The only real problems have been a
couple of people who mistook a customs invoice for a declaration of
replacement value for transport loss. In one case the difference was
large enough to need correction.

But I have, looking around here, a keyer, paddle, microphone, HF rig,
antenna tuner, audio DSP filter, artificial ground, Noise canceller,
speech processor, flashlight and reading light--all acquired via eBay.
And that's just my desktop. Around the room, a portable air conditioner,
another HF rig, digital TV receiver, HDTV VCR, DVD player, stereo, HDTV
set, and VHF-UHF handheld. In my bedroom there is an old S38B
Hallicrafters. All from eBay.

The trick, you see, is to evaluate the listing (and the lister's
feedback) to ensure that the item is what you want. Then don't bid
anything more than you're actually willing to pay for the item. Take
shipping into account. This means you will lose a lot of auctions. But
you should not care, since you will lose them to people willing to pay
more than YOU think the item is worth.

Now, a fair amount of that stuff was new when I bought it and came from
dealers who happen to operate eBay stores. But a lot of it was second-
hand as well.


--
Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667

well if you read his "final thoughts" included in each auction, that
enough is to make a person run away. It's all a ridiculous joke except
it's not funny.