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W7CXC

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Re: No return due to parts swappers
« Reply #30 on: March 29, 2021, 06:10:52 AM »

AH:

As usual near the end of the thread, or at least after ii has gotten "legs" it starts going down hill. That having been said........

 Not being in the sell/swap business Pay Pal is just another complication, to me, that is something else with an application, password, program or who knows what that there is no patience for here. I sell perhaps one or two items a year. Sometimes something that has been around the shack for years unused or that has been bought from another ham that I thought could not be lived without.

 One item , my TS450sat was sold because I bought another rig. Sorry I sold it, very happy with the new one! The HAM I sold it to claimed that iI had "jacked up the receiver" and went off on a tirade about the 450. It was truly like new and never opened up except to install a narrow CW filter. I was the original owner. A few weeks later I saw what appeared to be my 450 for sale on another swap board as in perfect shape , like new  and so on. Perhaps he was trying to shame me into a partial refund. He, upon checking, was or appeared to be in the business of buy/resell. I will never purchase an item from someone in the business again. Someone like me that once in a great while sells something, sure. Not ebay  for sure.

I use a check or postal money order. Say in the posting "after the check clears" but on the 4 0r 5 times have done that over the years have shipped as soon as the check shows up in the mail, Trust.

My point is that to exclude me because I will not use pay pal says more about you than me!

73's David

 
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K1QQQ

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Re: No return due to parts swappers
« Reply #31 on: April 20, 2021, 05:43:46 PM »

Ebay stinks. I see little of recent times but things with jacked up prices.


O-I use it for many minor things made in China, etc. but anything of value ?


Funny world. Anybody selling a radio can sell any DOA (dead on arrival) and blame the buyer.


Auctions. Spend days and days crossing your fingers and jacking up your bid by another dollar. At first I thought it might be real but when I lost every time and checked out the winner. Percentage of buyer/seller for transactions. Terribly high figure with the same two. --and both hardly sell/buy anything.....

How hard is it to have many user names on Ebay ?


If you had a radio that maybe used could fetch $900 but instead of selling at a price AUCTION.  The world is filled with suckers so ? As a buyer you sit there for a week all anxious raising your bid by another dollar on and on until at the very end you loose. Got anything better to do ?
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W9FIB

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Re: No return due to parts swappers
« Reply #32 on: April 21, 2021, 02:51:12 AM »

Auctions. Spend days and days crossing your fingers and jacking up your bid by another dollar. At first I thought it might be real but when I lost every time and checked out the winner. Percentage of buyer/seller for transactions. Terribly high figure with the same two. --and both hardly sell/buy anything.....

I used to think like that as well. Then I decided on a new strategy. I place my initial proxy bid at the maximum I am willing to pay. If I win, great! If I don't, I am not out anything. Takes all the angst out of the process.
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73, Stan
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G8FXC

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Re: No return due to parts swappers
« Reply #33 on: April 21, 2021, 08:51:24 AM »

Ebay stinks. I see little of recent times but things with jacked up prices.

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EBay is fine - to buy PL259 plugs at £1 each! I buy a lot of components via eBay - since all our high street component shops closed. But please - don't enter into any transaction on eBay that has a higher value than you would be happy to write off!

Martin (G8FXC)
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KM4AH

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Re: No return due to parts swappers
« Reply #34 on: April 22, 2021, 06:08:45 PM »

Anyone afraid to buy an item off of eBay regardless of the price because they are afraid of being cheated obviously has no clue about how eBay and PayPal actually work.

Any statement about no returns is meaningless if the seller  misrepresents the item.

Meaningless. Is something complicated about that ?
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