I think it was started some years back and folks seem to think they need to add it to their sales ad.
Personally, if I am looking for a piece of equipment and I see this little phrase added to the blurb, I ignore it. My feeling is that if the selling person is saying he doesn't trust someone, then how can he be trusted?!? As others have said, it's a copout way of saying the seller doesn't want to be bothered with returns. YMMV. 73 de Jim - KE8G On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 3:17 PM jerry <[email protected]> wrote: > This is of real concern to me. I have an accumulation of ham equipment, > and > probably need to start moving some of it out - to make room in my life > for more ham equipment :). > > It's not that I need the money... got plenty of that. I could keep > buying equipment the rest of my life and sluff off the selling job to > my heirs :). But that would be dumb. What's the use of having all this > nice stuff in the closet? > > At the moment there's a pair of K2's - one 100W and one 10W. An > IC706MKII with very low hours. A Kenwood TS590S. A 30L-1. A > collection of Sideband Engineers SB34 transceivers. A QRP-labs QCX+ & > matching 50W amp. A small collection of ARC-5 transmitters & receivers. > A Ubitx transceiver. A couple of old sweep tube linears. 3 or 4 ( > think there's 4, but haven't seen the fourth one in a while ) TV7D/U > tube testers - my goodness, has anybody seen what those things are going > for on Ebay? Also, I expect my Alpha 78 to become surplus some time > next year. > > In the past, there was a ham radio swap meet in Silicon Valley. > That's gone for the moment due to COVID. Even the venue ( Fry's > Electroncs ) is gone. I've been going to this thing since the early > 70's. I would mostly buy, but also sold. I've been there as early as > 4:30 in the morning... but I have never been first. > Fond memories... There was that Swan 500 that I scored for $100 at 6:00 > in the morning. > > In the 80's, I was getting fairly prosperous, and I started buying all > the stuff I had drooled over as a starving student in the 70's. A Drake > TR4... A Collins R390A ( $100 ). A Galaxy 5 in brand new condition > with the packing tape still on the tubes... > > Mostly, I sold it back a few months later at the same swap meet. > Storage space was always an issue. I used to joke that the most > valuable thing that traded places at the swap was not the stuff... or > the money.. but rather Silicon Valley real estate; storage space in > people's attics and garages. I developed an rule: I would buy nothing > that would not fit in a backpack. > > The flea market was more than a sales venue - it was a community. I > would see familiar > people there. There was the soldering iron guy... the cables & > connectors family that came up from LA; Rik the cheap Chinese tools guy > who also had supermagnets. Mark the > CTO of Netgear, who would come up in his old VW microbus and sell > detritus from his lab. > He was an excellent source of wall warts. > > At the flea market, what you see is what you get. Does it work? Show > me. You could > get a feel for the guy behind the table, person to person. > > Anyway... selling on line to people far away - seems like a lot of > work. Have to pack stuff up, haul it off to the shipping store, freak > out at how much they charge, worry about parts swappers.... Maybe I'll > just wait till the swap meet starts up again in 2022. > > - Jerry KF6VB > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 2021-10-29 22:45, Larry Shapiro wrote: > > When I first started listing items on QRZ, I was told by a handful of > > guys to always put this in my listings. > > I asked why,and was told that it happens too frequently. > > I started to add the parts swappers line to my listings. > > I have not had any issues,other than one buyer who > > was a real pain. > > After reading this this thread,I have decided not to do this anymore. > > In my 33 years as a Ham,I have had 99% great experiences with other > > Hams. > > Thanks, > > Larry k6ro > > > > -----Original Message----- From: Anthony Wanschura > > Sent: Friday, October 29, 2021 6:30 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [Elecraft] Parts swappers -- is this a real "thing" > > > > Hi all, > > > > I've seen a few K3 For Sale ads that mention "parts swappers". Has this > > really been an issue? > > > > It makes me hesitate to put my K3 up for sale. > > > > 73, > > Tony KM0O > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Elecraft mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
