Hi All,
I have a weird question. In the process of restoring or acquiring pieces
for your phonographs, have sellers asked you to do odd things beyond
cutting a check?
I'm trying to restore my Columbia-Kolster Viva-Tonal 950 and found a guy on
youtube who has a speaker that matches what my 950
If you ask me, the seller is the fishy one.John Robles
--- On Wed, 5/8/13, Arvin Casas it...@arvincasas.com wrote:
From: Arvin Casas it...@arvincasas.com
Subject: [Phono-L] Weird things to do just for a part.
To: phono-l@oldcrank.org
Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 11:57 AM
Hi All,
I have a
Boy, this Gary guy seems a bit paranoid. He could always wait for the check
to clear before sending the speaker. OTOH, I think you can post private
video to Youtube. You'd send the link to Gary and tell him to let you know
when he'd seen it. Then you could remove it, I would think.
Ron L
I'm of course baffled by this. In all my years of collecting, I've never
encountered anyone who is the slightest bit strange, odd, paranoid, socially
awkward, difficult, maladjusted, or otherwise different from the accepted
mainstream.
And I know none of the rest of you ever ever have,
I considered hosting a video on my website in a password protected
directory but then I thought it's a long way to go to prove I exist.
I fully understand not wanting to get ripped off because it's incredibly
easy these days, but at some point you have to take that Indiana Jones
leap of faith.
He says all the radio people do it. I don't think so! It might be logical
for the seller to post a video of a machine, but not a buyer. Better steer
clear of this wacko.
Jim
On May 8, 2013, at 5:52 PM, Arvin Casas it...@arvincasas.com wrote:
I considered hosting a video on my website in a
Arvin,I have bought numerous things on eBay from all over the world, with no
real problems, except one. I didn't want to use PayPal and offered to send cash
or a money order drawn on a reputable bank. I know eBay frowns on this
practice, but I hate to have the seller pay more fees to use PayPal
How about paying with a postal money order?
Just go to the post office, have it made
payable to the seller, purchase it, put it
in an envelope and mail it to him. It's as good as
cash. He can cash it right at his local post office.
That way, it should not matter to him whether you exist
or not.
I just have to make a comment about
collectors...WE are the weirdest bunch of folks
around. Over the years of collecting phonos, radios, and records, I have
met paranoids, cheapskates, grumpy old guys, loony right-wingers, guys with
guns and/or big rolls of hundred
I think the word money order scared her,. I get offered money orders on
Craigslist all the time, alone with offers of extra money to hold the item,
etc. Stolen money orders are a big business and the basis of a lot of scams.She
could have taken cash though.John
--- On Wed, 5/8/13, Vinyl
That's an interesting thought. When we were discussing price I finally
offered him 3x what he paid for (he mentions the price he found it for in
his video). He had originally asked for 4x. Oddly he settled on $5 LESS
than my final offer. I wonder if he wants his $5? He had already
calculated
The validity of Postal Money Orders can be verified by taking the serial
numbers to the USPS and they will call the fraud unit and verify them.
Postal Money Orders are real popular for forgery.
On 05/08/2013 06:08 PM, chuck richards wrote:
How about paying with a postal money order?
Just go
This was posted on 78-L and it was certainly new to me. And I'm sure the
rest of you will want to know about it.
Someone has scanned all of Wendell Moore's reprints of the Edison
Phonograph Monthly and put them on Archive.org as searchable documents.
Well, all I know is that one dude in TX ordered
some blanks from me, and paid using a U.S. Postal
Service money order. I just presented it to
the clerk at the post office and she handed me the
money. Pretty slick, I thought!
Chuck
Original Message
From: rich-m...@octoxol.com
To:
Since he was asking 4x and agreed to $5 less than your offer of 3x, it probably
has to do with the price. However, since he wants a video of the part actually
being used in your restoration, who knows? A lot of people are using radio
speakers for iPod docks and he might want to make sure that
Thanks, for the info Steve...
From: srsel...@aol.com
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 21:11:33 -0400
To: phono-l@oldcrank.org
Subject: [Phono-L] And Now for a real reference find for Edison collectors!
This was posted on 78-L and it was certainly new to me. And I'm sure the
rest of you will
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