When Joon first showed up on ebay he was a lot more accommodating. He would even combine packages to save on shipping costs. I never did buy anything from him with the expectation that it would work. To my surprise, I did get a 5061A from him about 4 years ago that still had a valid warranty sticker on the tube. An obvious replacement, but, other than for the battery charging circuit, it worked fine. I do not think I have bought anything from him since and I was a pretty good customer of his. It is strictly a business now and the customer be damned. So, I do not need anything he has to offer. - Mike
Mike B. Feher, N4FS 89 Arnold Blvd. Howell, NJ, 07731 732-886-5960 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Ackermann N8UR Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 9:39 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] eBay saga re: Test Equipment Surplus, eBay id jtsele, aka [EMAIL PROTECTED] aka Joon Kyong. Robert Atkinson wrote: > Hi Chris, > I'm always suspicious of sellers with lots of conditions like "you can > pick up but will still be charged a packing fee". > If your refund was by PayPal you should have got the full amount, PayPal > will have refunded his fees. I'd tell PayPal. > If you think he is reselling a known faulty unit as working, report that > to eBay, I've had this problem and eBay took action. > I think too many sellers get away with this because the feedback system > is one sided, buyers are afraid of getting retaliatory feedback, I shows > up more if you only buy a few items. Retaliatory feedback is a problem. I'm not a real active buyer/seller, but I've collected about 150 feedbacks over the years. In that time, I've only left two or three negatives for others, and believe me, those were well deserved. But a couple of months ago I was looking for some ~5A Astron 12V power supplies, and bought one from an estate sale. It arrived jammed into a UPS priority shipping box with a single sheet of styrofoam around it. The sharp corners of the case had shredded the styrofoam to bits and when I opened the box the supply was bouncing around and there was literally styrofoam dust coating everything. I don't know whether it was due to the bad shipping or not, but the power transformer had busted loose from its mount and had banged up the circuit board inside the unit to the point where the thing was a write-off. And finally, there was a note inside that clearly indicated that the unit was defective and had had parts scavenged out of it. I sent an email to the seller asking for my money back. After waiting over two weeks for a response but hearing nothing, I finally posted a negative feedback. I immediately got an incoherent negative in response accusing me of lying and claiming that they would have happily refunded my money if I'd asked (which of course I'd done, to no avail). That was the first negative, or even neutral, feedback I've ever gotten. I'll think twice before posting feedback again... John _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.1/391 - Release Date: 7/18/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.1/391 - Release Date: 7/18/2006 _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
