In article ,
Darrin wrote:

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 03:16:15 GMT, "Rich Carlson, N9JIG"
wrote:

In article ,
Just Lou wrote:

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 23:16:02 GMT, "Rich Carlson, N9JIG"
wrote:

In article ,
UnderSerf wrote:

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 16:01:50 -0400, Just Lou wrote:

Check out the description on this Pro-96. The sad part is some idiot
will believe it. My favorite line is if the bidding reaches $700,
he'll pay the shipping. shaking head

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3049364468

this happended last year too, right before the 785 was actually
shipped several vendors were insisting they had them several weeks
ahead of everyone else

the complaints to eBay shut most of 'em down...

until they got a new UID

=US=


Actually there really isn't anything wrong with this ad (so far). At
$415.00 (as I write this) it isn't a bad deal and the shipping cost is
reasonable. If his starting price was higher than the $499 RS sells it
for then there would be an issue. The selling price is right now below
the purchase price available to mere mortals. I don't know if there was
a reserve price or not but the start price was apparently $1.00. The
seller took a gamble and it remains to be seen whether he makes money or
not.

As always with eBay, one needs to know what they are bidding on. If
someone wants to bid $700 for a $500 scanner that is readily available
via mail order now then they deserve to pay it. It could be some people
will pay a premium price to get the radio now rather than wait the 2
weeks or so before the radio is availble in stores. After all how many
of us paid $560 or so to get the radio now via mail? I could have saved
the taxes and shipping by waiting til they were out in the stores and
have my brother-in-law slip over to Delaware and pick one up where there
is no sales tax. It was worth the extra $60 to me to get it now rather
than next month.


I have a problem when the ad is total bull****. There was no "Radio
Shack recall", and there is nothing special about his"hot off the
line" Pro-96...And the list price is not over $500 as stated.

Actually there was. The first batch had to go back as the pre-programmed
freqs were missing. The radios that were involved were the very first
batch that had gone out to developers and sales as well as a few
selected vendors. The second batch out had that problem corrected.

At $499.99 plus tax and shipping there was (and is) no place to get the
radio now for less than $500.00. While the List Price is indeed a penny
less than $500.00 the ad is fine.

How about the nonsense that "most police/fire/emergency radio systems
are now digital"? The whole ad is so misleading, it's comical. Unless
you're the poor slob that doesn't know any better.

Depends on where you are at. In some areas installing digital systems
that is correct. Yes, most ads overstate the importance of items but
this ad happens to be pretty much on the mark.

I don't know the guy who has the radio but if I hadn't already bought
one (for $560 with tax and shipping) I would be bidding on it...

--
Rich Carlson, N9JIG rich (at) n9jig.com
IL Highways and Scanner page: http://www.n9jig.com
Chicago Area Radio Monitoring Association: http://www.carmachicago.com

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