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September 26th 03, 03:00 AM

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 19:30:19 UTC, (Doug Shields)
wrote:

Hello all,
I just purchased a Heathkit high voltage regulated supply on Ebay.
The description stated "It has been tested to power up and nothing
more." When I received the supply I found that 3 of the 6 tubes (2 x
6L6GC and 1 6BH6) in the supply were missing. I thought that "powers
up" means that at least the filaments light up on any form of tube
equipment. Am I wrong? The seller plugged it in and apparently the
pilot light came on which to him means that it powers up. The seller
refuses to listen to anything and has told me "We consider this a
closed issue, no more correspondence." Is it me? Thanks. BTW, does
anyone have two good 6L6GC tubes at a reasonable price?

Doug W4DAS

Give him negative feedback on his attitude. As for the missing
tubes, did he say, "it seems to be all there" or "I looked in
and 3 tubes are missing", well, that's your call.

Here's a story, I bought a "parts SB-303" on eBay and was surprised
that all the lower chassis boards were missing. This was not
disclosed.

On the other hand, I only paid about $70 for it and got an SSB and a
CW filter (worth maybe $30 each) and an LMO (worth $50-100) as well
as other parts that I used to restore other Heaths.

So, yeah, he scammed me. Perhaps other bidders with a better
sense for scams were scared off. But I ended up with parts worth
twice what I paid AND parts that I needed to repair my other radios.

I'm restoring Heath SB's and having a spare LMO is a worth more than
I paid.

In fact, I suspect that if he had been up front about what was
missing and what was there, that folks would have bid higher.