"Just about every radio from "him", is his personal unit, retubed
and tuned to factory spec's, or the best one he's ever seen.

Pretty much the same set of superlatives each time."


Sound like he is the right guy for the wrong job. He should be selling used
cars. I have met a number just like him there. Fortunately, I learned my
lesson after one car.

Clin K7FM



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I bought what was auctioned as 100 plus tubes from this guy. I only received
41 tubes and 11 of them were broken. I emailed the guy and he told me to
"QUITE WHINING". All I wanted was a refund.
You be the judge.
Gary
"Jay" wrote in message
...
I am interested in the Hallicrafters SX-9 On e-bay , but am concerned
about the terrible feed back on seller.
Any advise on purchasing from radio-mart ?
Thanks
Jay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=5744936655

If you go back far enough in this guy's feedback, you'll see that
someone accused him of bidding on his own auctions under the name
"gottahaveit1998" or something like that. Both accounts were then
suspended; I think the gottahaveit account is still gone. He came back
some time this fall - I had to chuckle when I saw his first auction and
it said "well, I'm back after an extended summer vacation". Yup, sure.

I do *not* know if he was bidding on his own auctions for sure. But he
and the gottahaveit guy sure traded a lot of feedback, and they both
lived in Ky, and they both had the first name martin...

73 John

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 01:26:15 UTC, wrote:

If you go back far enough in this guy's feedback, you'll see that
someone accused him of bidding on his own auctions under the name
"gottahaveit1998" or something like that. Both accounts were then
suspended; I think the gottahaveit account is still gone. He came back
some time this fall - I had to chuckle when I saw his first auction and
it said "well, I'm back after an extended summer vacation". Yup, sure.

I do *not* know if he was bidding on his own auctions for sure. But he
and the gottahaveit guy sure traded a lot of feedback, and they both
lived in Ky, and they both had the first name martin...

73 John


don't know if it's the same guy but I've bid against a
gottahaveit....,

Given my pattern of setting my own max price, I lost to him each
time. It's entertaining to consider that he had to pay eBay their
commission when he "beat" me. He does save on shipping, I suppose.

If a radio looks good, I make my best estimate and bid my max. I'm
a sniper and shill's nightmare. I also pay as fast as I can and
leave accurate feedback, so I'm a fair seller's dream. No games.

(I'm enjoying that very nice 75S-1.)

However, if you had bid, say $800 max for that mint SX-115 and nobody
else bid it past $500, the shill bidder (your "gottahaveit1998" friend)
will drive up the price for you. A radio you could have gotten for
$500 now might cost you $700 because of the shill bidder.

Anyone who deals like this is dishonest and should be *permanantly*
banned from eBay. Again, I do *not* know that gottahaveit1998 was
shilling for radiomart.

73 John W3JN

No Spam wrote:



If a radio looks good, I make my best estimate and bid my max.

I think most people also do that. Never heard anybody say they bid
their minimum.
:-)

-Bill

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:22:55 UTC, wrote:

However, if you had bid, say $800 max for that mint SX-115 and nobody
else bid it past $500, the shill bidder (your "gottahaveit1998" friend)
will drive up the price for you. A radio you could have gotten for
$500 now might cost you $700 because of the shill bidder.

Anyone who deals like this is dishonest and should be *permanantly*
banned from eBay. Again, I do *not* know that gottahaveit1998 was
shilling for radiomart.

73 John W3JN


I've written about my strategy and it covers more cases than that.

Part of it is knowing the product, the market, my desires, and
knowing what I will pay from the beginning. As I own an SX-101A and
a 75S-1, I'm not especially interested in an SX-115, mint or
otherwise. Why is an SX-115 $5,000 (or more) and a 75S-1 is
$250-300?

Using your example, I would "know" that the right price is $500

($500 is not the right price for an SX-115 but lets go with your
numbers and your example.)


If I really, really wanted that one, I would bid $687.

Scenario 1 - The shill comes along, jacks up the price 630, 650,
670, 690, figuring that like most people, I've got a proxy at 700,
and even number or 701, just over an even number. But no. I'm
sitting on 687 and -bing- he's got it.

Scenario 1a - The shill is waiting for me to have second thoughs,
"I'm not letting this one get away. I want it." hours pass, days,
the auction closes, too bad shill. I set my price. You can pay
eBay's commission.

Scenario 2 - We try again. This time the shill thinks he knows my
limit. Well, if I see a similar radio coming around a 2nd time, I
figure that there is a 3rd and a 4th. I got time. I got money. I
can wait. This time, I don't bid $687, this time I proxy bid $538.
Same thing happens, he edges up on me and -bing- he's got it again
and is paying a 2nd commision to eBay.

Scenario 3 - The shill opens. He sits on a $1.00 opening. I'm
still interested in the radio. I bid a fair price but lower
than before because I now believe that there are dozens of these
radios. I don't know I've been bidding on the same one but each
time it shows up, I drop my estimate of the price. Now I open with
$467. The bid goes up to $2.00

What does the shill do? How far can he ease the price up before
he's paying a 3rd commission to eBay?

I don't expect to "steal" a radio. I expect to pay a fair price.
If I get it for a little less, that's great. If I really want the
radio, I'll pay a little more than "market". How much more? That's
the question. Each time the shill guesses wrong, he pays a
commission to eBay.

He can't run the price up too high on me. Although I'm bidding $467
when everyone else is bidding $3, $9, $15.25. When they're caught up
in a bidding war and going $550, $580, I've dropped out at $467.


Finally, I like the nym "gottahaveit". It scares me off. I suppose
he chose it thinking that it would stimulate competition but I
respond differently. If you gotta-have-it, well, you can have it.

There're no guarentees.


--

WHO is Radio Mart?
WHERE does he live?
HOW will we recognize him at a hamfest?


Is he one of these guys like Thomas J. Bruckner who would go around to ham
fests buying tubes from hams for pennies on the dollar and then put them up
on his site http://www.elexs.com/ for 100's or a 1000 times more than
what he payed.

That little F****r always ****ed me off with his fox like approach to
picking apart some guy to buy his tubes. He would stuff his bag go back to
the car and hunt for more. He used to hit EVERY ham fest in the northeast
and midwest. It was funny as hell when he missed a deal. He would sputter
and sweat and try to talk the guy out of his purchase. He would have is wife
spotting the suckers and then he would go in for the kill.




"Jay" wrote in message
...
I am interested in the Hallicrafters SX-9 On e-bay , but am concerned
about the terrible feed back on seller.
Any advise on purchasing from radio-mart ?
Thanks
Jay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=5744936655

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:22:55 UTC, wrote:

However, if you had bid, say $800 max for that mint SX-115 and nobody
else bid it past $500, the shill bidder (your "gottahaveit1998" friend)
will drive up the price for you. A radio you could have gotten for
$500 now might cost you $700 because of the shill bidder.

Anyone who deals like this is dishonest and should be *permanantly*
banned from eBay. Again, I do *not* know that gottahaveit1998 was
shilling for radiomart.

73 John W3JN


I've written about my strategy and it covers more cases than that.

Part of it is knowing the product, the market, my desires, and
knowing what I will pay from the beginning. As I own an SX-101A and
a 75S-1, I'm not especially interested in an SX-115, mint or
otherwise. Why is an SX-115 $5,000 (or more) and a 75S-1 is
$250-300?

Using your example, I would "know" that the right price is $500

($500 is not the right price for an SX-115 but lets go with your
numbers and your example.)


If I really, really wanted that one, I would bid $687.

Scenario 1 - The shill comes along, jacks up the price 630, 650,
670, 690, figuring that like most people, I've got a proxy at 700,
and even number or 701, just over an even number. But no. I'm
sitting on 687 and -bing- he's got it.

Scenario 1a - The shill is waiting for me to have second thoughs,
"I'm not letting this one get away. I want it." hours pass, days,
the auction closes, too bad shill. I set my price. You can pay
eBay's commission.

Scenario 2 - We try again. This time the shill thinks he knows my
limit. Well, if I see a similar radio coming around a 2nd time, I
figure that there is a 3rd and a 4th. I got time. I got money. I
can wait. This time, I don't bid $687, this time I proxy bid $538.
Same thing happens, he edges up on me and -bing- he's got it again
and is paying a 2nd commision to eBay.

Scenario 3 - The shill opens. He sits on a $1.00 opening. I'm
still interested in the radio. I bid a fair price but lower
than before because I now believe that there are dozens of these
radios. I don't know I've been bidding on the same one but each
time it shows up, I drop my estimate of the price. Now I open with
$467. The bid goes up to $2.00

What does the shill do? How far can he ease the price up before
he's paying a 3rd commission to eBay?

I don't expect to "steal" a radio. I expect to pay a fair price.
If I get it for a little less, that's great. If I really want the
radio, I'll pay a little more than "market". How much more? That's
the question. Each time the shill guesses wrong, he pays a
commission to eBay.

He can't run the price up too high on me. Although I'm bidding $467
when everyone else is bidding $3, $9, $15.25. When they're caught up
in a bidding war and going $550, $580, I've dropped out at $467.


Finally, I like the nym "gottahaveit". It scares me off. I suppose
he chose it thinking that it would stimulate competition but I
respond differently. If you gotta-have-it, well, you can have it.

There're no guarentees.


--

"No Spam " No wrote


I've written about my strategy and it covers more cases than that.

Part of it is knowing the product, the market, my desires, and
knowing what I will pay from the beginning. As I own an SX-101A and
a 75S-1, I'm not especially interested in an SX-115, mint or
otherwise. Why is an SX-115 $5,000 (or more) and a 75S-1 is
$250-300?

Using your example, I would "know" that the right price is $500

($500 is not the right price for an SX-115 but lets go with your
numbers and your example.)


If I really, really wanted that one, I would bid $687.

Scenario 1 -

******Snip*****

All very well and good except for one thing--what is the rest of the bidding
world doing while all your listed shenninagians are going on????

Brian Goldsmith.