Leonard,

I don't consider myself a OM moneybag but he had an item that looked
flawless. He had a steep price on it but as with many things, you get what
you usually pay for. I drove to his house in Sadieville, didn't want to
scratch it, and up the hill and loaded the item into my truck. While I was
there, being charmed, I asked him to fire the amp up and he replied that he
didn't have 220 in his house to do that. I took him at his word .. he seemed
nice enough. While there, he showed me how he could photograph something to
hide it's flaws .. clue #1 missed! On the way home it hit me that he had
central air running in his house! I broke into a cold sweat realizing that
his not having 220 at the house, was an outright lie. When I got home I
fired it up .. no HV .. despite his assurance that he had seen HV on the
meter. New transformer, open secondary, new bridge diodes, one section dead
short, and I finally saw HV. The new tubes that he claimed were included put
out about 800 watts tops. New finals too. Finally an amp that worked the way
he originally said it would. You do the math!

I have watched his auctions also and he has had some nice looking gear but I
remember that nice looking amp! Many people got good deals and those are the
ones who poopoo what is being said here, those who are naive enough to
believe that all deals with him were good ones or guys like me are dumb.
Those who believe that it's the buyer or Ebay that's the problem are
ignorant. I still have all of the pictures that he sent and all of his
email, full of deception and outright lies. In fact, one picture shows one
of the leads from the HV transformer secondary tucked behind the frame of
the transformer and not connected to the bridge but when you have never seen
one of these beasts before you don't know.

I received an email for a guy who read a previous post on Radio-Mart. The
poor guy was totally distressed because Martyn was on his tail threatening
him etc with totally rediculous stuff, law suits, police action, and from
what I was seeing it was just more Radio-Mart garbage. Martyn has a way of
being very nasty once the money is in his hand, not Mr. Nice Guy anymore.

Let's hope that either the people get wise to him or he gets shut down and
sent back to the UK.

And to Martyn .. if you read this .. have a nice day!



"Leonard Martin" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"LHPB" wrote:


This is interesting indeed. I'm an ebay fan, subset: watcher of old
radio auctions. For a long time radio-mart seemed to do really well
selling to the moneyed old hams who shovel $$ out the door like mad
buying old radios from their youth. Then one day I bought an S-meter
from him and it proved to be flawed. My admiration went away, but I
still followed his auctions with interest. All his radios seemed to look
so good! and the moneybags hams trusted him!

Suddenly, a few months ago, he was kicked off ebay...and only now am I
getting my curiosty satisfied about the likely reason. I will put
gottahaveit1995 on my "favorite" sellers list right away.

The saga continues.

Leonard

--
"Everything that rises must converge"
--Flannery O'Connor

thanks for sharing this very telling story

EVERYONE BEWARE OF GOTTAHAVEIT1995 you don't know what you will get !!!


"LHPB" wrote in message ...
Leonard,

I don't consider myself a OM moneybag but he had an item that looked
flawless. He had a steep price on it but as with many things, you get what
you usually pay for. I drove to his house in Sadieville, didn't want to
scratch it, and up the hill and loaded the item into my truck. While I was
there, being charmed, I asked him to fire the amp up and he replied that he
didn't have 220 in his house to do that. I took him at his word .. he seemed
nice enough. While there, he showed me how he could photograph something to
hide it's flaws .. clue #1 missed! On the way home it hit me that he had
central air running in his house! I broke into a cold sweat realizing that
his not having 220 at the house, was an outright lie. When I got home I
fired it up .. no HV .. despite his assurance that he had seen HV on the
meter. New transformer, open secondary, new bridge diodes, one section dead
short, and I finally saw HV. The new tubes that he claimed were included put
out about 800 watts tops. New finals too. Finally an amp that worked the way
he originally said it would. You do the math!

I have watched his auctions also and he has had some nice looking gear but I
remember that nice looking amp! Many people got good deals and those are the
ones who poopoo what is being said here, those who are naive enough to
believe that all deals with him were good ones or guys like me are dumb.
Those who believe that it's the buyer or Ebay that's the problem are
ignorant. I still have all of the pictures that he sent and all of his
email, full of deception and outright lies. In fact, one picture shows one
of the leads from the HV transformer secondary tucked behind the frame of
the transformer and not connected to the bridge but when you have never seen
one of these beasts before you don't know.

I received an email for a guy who read a previous post on Radio-Mart. The
poor guy was totally distressed because Martyn was on his tail threatening
him etc with totally rediculous stuff, law suits, police action, and from
what I was seeing it was just more Radio-Mart garbage. Martyn has a way of
being very nasty once the money is in his hand, not Mr. Nice Guy anymore.

Let's hope that either the people get wise to him or he gets shut down and
sent back to the UK.

And to Martyn .. if you read this .. have a nice day!



"Leonard Martin" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"LHPB" wrote:


This is interesting indeed. I'm an ebay fan, subset: watcher of old
radio auctions. For a long time radio-mart seemed to do really well
selling to the moneyed old hams who shovel $$ out the door like mad
buying old radios from their youth. Then one day I bought an S-meter
from him and it proved to be flawed. My admiration went away, but I
still followed his auctions with interest. All his radios seemed to look
so good! and the moneybags hams trusted him!

Suddenly, a few months ago, he was kicked off ebay...and only now am I
getting my curiosty satisfied about the likely reason. I will put
gottahaveit1995 on my "favorite" sellers list right away.

The saga continues.

Leonard

--
"Everything that rises must converge"
--Flannery O'Connor

I believe radio-mart is still on ebay selling under this name, Maybe its
just radiomart without the slash, anyway, if he is ripping people off, you
should bring it to ebays attention.......
"Mark S. Holden" wrote in message
...
Gary wrote:

(the captain) wrote in message
. com...

the seller radio-mart who had several of his accounts suspended a
while back is currently selling under the name gottahaveit1995
his auctions are full of lies. buy at great risk to finances

I am not sure how he got one of his accounts re-activated


First, I think you should have PROOF before making accusations.
Second, gottahaveit1995 has been a member of eBay since June 2003 and
has 286 feedback with only 3 negatives. You just MIGHT be mistaken.

Third, why post this on this forum? Either turn the person in to eBay
(if you have proof), or mind your own business.


There are quite a few reasons to believe they're the same person - but
the most compelling is Radio-mart often sold radios gottahaveit1995
bought a couple of weeks earlier.

gottahaveit1995 first tried selling right after radio-mart was naru'd.
He was promptly naru'd.

I just looked at gottahaveit1995's feedback and there are no buyer's
comments at all. Just ones from people who sold to him, not bought from him.
"the captain" wrote in message
om...
the seller radio-mart who had several of his accounts suspended a
while back is currently selling under the name gottahaveit1995
his auctions are full of lies. buy at great risk to finances

I am not sure how he got one of his accounts re-activated

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 23:26:53 GMT, "Kenn" wrote:

I just looked at gottahaveit1995's feedback and there are no buyer's
comments at all. Just ones from people who sold to him, not bought from him.
"the captain" wrote in message
. com...
the seller radio-mart who had several of his accounts suspended a
while back is currently selling under the name gottahaveit1995
his auctions are full of lies. buy at great risk to finances

I am not sure how he got one of his accounts re-activated

gottahaveit1995 Not a registered user ( per e-bay pages)

radio-mart is deceptive, and a hustler. never buy from him. he also
used ham calls illegally on 2 meters. .
I know, I was a victim of his "glorious ands and pictures "on e-bay
and got one of his "mint" radios"- ho-ho.
No way he acknowledges e-mail or calls on complaints, then he flames
you as the problem on feed-back.

and your point ? you didn't read the post carefully

you need to look up the account called radio-mart


"Kenn" wrote in message news:Z4G8d.311932$mD.73730@attbi_s02...
I just looked at gottahaveit1995's feedback and there are no buyer's
comments at all. Just ones from people who sold to him, not bought from him.
"the captain" wrote in message
om...
the seller radio-mart who had several of his accounts suspended a
while back is currently selling under the name gottahaveit1995
his auctions are full of lies. buy at great risk to finances

I am not sure how he got one of his accounts re-activated

On 6 Oct 2004 12:14:39 -0700, (the captain) wrote:

and your point ? you didn't read the post carefully

Captain
I do not have a point. Just wanted to advise that:
1. both sellers mentioned are not registered on e-bay ,per my check
of e-bay They are not eligible to be active..
2. Give new info that radio-mart pirates ham radio non-used calls on
2 meters Illegal and subject to fine by FCC. He is not a legally
registered Ham.
3. Confirm that radio-mart, when active on e-bay, is bad news for any
buyer, from personal experience.

Yep, here's a current ad by Radio-Mart:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...77261 49&rd=1





(the captain) wrote in message

om...
and your point ? you didn't read the post carefully

you need to look up the account called radio-mart


"Kenn" wrote in message news:Z4G8d.311932$mD.73730@attbi_s02...
I just looked at gottahaveit1995's feedback and there are no buyer's
comments at all. Just ones from people who sold to him, not bought from him.
"the captain" wrote in message
om...
the seller radio-mart who had several of his accounts suspended a
while back is currently selling under the name gottahaveit1995
his auctions are full of lies. buy at great risk to finances

I am not sure how he got one of his accounts re-activated

I say everyone send him a harassing email for each radio he puts on, I have
done this for some time now.

"Steve" wrote in message
m...
Yep, here's a current ad by Radio-Mart:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...77261 49&rd=1





(the captain) wrote in message

om...
and your point ? you didn't read the post carefully

you need to look up the account called radio-mart


"Kenn" wrote in message
news:Z4G8d.311932$mD.73730@attbi_s02...
I just looked at gottahaveit1995's feedback and there are no buyer's
comments at all. Just ones from people who sold to him, not bought from
him.
"the captain" wrote in message
om...
the seller radio-mart who had several of his accounts suspended a
while back is currently selling under the name gottahaveit1995
his auctions are full of lies. buy at great risk to finances

I am not sure how he got one of his accounts re-activated

Funny how he's always advertising

Radio Mart Does it again, bringing you the very best in Ham Radio
equipment to e-Bay!!!

I like how everything he sales is so perfect

quote
---
I cannot fault the receiver in any way, it appears to be perfect, all
switches and knobs are fully functional and precise and the tuning as
expected is smooth.
All lamps function as does the s-meter and I cannot fault it in any
way.
Cosmetically it is excellent with virtually no marks on it anywhere;
the finish is all original and clean.
---
end quote


On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:19:29 -0500, " Radio Flyer"
wrote:

I say everyone send him a harassing email for each radio he puts on, I have
done this for some time now.

"Steve" wrote in message
om...
Yep, here's a current ad by Radio-Mart:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...77261 49&rd=1





(the captain) wrote in message

om...
and your point ? you didn't read the post carefully

you need to look up the account called radio-mart


"Kenn" wrote in message
news:Z4G8d.311932$mD.73730@attbi_s02...
I just looked at gottahaveit1995's feedback and there are no buyer's
comments at all. Just ones from people who sold to him, not bought from
him.
"the captain" wrote in message
om...
the seller radio-mart who had several of his accounts suspended a
while back is currently selling under the name gottahaveit1995
his auctions are full of lies. buy at great risk to finances

I am not sure how he got one of his accounts re-activated