[time-nuts] ebay warning

[Bob Camp]

Hi

I've often wondered if there are actually more than two people selling all
of the FE's being auctioned. There's not much of a way to tell. I've had
orders from various sellers come in combined for shipping over the years.

I've had an "interesting" time with one order from Nichegeek. It took a few
more tries than normal to get everything shipped ... Not totally out of the
ordinary for the e place, but still interesting. They all came in ok and
worked reasonably well. One unit took a while to lock the first time, but
it's locked up ok since then.

I have had much better luck with the FE's mounted on the PC boards in terms
of damage than with "loose" parts. I've had one of the recent FE's show up
with a bent corner and a couple of the earlier (three years back) version
show up with the same sort of cosmetic damage. The PC board acts as a pretty
good shipping protector.

Bottom line is still - don't spend more than you can afford to loose. Push
back early if something comes in that's not right. 

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of cfo
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 4:45 AM
To: time-nuts at febo.com
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] ebay warning

On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:18:26 -0700, Dave hartzell wrote:

> I received a few "used" units, and one was bad.  I contacted nichegeek
> via eBay with the issue and symptoms, and they are sending me a
> replacement.  Assuming it comes half as fast as the original shipment,
> and it works, my transaction will still be a positive one.
> 

I just got 10 units from tool-nerd (im 95% sure (s)he's also nichegeek) , 
as tool-nerd told me that they hadn't got anymore Morion's , but pointed 
me (url) at a Efratom replaement in the nichegeek shop. 


All worked ok , and got lock within a few minutes.
One had a bad dent near the RB lamp but it, was functioning fine.

I asked for DHL shipping (some sellers never ansvered my DHL question) , 
and had the units 3 work-days after ordering.

All in all a nice experience , (but i still see Morions in their shop , 
at a 10$ higher price) , i might have been had there.

CFO



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