Personally, I think everyone is making much ado over nothing. If you're
really an interested buyer, you would have sent the seller an e-mail asking
some key questions like what serial number is it, when did he buy it, when
was the last time it was on the air, and additional (actual) pics available
, etc..... Maybe even ask if a sked is possible to hear it.
The auction is still active, just type the item number ( 5705730232 ) in the
search field and it comes right up. I just did and it appeared as an active
auction with 6 days and 2 hours remaining.
A good way to protect your purchase since he is offering PayPal is to fund
your PayPal payment with a credit card so you get buyer protection via your
credit card issuer, If anything turns out not to be legitimate, you're
covered. Or if you're that skeptical altogether, just don't bid.
Dennis.
----- Original Message -----
From: <ac5e@comcast.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 2:58 PM
Subject: [TenTec] curiouser and curiouser
>
> The saga of the fishy Jupiter gets more and more curious. Being even more
inquisitive than Kritter the ham shack cat I did the following.....
>
> First, manually cleaned my internet cache.
>
> Tried the link again with negative results. Recleaned cache.
>
> Went to E-bay and logged in.
>
> Went to ham radio, trancievers, other; search "jupiter," nil, de nada,
zip.
>
> Went to trancievers, search "jupiter," "jup," ten-tec, tentec, ten, nil.
>
> Went to "ham radio" search "jupiter," nil.
>
> Went to ham,cb,etc., search, nil
>
> Went to consumer electronics, search jupiter, return - two items not
Amateur Radio related.
>
> Went to browse, search jupiter, returned about twenty pages of non-ham
related items, no Ten Tec.
>
> Logged off E-bay.
>
> Cut and pasted the url, got an "invalid" page. Clicked on search on that
page, manually entered the number and got the fishy offer of a Jupiter.
Noted that it's supposed to be in the "trancievers,other" category I just
left. Reread the description, was as I remembered from last night.
>
> It reminded me then and now of some of the deals I saw go down in my
mis-spent youth. Too good to be true - so it almost certainly isn't. And it
does not come up for me on the Ebay.com site.
>
> So it's still what Shorty Breck succintly called a "reptile in the
woodpile." Although the small one said it with a Berliner accent he
suddenly lost December 7, 1942. About twenty minutes before the draft board
turned him down and two hours before he hired on with Westinghouse.
>
> 73 Pete Allen AC5E
> --
> Never squat with your spurs on
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