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Re: [TenTec] weasels

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] weasels
From: "W.D. (Doc) Lindsey" <dock0evz@earthlink.net>
Reply-to: dock0evz@earthlink.net,Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:27:14 -0700
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Allan

If you happen to receive this note, could you please write me directly?  I
seem to have lost your e-mail address.  If anyone  else knows Allan's e-mail
address, please send it to me, thanks.

73,
--Doc/K0EVZ

> [Original Message]:
> From: Allan Taylor <k7gt.cw@gmail.com>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Date: 3/15/2007 10:07:45 PM
> Subject: [TenTec] weasels
>
> Scenario:
>
> A ham purchases a used OmniVI with essentially no filters in it. He
> has it upgraded to
> OmniVI+ (a.k.a. option 3) (was $275, by the way). He acquires all the
> filters one at a time
> and ends up with a fully set up VI. Time to sell comes along. He pulls
> out the filters, which
> he acquired singly and after originally acquiring the radio and sells
> them at a fair price, sells
> the radio at a low price (essentially eating the option 3 upgrade
> expense), sells also
> the 705 mike he acquired singly. Then you guys call him a weasel
> although he is only
> reversing the process done in acquiring the gear, attempting to merely
> recoup a portion
> of his expense (investment??) in the rig. Net profit in the overall
> transactions  will be
> about -40%.
>
> Let's get real here, fellows. Either you want to buy the radio as
> equipped or you don't.
> Either you want to buy the filters as advertised or you don't. Just
> don't call a fellow ham
> a weasel because he opts to sell the filters separately for reasons of
> his own. The radios
> came 'bare naked' from Sevierville, after all.
>
> By the way, if someone wants to 'weasel' and sell me either a 30m or 20m
module
> for a Scout, I would be much obliged!
>
>
> 73
>
> Allan K7GT
>
> SW Oregon
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