I Would like to warn all of you about a Russian company that has $1800.00
of my money and has yet to send me the sockets I ordered 6 months ago.
The name of the company is VECTOR ELECTRONICS, and their web site is
http://www.vectorelec1.narod.ru/
I had been ordering the SK1A Svetlana tube sockets from this company, and had
received a couple of orders from them with no problem. But, I placed the last
order with them about 6 months ago and still no sockets. Just about all Russian
companies require you pay them in advance via direct bank deposit which was the
case with Vector. I sent them the $1800.00 as requested to their bank account
and they in turn said they would ship my tubes in a couple of weeks.
I buy from other European tube suppliers, and normally it only takes from 2 to
4 weeks for an order to reach me once I send payment.
I waited about a month before I contacted them about not having received my
sockets, they gave me one excuse after another, but since they had always
delivered in the past, I thought i was still ok.
After a couple of months I asked them again where my sockets were.....they
assured me they had been shipped and I should receive them any day....guess
what....they never did come.
No use to bore you with all the correspondence I sent to them, let's just
suffice it to say. I have been hot and heavy after my sockets.
They do not return my phone calls, or my emails and faxes, so I guess I am just
screwed!
For those of you who dont know me, I am a ham, and I sell Russian tubes and
sockets on my web site, and have several commercial accounts, but my main
customers are hams.
A lick like this is very hard for a small outfit like mine to recover from, but
I hope to hang in as long as I can.
I just wanted to make the rest of you aware of these people.
73
Tom..............w4th..........Tom's Tubes
Tom's Tubes: Your Russian Tube Connection. Specializing in Amateur Radio
Amplifier Tubes & Sockets. http://www.tomstubes.com
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