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I will remove or modify this posting if this individual comes forward and reconciles the issue.
PEOPLE do not deal with this guy. Since August 2010 he refuse to respond my emails after he sold me a BAD Bird meter pep kit. Here copy of the ad:
BIRD 43 - REAL PEAK KIT
I have for sale one new peak kit for a bird 43 meter - this is the real BIRD kit, not a cheaper knock off - the real peak reading upgrade for you Bird 43, brand new!
Now, the best part, $125 ships it to your door!
Thats $50 less than the lowest price on ebay for the REAL DEAL!
Don't settle for a knock off, you won't be happy, get the real peak Kit! A real BIRD brand peak reading kit for your REAL BIRD 43 meter!
USA only please!
Listing #844419 - Submitted on 08/04/10 by Callsign K9RLB,
The Peak Kit came in NOT WORKING CONDITION, in old plastic bag. Nothing new. I sent a lot of emails to this guy, but he never respond. In the last email that I sent him I requested my money back, and after a year I still waiting. Buyers BEWARE with this person. Do not buy from this guy because is not honest. Is really easy to get money from another ham sending junk! BEWARE HAMS!
Mr. ROBERT L BOWMAN, if you don't want to see this ugly feedback every month for the rest of your life just send me back my $125.
WOW WOW WOW … Finally….finally K9RLB responds to something. A year sir, it has taken you a year to come out and respond anything about the pep kit bird. It truly brings me joy to find out that you have responded to one of my post. I notice you have come with defense mechanisms to sway the situation in your favor, though you might have your defensive tools, I too have my own sir.
First of all, it’s necessary that I mention that the problem that I had with the beam which I was selling here in QTH is an entirely different issue than yours. In that situation there was no money involved, because that gentleman NEVER sent me money. I had said that the sale was local and by trying to be a good person with that gentleman I had the problem. I never got the opportunity to go to the post office and get a price for the shipping and I ended up selling the antenna one or two years later to a local HAM. Very different to our problem …I lost $125.00 with you sir.
There are a lot of questions that you would have to answer. First of all, I don’t care if you have sold 200, 300 or 500. The one that I received NEVER worked. You must be truly out of your mind if you think that a year after I purchased that kit it’s should be “new”. It was “new” when I sent you the first group of 10 e-mails three days after I received that piece of junk. That’s a good thing ask about.
How come you never responded to ANY of my emails? It’s impossible for me to send something back that I had purchased from another HAM with out first communicating the problem/issue that I had with it. I find it illogical to think any other way. I sell on EBay, and if there’s one thing that I must keep in mind as a responsible seller is to respond to the inquiries of my clients that I get their emails. You must have read the countless emails I sent you in the course of a year. Did you read my first email? I didn’t ask for my money back, I asked you for HELP. I asked you several times, “PLEASE HELP ME”; but you never responded. So I am the problem? You don’t deserve to be HAM. All I did was ask for help when I saw the kit did not work.
But now you accuse me of breaking it, that I damaged it, that I was the problem. In case you don’t remember, you sold me model 4300-405. There is no way to make a mistake when installing it. It has one position; put it inside the Bird 43. I sent you a number of emails asking for your assistance, but you never responded. So after a couple of weeks of having received your merchandise I asked for my money back. When a salesman fails with their merchandise the right thing to do is to respond like a business man, something you did not do.
You are very much aware that this is not the first time I post here on QTH. There have been several and you have never come back and responded to me. Look for the first one; I asked about you, if you were alive, if you were a good HAM, but I never received a response and since you never responded to my emails you forced me to have to do this. I even searched for you on the silent Key list for months. Know I can see you are very much alive.
I still can’t understand how someone sells merchandise receives an email regarding that same merchandise and never responds?
This is the first time that you respond, you don’t respond to any of my emails, but now you come to “defend” yourself and still can’t bring a serious response to a mans legitimate question. What can one think about an individual that does not show his face or give a solution to his clients’ problems? The first thing that comes to mind is that this is the kind of individual that dedicates his time and energy to steal from those that work an honest job. If those where your intentions or not, only you know that, but your grave mistake was never taking the time to respond to my emails.
I have posted about this issue 4 or 5 times and now it’s when you respond. I can only imagine that it was the end of my post, which said every time you post something to sell here on QTH I will repost this. To answer your comment, I don’t do it because it makes me feel good or because I want to cause you harm, because I don’t know you. I do it to protect others so they don’t have to experience the same deceitfulness that I experienced from you, so that they are careful in sending money to an unknown person. Put yourself in my shoes, what would you have thought had you been in my situation? I thought you where a crook, that’s what I thought. Had you responded to my question, established communication things might have been different.
Please don’t think I’m going to waste my life away here by posting this on QTH once a month. A simple copy and paste will do, it takes me 45 seconds. This will protect the money of many HAM that still belief in honesty and trust, but many times are tricked by people like you.
Just be honest and present me with a good solution to the problem. You say you can’t send me my money back because the kit is not new anymore, but whose fault is that? We wouldn’t have this issue had you responded to my emails promptly or AT ALL. Give me a solution, something that says you are an honest person. Let’s get back to dealing with this issue in private through or personal emails, if you do and we come to an agreement I give you my word that I will make a post that states that you fixed the situation, and we never have to talk about it again nor will I mention you again.
"Please don’t think I’m going to waste my life away here by posting this on QTH once a month. A simple copy and paste will do, it takes me 45 seconds. This will protect the money of many HAM that still belief in honesty and trust, but many times are tricked by people like you"
Why so infrequently? Why not daily, or at least weekly?
So please, keep posting - I have time So all Hams can figure out you're not one to deal with - demanding refund without returning item....funny - hopefully when you reply to an ad, for their sake - they'll send it to their trash bin.
Don't forget Eham - if you're going to trash talk on QTH and QRZ, you'd may as well spend time advertising your propaganda on Eham, too! If I think of any you may have missed, I'll be sure to let you know. They need to know about you "I keep item and want a refund" way of doing things.
A lot of BLA BLA BLA BLA .... answer my question. How come you never responded to ANY of my emails? All the email that I sent to you three days after I received the pep kit.
kp4bpr wrote:A lot of BLA BLA BLA BLA .... answer my question. How come you never responded to ANY of my emails? All the email that I sent to you three days after I received the pep kit.
I have no email, no returned item, just someone I do not know deanding money. Try this, order something online, say, from WalMart. Next, you find it doesn't work. Next, without returning item, several months later demand money form them - see how it goes. It will probably be a familiar feeling.
You don’t want to respond my question! How come you never responded ANY of my emails? At the time that I sent to you the first group of e-mails (three days after I received the bird kit) was "new", but you never answered. Why? Forget the $125, they’re yours, you need the money more than me; you “won” that money. From the very beginning I knew that you never would send me the money. I just want an explanation, How come you never responded ANY of my emails that I sent to you in the past year?How come you never responded to your customer? It’s impossible for me to send something back that I had purchased from another HAM with out first communicating the problem or issue that I had with it. I find it ILLOGICAL.
You are the only person that works this way.
So all Hams can figure out you're not one to deal with - demanding refund without returning item....funny - hopefully when you reply to an ad, for their sake - they'll send it to their trash bin.