Be Real Careful of the Buyer
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As of Dec 9, 2013: ONLY BUYERS AND SELLERS directly involved with a transaction can post here. Do not post replies in any topic if you are not the buyer or seller in the transaction being discussed! If you believe you can help the buyer or seller, please use the Private Message system to communicate with them. NOTE: if you have been scammed by someone pretending to be a ham, please post in the Scammer Reports forum instead. See viewtopic.php?f=2&t=136 for additional rules.
As of Dec 9, 2013: ONLY BUYERS AND SELLERS directly involved with a transaction can post here. Do not post replies in any topic if you are not the buyer or seller in the transaction being discussed! If you believe you can help the buyer or seller, please use the Private Message system to communicate with them. NOTE: if you have been scammed by someone pretending to be a ham, please post in the Scammer Reports forum instead. See viewtopic.php?f=2&t=136 for additional rules.
Be Real Careful of the Buyer
For the better part of my 55 years of being an active ham and the hundreds of pieces of equipment I've have sold or traded, I never have been stiffed by a Ham. I look up a Buyer in the Callsign Lookup and see if he exists. I know enough about call signs and regions to see something bogus. Recently I got hit with a phishing trip by Tim Crawford. When I dismissed that Buyer, I got another with a ham call. He called my Heath collection "stuff." Payment was delayed by the "hospital stay" y'all warned me about. The call is not in the callsign data base. Last the bogus callsign was a W6F--. W6F callsigns were not reissued. My Elmer was W6FHN and he passed 25 years ago. I got a real education reading this forum. Thanks to everyone. And I will continue to give deference to real, licensed Hams. Tim Crawford need not apply. Hope these comments help someone else. Bob K6GKU