Am thinking that it's just people like me who innocently went internet surfing for a backup AM DX radio recently. Anyone else here being inundated by ads and pictures of everything from refitted HQ Super-Pro 600's to crystal kits and every bloody form of radio ever manufactured in between?
A dozen times a day these things pop up like weed. There are even several I used to own, like barbershop Zeniths with tubes and Lafayette 600's that are 55 years old.
'Plugged-in' ..... 'Works', .... 'previously owned' ..... 'Clean' .... free shipping' : Yeah, right. One eBay purveyor with a 5 1/2-star rating and a 99.6% approval trophy is either going to shape up or is fated to get a napalming performance critique from me for the way he's handled matters -- and soon.
Good buddy of mine has told of a few other recent problems and dissatisfactions he's seen eroding eBay -- and he is nowhere into radio and DX the way we are.
For instance: What looks like a new Eton 'field radio' pops up nowadays more often than my meds do. Heck -- ANY portable can be called a 'field radio'. I doubt it's intended to be anything special, yet someone wants $248 for one and promotes it as if it's a Potomac. Is it only a decent rig worth maybe $79? Since I bought a Grundig S 450 'field radio' that was $25 (from when Radio Shack was going belly up) and it was a glorified POS that basically committed plastic suicide within a few months, I've been more skeptical than ever about ANY product, old or new.
Thanx for the attention for the rant.
A dozen times a day these things pop up like weed. There are even several I used to own, like barbershop Zeniths with tubes and Lafayette 600's that are 55 years old.
'Plugged-in' ..... 'Works', .... 'previously owned' ..... 'Clean' .... free shipping' : Yeah, right. One eBay purveyor with a 5 1/2-star rating and a 99.6% approval trophy is either going to shape up or is fated to get a napalming performance critique from me for the way he's handled matters -- and soon.
Good buddy of mine has told of a few other recent problems and dissatisfactions he's seen eroding eBay -- and he is nowhere into radio and DX the way we are.
For instance: What looks like a new Eton 'field radio' pops up nowadays more often than my meds do. Heck -- ANY portable can be called a 'field radio'. I doubt it's intended to be anything special, yet someone wants $248 for one and promotes it as if it's a Potomac. Is it only a decent rig worth maybe $79? Since I bought a Grundig S 450 'field radio' that was $25 (from when Radio Shack was going belly up) and it was a glorified POS that basically committed plastic suicide within a few months, I've been more skeptical than ever about ANY product, old or new.
Thanx for the attention for the rant.