I'm not pointing at any other statements in this thread other than LOU's
disappointment. This is the major problem with a forum such as this.
EVERYBODY has the same level of authority. Meaning JOE 5 minutes has the
same opinion "weight" to the new question asker as somebody who has been
building for 40 years.
Also the guy who has been building 813's, 811A's and 807's for 40 years has
the same "knowledge weight" as someone who has been building 3CX10000's for
10.
Obviously the experience levels are no where near the same.
I would say when it comes to building an amplifier project it is nice to get
opinions, however careful consideration needs to be placed on each
contributor's advice. Some advice is a 100 and many aren't worth the pixels
they are viewed on. Quite often it's tough to figure out which is which.
Even some days the knowledgeable guys slip up and don't hand out their
really good advice either. Sometimes it just depends on their mood.
Like today (yesterday now) was another good day to say, "I hate ham
radio..."
Unfortunately we can't shoot the messenger and it falls on each individual
to sort through the real knowledge / experience and the knowledgeable
sounding.
(then draw a bead on the offender and pull the trigger.)
BOB DD
-----Original Message-----
From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Gudguyham@aol.com
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 2:09 AM
To: david.kirkby@onetel.net; k7rdx@charter.net
Cc: amps@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] EIMAC (8877 TYPE) TUBES FOR SALE
In a message dated 1/19/2007 5:54:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
david.kirkby@onetel.net writes:
I had a similar thing happen on eBay. An oscillator was advertised an an
HP 10811A, which is what I wanted. I won the auction.
The seller then offered me some other model instead if i wanted it. So I
checked the specs of that model and found it was a bit poorer on some
specs. So I said I wanted the 10811A I won the auction for.
Sounds like the old fashion "bait and switch" to me. When accurate
model/part numbers are given out in a description, certainly this would not
be an
issue if something else was not offered. In my case I offered what I was
selling simply stating it could be used in place of a 3CX1500A7. The 3/8"
difference may or may not be a problem, but some technicality discussion
here turned
off a buyer who had committed to buy the tubes which were of no consequence
to the him "in fact". Naturally I was upset about that but I suppose it
would
be wrong to admonish someone for nixing a deal so I won't say anything.
Fortunately someone else came along a took advantage. But as "this" story
goes
on the e-bay thing, yes, I would be upset also. Lou
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