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Registered Member #193
Joined: Fri Feb 17 2006, 07:04AM
Location: sheffield
Posts: 1022
I was less than impressed with someone who sold me a prism labelled as being optical glass. Well it might have been, in between the striae and bubbles but it wasn't any real use. However it would have been another waste of money to send it back since he wouldn't accept that he had lied in the description. Anyone want a small paperweight?
Registered Member #902
Joined: Sun Jul 15 2007, 08:17PM
Location: North Texas
Posts: 1040
Back when I did some glass blowing, I ordered some tubing off of eBay. It arrives in a cardboard tube broken. The carboard tube was significantly wider than the glass tubing, and the seller defended himself saying he packed it with paper... He wrapped the paper smoothly, and in just two layers, around the tube. No padding to fill the space between the walls.
Registered Member #96
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
Location: CI, Earth
Posts: 4061
Another HK seller, eventually refunded the payments but no explanation or even email as to what went wrong. I don't understand why he refused to send them, when he sends to Europe quite happily.
Registered Member #135
Joined: Sat Feb 11 2006, 12:06AM
Location: Anywhere is fine
Posts: 1735
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Don't ever deal with this guy!
I bought a Fluke 8920A True RMS meter, 20Hz to 20MHz, 1mV to 700V. Fantastic meter to have around, very expensive to buy at times!
He gave me a full refund and return on the unit, which he sold to me, damaged.
I received the unit fine, it was packed well. But when I tested it with my signal generator, the meter was off by 30 dBm! I tried auto-ranging, and it was still off by 30 dBm on the high ranges. Any range at -30dBm or lower worked fine, but the important part of the meter, the high ranges were shot.
I contacted the seller, and his technician which just performed the full calibration on the unit (don't know how), insisted that you have to set the reference on the unit before you can perform a measurement, and that I was using the instrument improperly.
Knowing full-well what "auto ranging" is, and that I didn't break the thing, I asked them how to go forward. They told me that if I felt comfortable in attempting to repair the unit, I could do so. They were hanging a carrot out there and hoping that I would go for it.
Their policy specifically states there can be no returns for items with broken seals. They were attempting to "stick" me with the broken unit.
I decided to return the unit and send it back sealed. That way, I would get some money back.
He gave me a full refund including my shipping cost, which I didn't expect, but he was really trying to screw me out of my money. I think he realized he should stop toying with me after I started returning emails to him with my Northrop Grumman email address.
But don't ever buy from this guy. There is no way I could have damaged the volt meter, it can handle up to 700V RMS. That's 10KW of RF energy. It was broken when he sold it and he knew it.
And if you're going to buy a Fluke 8920A, make sure you get a working one, because when they break down, they're impossible to fix, and I know that for a fact, I have tried to repair one, and even bought factory replacement FETS. They are damn hard to fix.
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Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 04:31AM
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 638
Bought a variable ND filter for my camera (2 porarizers that spin relative to each other) for 25$. 3 days after the purchase they said that by accident they didn't have any in stock and then re-listed the same item for 120$ the same day.
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Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
Location: CI, Earth
Posts: 4061
Interesting. I've heard of fake meters being sold before, which appear to be a more expensive make ie Fluke but are actually just cheap junk inside. The other dastardly trick they use is to weight the unit down with lead to make it feel expensively heavy, and use cheap cables that fail internally when used lightly.
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