Re: New Variac (and lots of ?'s)

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Original poster: "Crow Leader by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>

There are horror stories with anything, and writing off ebay is not quite
fair. If you can spot the shifty people you will have no problem. If you
have no clue as to who seems shady, maybe ebay is not for you. I've been
buying stuff through the internet since about 1995. I was scammed once
(refurbished monitor sold as new). Being angry and vengeful they quickly
paid me to just go away and all was well.

There are tons of great deals on ebay from honest vendors. I'd still be wary
of any high voltage item sold with "tesla" in the description though.

KEN

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Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: New Variac (and lots of ?'s)


> Original poster: "Marry Krutsch by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <u236-at-earthlink-dot-net>
>
> Hi Dan, All.
>
> That's what I figured, but I guess that's par for the course for me.  I
> don't think I've EVER gotten a good deal on anything that works right
> from anyone.  Plus, with this unit, the main problems were not visible
> without some disassembly, so neither the sales guy (who really is a nice
> guy), nor I knew of them.  The thing APPEARED to be in OK condition.
>
> With regard to ebay, I'm glad you and others have had success there,
> but I've heard far too many ebay horror stories from far too many people
> to EVER buy anything from there.  C and H Sales has things on ebay, and
> I've been told by the sales guys that they've had trouble with buyers
> not paying, and have had to file legal action, etc.  Even if ebay
> weren't so fraught with uncertainty, I'm leary of trusting my money to
> someone with no accountability to me.  I know there are legal contracts
> binding both buyer and seller in an auction, but from what I've heard,
> these are only "suggestions" :-\.
>
> On the bright side, I have a working (for now) variac, and am therefor
> one step closer to being able to run my big MOT power supply.  I can now
> completely and smoothly control my quad-copier xfmr PSU, which is a
> great, rock-solid unit.  It's good for 4 kVA, and doesn't even warm up
> much (it's current limited).
>
> I didn't mean for this to be a rant against ebay.  I just wanted to
> state why I appear to like getting ripped off, and why I intentionally
> pass up great deals on ebay.  Thanks for being honest with me ;-)).
>
> Now eyeing my "new" variac with disgust,
> Winston K.
>
> Tesla list wrote:
> >
> > Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>
> >
> > Hate to say it, but you got ripped off.  You should have tried ebay.  I
just
> > bought (2) 240VAC, 40A variacs off the site in the past two weeks for
only
> > $30.00 each. Plus for $190 i would expect at least a variac in good
> > condition in which i didn't have to make any changes to.
> >
> > Dan
> >
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