Best Place to Sell Equipment?
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I am looking to sell some of my Yaesu Radios in order to purchase a K3s. What are good reliable places to
sell my radios? (FT-950 and FT-857D). I am trying to avoid ebay. I live in New York City, Manhattan. Jose N2LRB [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Hi Jose!
FWIW, I've never had a problem with E-Bay or PayPal, and I have a 100% rating for over 200 transactions. It's the only place I use. 73 Ken - K0PP ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Jose,
I have always used KA9FOX's classifieds site. Sold and bought many radios from his listings for many years. 100% satisfied. http://swap.qth.com/index.php GL Gene, N9TF K3S 10057 P3 -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Jose Rivera Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 6:33 AM To: [hidden email] Subject: [Elecraft] Best Place to Sell Equipment? I am looking to sell some of my Yaesu Radios in order to purchase a K3s. What are good reliable places to sell my radios? (FT-950 and FT-857D). I am trying to avoid ebay. I live in New York City, Manhattan. Jose N2LRB [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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On Thu,2/25/2016 4:32 AM, Jose Rivera wrote:
> I am looking to sell some of my Yaesu Radios in order to purchase a K3s. What are good reliable places to sell my radios? (FT-950 and FT-857D). I've successfully used eham classified for many years. As with any public site like this there are scams. Read the advice on the site and use common sense. I specify in my ads that I will sell only to a US licensed ham for shipment to his FCC address. That makes it awfully hard for scammers, and I don't have to deal with shipping out of the country to an address I can't document. 73, Jim K9YC ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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I've done business on eBay, eham.net classifieds, and swap.qth.com boards.
All have yielded acceptable results. I've never been burned at any of them as a seller. I recently sold my K3 on eBay, but would've preferred to sell it on eham.net or swap.qth.com. eBay, as you know, takes about 15% off the top (including the required use of PayPal). So, figure on that... The fellow who bought my K3 on eBay could've received a hefty discount if he had bought it from my eham.net or swap.qth.com listing, as the price there was 15% less. His loss! ;-) 73 -john NE4U ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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For eBay, I do have a few recommendations (having just sold a couple of
laptops). When you're creating the auction, there's an option to use the advanced listing tool - do that. You can require that people pay immediately when they use the Buy It Now option. This helps avoid a lot of scams where people try to "wire funds in a few days" outside of eBay. You can also list at a fixed price and avoid the auction altogether. eBay does a really good job of telling you the range of prices you can expect to sell something for and even suggests a price that's likely to get it sold in a short time frame. On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 7:29 AM John Shadle <[hidden email]> wrote: > I've done business on eBay, eham.net classifieds, and swap.qth.com boards. > All have yielded acceptable results. I've never been burned at any of them > as a seller. > > I recently sold my K3 on eBay, but would've preferred to sell it on > eham.net > or swap.qth.com. eBay, as you know, takes about 15% off the top (including > the required use of PayPal). So, figure on that... > > The fellow who bought my K3 on eBay could've received a hefty discount if > he had bought it from my eham.net or swap.qth.com listing, as the price > there was 15% less. His loss! ;-) > > 73 > -john NE4U > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] > Jeremiah Peschka ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Jose,
You could try selling your goods through your local ham club. Also, there are Yahoo! groups for many of the different Yaesu radio models. You could try joining one and sell through that avenue. If you're on Facebook, there is also a group there called "Amateur Radio Buy/Sell/Trade." You could try that as another option. As with all options, please beware of scam artists. Good luck! 73 de, --Ian Ian Kahn, KM4IK Roswell, GA EM74ua [hidden email] 10-10 #74624, North Georgia Chapter #2038 PODXS 070 #1962 K3# 281, P3 #688, KAT500 #860, KPA500 #1468 -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Jose Rivera Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 7:33 AM To: [hidden email] Subject: [Elecraft] Best Place to Sell Equipment? I am looking to sell some of my Yaesu Radios in order to purchase a K3s. What are good reliable places to sell my radios? (FT-950 and FT-857D). I am trying to avoid ebay. I live in New York City, Manhattan. Jose N2LRB [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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I find selling on e-mail reflectors better than e-bay (I have 90*
rating of 100%). Elecraft allows FS posts of Elecraft equipment and many ham reflectors will allow occasional ham selling. Different if you are a business. I like PayPal even though it charges 3% on sales to seller. It is fast and secure (meaning you risk the least in selling or buying from unknown people). Alternate is using Postal Money Orders (slower as you wait for 1st class mail). Or check if you know your buyer/seller and have trust (or endure 10-20 day wait for checks to clear). I buy/sell for personal use and also run a "small" ham business. I have been building DEMI transverter kits and recently began building a 80w 2m linear amp. I was just notified that DEMI has sold off the VHF/UHF transverter part of their business so I am "out of business" building their kits. I continue to offer 2m amps and process PayPal purchases of WA2ODO preamps. I may expand by offering some small kits in the future. Probably small ham accessories that are hard to find. I can build W6PQL kits on demand. 73, Ed - KL7UW http://www.kl7uw.com "Kits made by KL7UW" Dubus Mag business: [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Due to the large number of OT posts on this topic, let's wind it down now in the
interest of relieving email overload for our other readers. 73, Eric moderator when the natives allow it.. /elecraft.com/ On 2/26/2016 10:48 AM, Edward R Cole wrote: > I find selling on e-mail reflectors better than e-bay (I have 90* rating of > 100%). Elecraft allows FS posts of Elecraft equipment and many ham reflectors > will allow occasional ham selling. Different if you are a business. .... ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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> Or check if you know your buyer/seller and have trust (or endure 10-20 day wait for checks to clear). > Maybe that’s your bank. At least for domestic payments, checks are normally truncated at the bank of 1st deposit (paper checks generally no longer get moved around like the “good old days") and the exchange of funds is handled through ACH/ETF. A check should actually clear in 2-3 days at most. I've frequently taken a personal check payment if I know the buyer personally or by reputation, and I don’t recall having to wait any extraordinary time for a deposited check to show as “cleared”. I’ve used the QTH list, reflector postings and eBay for buying and selling (mostly buying, to the chagrin of my bride). They all work fine. eBay takes too much, but then I’ve found you often get a higher selling price on eBay, too, because the market is just bigger. The thing that bothers me about eBay the most is that they actually consider “shipping” to be part of the item's “value” and take a cut of what is your COST to ship. It’s only a few $$ usually, but it just makes me grit my teeth in disgust. Hamfests are at the bottom of the list — no matter how little you think you’re asking for something compared to perceived value, someone will stop by and tell you how (1) they won’t pay the eBay price, (2) they’d never pay that because they found one on a curb once or (3) they got theirs for $25 from a dying widow. I was once told that, because I wouldn’t come down another $5.00, it was MY fault that her grandson couldn’t have an ice cream on the way home. And from bitter experience I won’t ever buy anything at a hamfest from someone that I don’t know and who promises that if I ignore the rust (just needs some paint) “it works perfectly” ;-) Grant NQ5T K3 #2091, KX3 #8342 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Jose,
You might also contact a ham radio club or two in your area and see if they have a classified section in their newsletters. Attracting more local interest may make a sale quicker and less painful than one involving shipping the gear. Just a thought. Terry, W0FM -----Original Message----- From: Gene Gabry [mailto:[hidden email]] Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 7:15 AM To: [hidden email]; [hidden email] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Best Place to Sell Equipment? Jose, I have always used KA9FOX's classifieds site. Sold and bought many radios from his listings for many years. 100% satisfied. http://swap.qth.com/index.php GL Gene, N9TF K3S 10057 P3 -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Jose Rivera Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 6:33 AM To: [hidden email] Subject: [Elecraft] Best Place to Sell Equipment? I am looking to sell some of my Yaesu Radios in order to purchase a K3s. What are good reliable places to sell my radios? (FT-950 and FT-857D). I am trying to avoid ebay. I live in New York City, Manhattan. Jose N2LRB [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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I wish to correct something published under this topic.
Per the owners of DEMI (personal friends of mine): They have NOT sold their transverter business. They have only outsourced the assembly of their VHF transverters to alleviate the large backlog for assembled transverters. They remain fully in control of their transverter business. 73, Sam Carson K4SOC K4SOC (at) ARRL (dot) net ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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