I once sold the same radio 3 times on Ebay before someone would keep their hands out of it. I got it for partial payment for some work I did. It was a RCI 2980 and was in beautiful condition but didn't work. I replaced a regulator, aligned it and ran it for a bout a month. It worked great and didn't even drift on SSB like most RCIs do. The only thing not stock about it was the echo board. Someone had put in an after market one. After about a month I sold it on Ebay. Seven days later the buyer was complaining that it only did 4 watts on AM and SSB and wanted his money back. So Ebay of course gives me the "pay him back or else threat". So I got it back, reset the low and high carrier and the meter. I guess when he turned the carrier VRs the wrong way and the power didn't go up he must have thought the meter somehow was set wrong so he messed with that too. The next guy that bought it said it didn't even work at all. I told him about the problem I had with the first guy. This guy swore he had not done anything to it and that he would never open up any electronic device BUT his "tech" told him the processor was bad and that's why it didn't work. So Ebay sends the threat again and I get it back. I filed a complaint with Ebay about this being the second time I got taken and I would no longer sell anything through them again if they didn't make it right. They told me they would look into it. They still continued to send me threats to pay back the buyer within 30 days or else they would take the money from my credit card account. I finally payed him back at the end of the 30 days and low and behold two days later Ebay sides with me and says I don't need to pay him back. What a scam. They definitely don't protect the seller. This time same deal with the carrier VR's both turned all the way the wrong way but at least he didn't mess with the meter adjustment. The speaker had been removed from it's spot but was still there and working and the echo board didn't work anymore. It's IC didn't have any output and of course the ID is wiped off them so I didn't know what it was and couldn't replace it. I'm not sure how he damaged that echo board. Maybe he had another like it that didn't work and swapped it. I finally sold it to a fellow that was happy with it even though the echo didn't work. He said he didn't like echo anyways. And that is why everyone lists their items as parts only, not working. Can't get complaints if they are sold as not working in the first place. It amazes me that people know how to turn their stove, water faucet, thermostat, volume controls up and down but when they get into a radio and they turn something and don't get the result they are supposed to get, all common sense goes out the window. They just don't seem to be able to comprehend that they need to turn it back the other way. The way it was before. Why is it that people who wouldn't dare mess with their tv, stereo or computer suddenly think they are electronic experts when they get their hands on a cb?
