If you watch the video, the way the chip was being handled, banged out of the box, no ESD wrist strap to earth ground. Many things would keep me away from it besides the price. And like someone else posted, who's to say he won't just place it in small envelope and mail it like that. Right in the box he was banging it out of!! JMHO. Having worked with static sensitive equipment for years, he may have ruined that chip by now. Without being able to verify that, it's not worth the cost he is trying to sell it for. I don't care how rare they are!!! Like you said, just get a 10-12 meter radio, a new one at that. But anyhow, it's pretty well apparent that if he is living in someone else's house and making the money that he charges people, that he has some sort of habit or problem I would venture to say. But who I am to judge LOL! His work ethics are piss poor, I will say that. The cobra 29 vid that was posted, the tech if it was Timmy, sure didn't have any problem moving it around on his desk and stuff and flipping it over and what not with no towel or nothing around the bezel of the radio. Guess his customers don't care how the radio looks when they get it back LOL! What a shame!!!!