After reading a series of ads by Billy describing a piece of equipment as "9 out of 10", "beautiful", and "really nice", with new tubes and with an extra set of fairly rare tubes, I finally called Billy and we struck a deal. He was going to have it "packed really right, double boxed and all" which somehow justified the $30 in shipping he charged. When I received the unit, the "double-box" was one crappy box stuffed into another box the same size, minimum packing material inside the inner box ( i.e. - half the inside of the inner box was air ), no spare tubes, a broken plate meter on the unit, and 3 bent corners on the cover. I thought it was shipping damage until I noticed the hand-written notes on the back of the "manual" ( a bad copy ) about the broken plate meter and how it might be fixed, and discovered that the bent case was old damage that had been subject to a very poor attempt to fix it with pliars. When I contacted Billy about the problems, he said he thought everything was "fine" and claimed not to know anything was wrong when he sent it.. He said he "couldn't find" the spare set of tubes, and that was that. He said he felt bad about the broken meter and would find me a replacement, which of course he never did. After I finally found a ( very rare ) replacement meter and sent him an email requesting reimbursement for it, I never heard from him again. At this point, I don't really want to ever hear from him again.
This guy is a loser. Stay away from him.
KF4FVL, Billy Morrin: Don't Buy Anything From This Guy
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KF4FVL
I wasn't surprised to see this post concerning a sour deal with Billy. I fell for a sob story and sent him a Kenwood 7950 for which he was supposed to finish paying me the next month. I did get $25 and he was to send the rest later. My fault for trusting him. His email doesn't work now. I should have posted this much earlier but darn...I hate to flame anyone.
Ralph K5JN
Ralph K5JN