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After many good transactions on eBay, I finally got some bad medicine from eBay seller antonia2. I purchased 2 quads of NOS Siemens 6922s at his list price in 2 auctions. In his advertisement, he guaranteed the tubes were only unwrapped for testing and photographs, they tested full and matched within 2-3%. According to my tester they all tested bad. I then had 2 other eBay 100% feedback sellers test them with the same result- all bad. After 2 weeks and many unanswered emails I decided to let other Asylum members know about this seller. I also previewed this post with Chris Garrett, because he has purchased 6922s from one of the eBay sellers who checked the tubes for me.http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=64629&item=5721830554
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=64629&item=5721829343
Many thanks to all the Tubes Asylum members. The Asylum has been a great resource for me. I'll post an update if anyone needs more info.
Follow Ups:
Antonia2 sent 2 RCA 845 tubes which were dead tubes to me. I asked him to refund but he denied.
This seller is really bad, kick him off Ebay.
what did the auction text say. As is, maybe open filaments, *NOT TESTED* and no refunds?Nice open ended accusation BTW...I think I will ignore it, beyond responding to your post.
regards,
Douglas
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Beware the man who behaves deceitfully towards others, for there is nothing else to save you from his deceiving you
Stay with him; I had a similar incident with "genuinetubes". It was a hassle but I emailed and emailed and escalated until I got my tubes. The day I opened my claim with Paypal (and I advised him I was going to do this), I received the tubes (after 3 wks with no communication other than they'd been sent). This guy's had similar tube incidents before and it doesn't look like he resolved them (I read ALL of his feedback), but you may end up being his exception... I hope this gets resolved to your satisfaction.
I won one of his auctions, and waited an appropriate time to receive my tubes. When they didn't show up, I emailed him and he immediately sent a second set. The second set arrived in one week (US to Canada). The tubes that arrived met the criteria as advertised on ebay. How many other people would do this? If someone was to deliberately scam anyone, no tubes would have shown up. I didn't have to hassle him. Simply inform him that the first set didn't arrive, and he took immediate action to resolve the problem. I believe that genuine tubes is a sincere vendor.
Genuinetubes repeatedly promised me delivery for over a month, but they did not come. I got tired of his promises and filed a fraud report with eBay. He immediately shipped my tubes along with a few extras. They tested great. Don't understand his problem.
he finally sent me two beautiful tubes after repeated e-mail about the "lost" mail and then until I finally became desparate...
"genuinetubes" used to be "surpluselectronics2003". He changed to genuinetubes when his feedback got too bad. He has now done the same thing again. His new ID is "vintagevalvesetc".
That's interesting, because he is still selling tubes as genuinetubes. Can a seller have more than one ID?
Thanks for the heads up on the new name.Despite the complaints about this person it seems that Ebay has little interest( or ability ) in preventing Eleutrio from setting up shop under a new name.
Sorry for the problems you have had; hope they get resolved to your satisfaction!In his defense -
I have actually dealt with him -in person-; I drove ~800+ miles R/T from my place in SE Michigan to purchase and pick up a monster 4kv variable power supply (cheaper than shipping and yet another excuse to eat in Chicago).
Went to his home; he seemed to me to be a straight up pleasant guy with the largest personal collection of classic vintage equipment I have EVER seen in my life, including museums (mainly 20's-30' WE stuff - amp racks, car sized horns and the like - stunning).
I could have spent -days- there "exploring", listening and talking with him. As it was, I spent 2-3 hours for a 10 minute pickup.Also note that the majority of his negative feedback (last time I looked) was from Korean eBayer's; I don't want to disparage or appear racist, but as a "group" they don't have the best rep on eBay for successfully completing big ticket eBay transactions!
His email can be flakey as well, so be persistent, and I hope and suspect the situation can be resolved.
I also would like to add that I know him personally, and he really is a good guy, but communication is sometimes difficult if he is caught up with something at the time. I don't think he would purposely sell bad tubes, and drop off communications, so like mrfixit said, be persistant, and I hope all is resolved.
He knows his electronics too, and really enjoys listening and appreciating classic Western Electric and other vintage professional gear, as well as selling it, which I respect.
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I had very few issues with Asian buyers- perhaps one or two 'no pay'.
As for bad tubes? No brainer here. Either a refund or replacement is in order. That is what I perform, but never had a poor gm tube issue with one exception of I believe tester operator error on the tube tester or simply I got screwed. I did not request the '2-cent' tube to be returned.
Sorry to hear about the bad luck. While it looks ok, a seller with 96% feedback rating is below the lower limit that many will buy from. I think it's a troublesome percentage to many veteran ebay users. I am leary of anyone under 99% who has tons of transactions to boot and below 98%, I don't even think about buying. Alot of ebay buyers feel similiar. Lesson learned I guess but maybe reporting to ebay is worthwhile, it couldn't hurt anyway.
I know 96% isn't great feedback (Chris already scolded me about this), but that's what my rating will be if he hits me with retaliatory feedback. Having the word "Guaranteed" 3 times in the listing is what really sucked me in. If he had stipulated "as is" I would have passed. Besides, the "guaranteed brand new" claim should entitle me to a charge back when I dispute this thru Mastercard.
(1) SET OF 4 BEAUTIFUL NOS BRAND NEW, PACKAGED 02/1962, GERMAN SIEMANS HALSKE MATCHING LOT NUMBERS GOLD PIN PREMIUM GRADE GUAURANTEED 6922 6DJ8 ECC88 TWIN TRIODE VACUUM TUBES.
(2) GAURANTEED, THE STAPLE OF MOST MODERN HIGH END TUBE PREAMPS BY AUDIO RESEARCH, ETC.DOUBLE SEALED UNTIL OPENED FOR PHOTOGRAPHING. HAVE BEEN IN MY PERSONAL COLLECTION FOR YEARS BUT AS I HAVE NO CURRENT EQUIPMENT TO USE THEM ARE A SUPERFLOUS ITEM TO STORE. ONE OF THE BEST QUIETIST EVERMADE THESE ARE CRISP SHINY NEW.
(3) TEST FULL AND EQUAL BOTH SIDES MATCH WITHIN 2-3%. GAURANTEED. 4 PIECES.
Actually there is an implied warranty of merchantability, meaning that the items will be good for what they are normally used for unless this warranty is waived (using the term "as is"). Further, not only did the merchant not waive the warranty of merchantibility, they stated that they were "guaranteed" instead of saying "as is". From what I remember of basic law in my accounting classes this does actually mean that the tubes are fit for normal use and the idea that they did "gaurantee" that they are actually good does not fly.
agree with your commentsbut once I read a seller's reply to a feedback: did you read the description? I said "tested", didn't say "tested good"
and AFAIK for electronic components ebay shied away from such disputes
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