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- Apr 11, 2008
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I bought a VHF 2 Freq. with free programming. It was used the seller said it was good. I gave Him the freq and tones apparently it was programmed, but I could not pick anything up on it no matter what. hooked it up to an antenna that was on my amp charger (antenna picked up the same freq when hooked to scanner).I was hoping to have a good working pager by now but for some reason it would not work.
I emailed the seller and He called, We talked trying to troubleshoot it. He seemed really nice and helpful, but no sauces, I sent it back expecting a prompt replacement for a working one. Here is where the possible scam starts:The pager when I received it was poor, squelch was hard to press, It looked like it was opened with a bad attempted to be put back together wear,Stickers were halfway peeling off. Nothing like the picture.
He called when He received it. Thats when the problems started.He accused me of switching the guts and stickers out and was very force full trying to convince me that I somehow did something wrong with a bad ego attitude. I must say at this point that He did received back the exact pager that was sent to me. Even said I did something to the stickers even though it was sent to me in that condition.I was truly hurt that someone would go and do something like that but we cant trust anyone these days.Apparently others did the swap of guts to him before and he must be doing the same thing to everyone that buys a non working pager from him so he can get rich.
The thing that started it all was for some reason apparently according to him the serial numbers do not match from the time he sent it to me til the time he received it back. I know 100% without a doubt that the pager is the the same one. There is something wrong on his part there is no reason that the model number does not match up. It gets better, He called and told me it was going to be about 5 days to get back to me because He needs to apparently send it out to some possibly fake company to take it apart to see the internal marks that show it really is the same pager.
To put it in simple terms I did nothing to it ao if it comes back to not be the same one (if its a real company) which there is no reason for that will prove 100% it is a Scam and I will expose Him and his business.
However If it comes back to be the same which it better because like I said its the same one, than he will send me a working replacement and it will possibly not be a scam, but instead he made a huge mistake and simply did not want to admit it.
I did some research but forgot where I read it. There is a problem with one of the programing systems which I think is the one he used that will wipe out the serial # and assign a new one if certain tones are inputed into the pager. which is the only thing I see could have happened.
Has anyone out there ever have a similar issue when programming minitor III pagers or have some sort of idea what had happened to the serial #? It just does not make any sense? I am amazed at how the guys mood went from good to furious for no reason. its OK though, I will be filing a dispute, and buyer protection if the 5 days are up and I do not hear anything back from the lieing scammer.
I will deff keep an update so this does not happen to anyone else, but for now I will keep his identity private unless he still wants to scam or accuse me of things that are not true, He should have gotten all the facts first I'm deff going to be telling him to apologize when he finds out he was wrong. I am sure that that is not a good way to run a business. Too bad too I was going to buy a bunch more things from his store too...
I emailed the seller and He called, We talked trying to troubleshoot it. He seemed really nice and helpful, but no sauces, I sent it back expecting a prompt replacement for a working one. Here is where the possible scam starts:The pager when I received it was poor, squelch was hard to press, It looked like it was opened with a bad attempted to be put back together wear,Stickers were halfway peeling off. Nothing like the picture.
He called when He received it. Thats when the problems started.He accused me of switching the guts and stickers out and was very force full trying to convince me that I somehow did something wrong with a bad ego attitude. I must say at this point that He did received back the exact pager that was sent to me. Even said I did something to the stickers even though it was sent to me in that condition.I was truly hurt that someone would go and do something like that but we cant trust anyone these days.Apparently others did the swap of guts to him before and he must be doing the same thing to everyone that buys a non working pager from him so he can get rich.
The thing that started it all was for some reason apparently according to him the serial numbers do not match from the time he sent it to me til the time he received it back. I know 100% without a doubt that the pager is the the same one. There is something wrong on his part there is no reason that the model number does not match up. It gets better, He called and told me it was going to be about 5 days to get back to me because He needs to apparently send it out to some possibly fake company to take it apart to see the internal marks that show it really is the same pager.
To put it in simple terms I did nothing to it ao if it comes back to not be the same one (if its a real company) which there is no reason for that will prove 100% it is a Scam and I will expose Him and his business.
However If it comes back to be the same which it better because like I said its the same one, than he will send me a working replacement and it will possibly not be a scam, but instead he made a huge mistake and simply did not want to admit it.
I did some research but forgot where I read it. There is a problem with one of the programing systems which I think is the one he used that will wipe out the serial # and assign a new one if certain tones are inputed into the pager. which is the only thing I see could have happened.
Has anyone out there ever have a similar issue when programming minitor III pagers or have some sort of idea what had happened to the serial #? It just does not make any sense? I am amazed at how the guys mood went from good to furious for no reason. its OK though, I will be filing a dispute, and buyer protection if the 5 days are up and I do not hear anything back from the lieing scammer.
I will deff keep an update so this does not happen to anyone else, but for now I will keep his identity private unless he still wants to scam or accuse me of things that are not true, He should have gotten all the facts first I'm deff going to be telling him to apologize when he finds out he was wrong. I am sure that that is not a good way to run a business. Too bad too I was going to buy a bunch more things from his store too...
