It’s crap like this that has led me to stop looking for the unicorn “NOS” open box radios on eBay or any other number of sites. No thing as a free lunch and all that jazz…
Either I save my shekels and fork out for a new radio from a dealer I can trust or buy surplus radios that I can find OEM parts for.
My latest addiction is the Mototrbo SL radios. Don’t know what schools, hotels, and casinos are running these days but tons of used SL7550 and SL300’s are popping up. Plenty of OEM parts at decent enough prices that I don’t need to mess with ChiCom ripoffs. Not that I have ever seen Chinese parts for any of the SL series.
Just got (3) 7550e UHF1 radios for a very good price. These make excellent radios for when you want to play radio but can’t show up to a sales call/work with a HT hanging off your belt. Blends in really well on my belt sitting in the holster or I can just slip it into a pocket.
So if a Motorola radio has brand new bones and has fake tags what is the problem really if you think about it. As long as the bones are a 100 percent legit the tags do not matter if they are legit or fake in all reality but I do get it. Some people build parts radios. The same as Motorola would do it. Everything is built from parts and then everything is connected with cables.
Also, I heard if you send in a radio to the depot for repair Motorola will repair any kind of their radios as long as its not a stolen radio. Tags or no tags for 950.00 bucks flat fee for anything including any of the main boards and the MACE and so on. Thats what I heard. Is that true or not?
I went to go pet the pony but I did not have enough money to purchase an APX 8000. I think I will just keep waiting to purchase the APX NEXT when they flood Ebay in the next year or two. Those are some really nice radios. APX 8000 bones and an Android OS with a touch screen.
The problem is 95% of the time with fake tags is the illegitimate representation -
"NEW IN THE FACTORY BOX MOTOROLA APX 8000XE "FACTORY-NEW IN THE ORIGINAL BOX"..."NO DEPOT HAS TOUCHED THIS UNIT" "NEW IN THE BOX 3000 MAXIMUM CHANNELS NEVER PROGRAMMED BORN ON 12/20/2021
" ....With clearly a "REPAIRED" UL tag with FM housing and 2018 serial number?
Only a slight mention of...... and my favorite ebay haxor term "
professionally upgraded" not that but a "FULLY UPDATED ON 03/20/2023" whatever the hell that means on this FACTORY-NEW NEVER PROGRAMMED unit. and I've seen "real fake" tags before, bare basic info and the seller wasn't hunching over a magnifiying glass comparing font, size and spacing trying to make a counterfeit tag look a legitimate product.
I've bought NOS in the clamshell legitimate APX on ebay before. It was properly labeled, in factory container, didn't include a dozen repetitve promises to contrary evidence, and the flashcode was reasonable, it wasn't a complete whore flash like including FNDY emergency tone while indicating every box checked as they go down the list of creating a flashcode attempting to derive increased profit and the seller wasn't representing it as a "new factory box radio" polished in Armor All with a whore flash and numerous inconsistencies pointed out thru this thread.
