Advice on manuals web site

Their web site is in Mesa AZ. FWIW...

Wow... I would have bet that it was offshore, from the English usage on the site. Still, no contact info, so I'm still leery of it. I'll send an email and see if they will send me their location and phone number.

Dave M wrote:

Their servers may be in AZ (I show Scottsdale), but if it's the same bunch, they are Russians: (from 2002)

Their business model appears to be selling passwords to locked PDFs: (from 2003)

What Google Groups' search engine returns:

I've used them in the past and they seem to be on the up-and-up to me.

In one of the orders there was a screw up, what they had listed as a service manual was a theory of operation manual and after I brought that up to them they made things right.

It does look like a shady operation but I think they are one of the older sites still in operation for those kind of things. The longevity says something.

Yeah, I just looked, the first order from them was in 2003, so they have been around for six years now.

What might make you uncomfortable is, after you order the manual you'll get an email to send paypal to some random email address, after that is sent you'll get another email with a url and password, then you just download it.

So definetly shady in operation but an honest kind of shady.

-bruce snipped-for-privacy@ripco.com

Well, just because the web site is in AZ, doesn't mean they are! I guess I should have said that too...

As well, I'm usually reluctant to deal with sites that do not have any reasonable contact information. I find that to be common with users, no address is equated to a probable scam.

Thanks to all for the responses to my concern about this vendor. I'm still a bit shaky on doing business with them, so I'll try yo find the manual I need from another source. Specifically, I'm looking for the service manual for a Panasonic model PV-D4744S VCR/DVD combo unit. I'm thinking my unit has a power supply problem, but it's hard to figure out without spending lots of time trying to reverse engineer the circuit. Anyone happen to have a PFD of that manual that I could download? Thanks for all the info,

How much agonizing is it worth doing over $10?

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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Not a lot, I admit. I just have a problem doing business with a foreign entity that completely hides their identity, even if they have been in business for a number of years. It's my $10, and lthough I can easily afford to buy the manual, I prefer to send it to someone that I can communicate with in the event of a problem. I maintain my stance against doing business with

If you don't want to risk $10, how about $5? :)

What manual were you looking for? I have a manuals site at

Here are the details on the Site

it's a Russian site:

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I wouldn't do business with this guy.

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Thanks for that, Paul. I had already checked your site and searched for the manual I needed (Panasonic PV-D4744S DVD-VCR combo). I have since bought a copy from another web vendor.