selling used test equipment question..

A clever? avoidance of the posting rules?

Thats what ebay is for.

There's a posting from yesterday.. 'For sale Radio Receiver and Spectrum analyser'..

no complaints in that thread..

A quick google search shows 1270 hits for 'for sale' in sci.electronics.misc

So, ignore the last paragraph.. have you had any experience selling used equipment to dealers?.. Thou, as I stated, I'd rather get this stuff to an electronics enthusiast vs. a reseller company if the price ended up being the same..

Regards,

Jim

And your point is that others are doing it so it's OK? This is not the correct forum; sorry!

Jeez Jim, there are too many for me to list. Plus, you have the fleamarkets called "hamfests" and the possibility of charitable donations to schools for a tax write-off and on and on! Do some research.

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Probably because at least it's blatant and up-front.
You seem to be trying to do the same thing (sell something) but are
pretending that you're not.

Never said I wasn't selling anything.. I'm sorry if you got the impression that I was attempting to sell all my stuff in s.e.m. That's not my intent.. I'd rather get rid of everything in one shot, but I did mention that there was a 'one liner' at the end for any individuals interested.

My intent was to find if anyone had personal experience dealing with equipment resellers..

No mention of any wrongdoing in any of the 4 or so FS, FA posts just in the past two weeks could possibly indicate to a reasonable individual that posting 'for sale' is ok.. I'm not going to go through each of the 1270 posts that the search returned to see if anyone objected to any of those..

Perhaps if I was 'blatant and up front' it'd be ok?

Nah, it's never too late.. not until you die. For starters, someone could start mentioning to people doing FS/FA posts that this isn't the place for it..

Don't know if the link came through, but also mentioning a search for 'guide for the sci.electronics' post by Mark Zenier (dated January 21,

1999) might offer some insight to what the various sci.electronics groups are for..

"sci.electronics.misc General discussions of the field of electronics.

"General discussions on the topic of electronics. (Discussions on the relative merits of various consumer electronics equipment are better held in the groups in the rec hierarchy devoted to those topics.)"

.. that industry equipment for sale posts would be better suited for misc.industry.electronics.marketplace I appreciate the understanding and help..

Jim

Jim, it's rather basic ... the forums are for all kinds of purposes but not for selling items, unless they are specifically identified for that purpose. Please understand that folks don't want to see ads unless they want to buy. Why don't you investigate reasonable venues and not waste your time here?