The validity of Postal Money Orders can be verified by taking the serial
numbers to the USPS and they will call the fraud unit and verify them.
Postal Money Orders are real popular for forgery.
On 05/08/2013 06:08 PM, chuck richards wrote:
How about paying with a postal money order?
Just go to the post office, have it made
payable to the seller, purchase it, put it
in an envelope and mail it to him. It's as good as
cash. He can cash it right at his local post office.
That way, it should not matter to him whether you exist
or not. He gets his money and sends the part to you.
Do you really exist or not? Wow!! Now I have heard
them all!!
Chuck
---- Original Message ----
From: pjfra...@mac.com
To: phono-l@oldcrank.org
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Weird things to do just for a part.
Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 14:40:48 -0700
I'm of course baffled by this. In all my years of collecting, I've
never encountered anyone who is the slightest bit strange, odd,
paranoid, socially awkward, difficult, maladjusted, or otherwise
different from the accepted mainstream.
And I know none of the rest of you ever ever have, either.
(I'm NOT winking. I must have something stuck in my eye.)
-- Peter
pjfra...@mac.com
On May 8, 2013, at 2:09 PM, Ron L'Herault <lhera...@bu.edu> wrote:
Boy, this Gary guy seems a bit paranoid. He could always wait for
the check
to clear before sending the speaker. OTOH, I think you can post
private
video to Youtube. You'd send the link to Gary and tell him to
let you know
when he'd seen it. Then you could remove it, I would think.
Ron L
-----Original Message-----
From: phono-l-boun...@oldcrank.org
[mailto:phono-l-boun...@oldcrank.org] On
Behalf Of Arvin Casas
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 2:58 PM
To: phono-l@oldcrank.org
Subject: [Phono-L] Weird things to do just for a part.
Hi All,
I have a weird question. In the process of restoring or acquiring
pieces
for your phonographs, have sellers asked you to do "odd things"
beyond
cutting a check?
I'm trying to restore my Columbia-Kolster Viva-Tonal 950 and found
a guy on
youtube who has a speaker that matches what my 950 used to have.
I contacted the seller, we negotiated a price. I tried to send
him payment
through my bank's electronic system (kinda like Paypal but not so
many fees)
but he said he had been "ripped off" that way and refused payment.
Complying with his wishes, I was in the midst of cutting him a
paper check
(this time written by my bank and delivered by courier) when he
backed out
saying the whole thing was "fishy."
This seller, Gary in Wisconsin, now wants me to shoot my own
youtube video
showing me and my 950 to prove that I exist. It's a little more
than I'm
comfortable doing.
(Despite the fact that I'm often compared to Cary Grant, I'm not
particularly fond of videoing myself and posting them publicly.)
Gary says all the radio people do it, so I should too.
Has anybody else been put through the wringer like this just for a
part?
Those of you who cross dabble with Radios, do you often video
yourself on
youtube?
My faith in humanity was sucker punched by this weirdness. Just
wondering
what others think and what other stories people might like to
share, odd,
weird, or otherwise.
Best Wishes from Massachusetts!
Arvin
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