Well my ebay seller burned me on the radio. He took my payment, marked it as shipped and even provided a tracking number, just like I expect from a good ebay seller. Unfortunately the package never showed up and when I tracked it I discovered that it had never actually shipped at all. Went to my purchased items page to contact the seller and discovered that the transaction was gone, as if I had never purchased it at all. Luckily I still had the order confirmation email so I was able to link back to the purchase that way where I discovered that he cancelled the sale the same day I bought it, right after providing the shipping info, and then marked it as payment refunded. When I contacted him to find out what was going on he claimed that he cancelled my purchase because he got the flu. WTF!!! I asked him to just ship it when he felt better and he said that he couldn't do that because he had already marked it as refunded but he would relist it in a couple of weeks and I could repurchase it then. NO WAY JOSE! First of all, I no longer trust you, and secondly, you never actually refunded me (it had already been over a week at this point and nothing was even pending with paypal). Another week goes by and I get a message from someone claiming to be his wife and she says he is in the hospital and will be closing his ebay store. It took several more messages and several more days, but I finally got refunded. In looking back through his seller feedback I found that he pulled the same scam on someone else, with the same flu excuse two weeks prior to my purchase.
Anyway, now that my rant is over, I ended up buying another radio from Amazon and it was in my hands the next day. I was able to install it just where I had planned and I think it will work out well there. It's handy, yet out of the way. As you can see, the winch handle has plenty of clearance too. Now I just need to buy a NMEA output cable for my sonar/chartplotter and obtain my MMSI number and I will be in business.
