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We are just the messenger for the reasons listed below why corporate Online auction sites today are major risks and aggravations for both Buyers and Sellers. Online search reveals 1,000s of complaints against them, which you can easily verify for yourself using Online search engines. And we have our own 10 years of eBay experiences as evidence, many current and former eBay Sellers are very upset with eBay, check out their complaints. We believe that while eBay worked well for over a decade, its increasingly serious flaws became intolerable. Corporate Online auction sites and mall sites are clearly no longer new, fashionable, cost effective, safe, simple and easy-to-use or interesting - the heyday of Online auction sites and online malls are over. We believe Yahoo! saw this coming when it dropped its auction site in June, 2007 - else clearly Yahoo! would have expanded its Online auction instead. Please bookmark, print out and inform your family, friends and associates about this webpage.

CORPORATE ONLINE AUCTION SITES ARE OFTEN NO BARGAIN: While many Items on Online auction sites are the cheapest you can find anywhere else; however, when you factor in Seller S/H, this percentage drops substantially. As a Buyer, you no doubt have already discovered that the TOTAL AMOUNT you end up paying for an Online auction Item is often close to or above what you can buy the same Item for retail down the street! It didn't used to be this way. Why? Because these days corporate Online auction sites charge their Sellers very high fees and impose costly inconveniences and allow so much swindling and counterfeiting to go on - all of which the Buyer pays for. We recently did a study and found that about 12% of all new Items we ran into on a popular corporate Online auction site actually end up costing you more than if you bought the Items new in retail stores, and about another 73% end up costing at least 85% of retail store bought Items. However, we found that 92% of Items we can buy at flea markets and garage sales, which also sell on Online auction sites, are at least 20% cheaper than their Online auction prices (including S/H), 48% are less than 50% cheaper, and 16% are less than 20% cheaper. ABQ Techzonics is a small business, and while we try to price our Items substantially lower than do Online auctions, many of our Items cannot be found on Online auctions and sometimes unknown to us prices change substantially, so sometimes we may overprice an Item. However, when we overprice an Item, WE WILL GLADLY NEGOTIATE a new, lower price with our customer if he/she can document others are selling it for lower prices (including their and our S/H because some Sellers sell at low prices plus very high S/H). Corporate Online auctions seldom permit price negotiations between Buyers and Sellers. The money-saving lesson here is: (1) Check with us before considering buying from any Online auction, and IF you find our price is the same or lower, (2) Buy from us, but if it is higher, (3) Try to negotiate with us for a lower price.

Also, much of the "competition" you see on corporate Online auctions is not real competition. Today, many Items sold are made in or controlled by one country, a country which strictly controls all of its industries. They then flood the auction's offerings for the Item by using a myriad of Online auction IDs and schemes to offer the same or very similar Items in different ways, but no matter who you buy it from, at most you save only a few dollars. Some of their puppet Sellers will have low prices but high S/H, while others will have high prices but low/free S/H - all to confuse, frustrate and exasperate Buyers looking for real bargains tediously trying to sort through several, if not dozens, of essentially duplicate offers.

One of the big disadvantages of corporate Online auction sites is that they charge fees - high and escatating fees - some for both listing and selling. All of these high Seller fees must be passed on to Buyers by all Sellers who need to make a profit. Just to stay in business, we had to charge more on eBay than what we would have liked because of the high cash fees we constantly paid even on our items that didn't sell, and these fees left us little room to offer special sales, substantially negotiate prices and S/H, and consider special deals, combined purchases and bartering transactions with our many regular good customers.

Another big disadvantage is that the Seller reaches a point that the corporate Online auction site has preempted so much of the control over his/her own business that the auction site itself increasingly becomes the real owner of the business - using each business as one its cash cows, while assuming no responsibility for the business. One example, most Online auction sites don't allow the listing of certain Items based on the site's politically-correct agenda. While some Items we can't list because they are illegal to list, we are NOT constrained by a politically-correct agenda.

Some falsely believe that as an Online Buyer or Seller, Online corporate auction sites and malls protect them. Some of these Online sites force you to do business only through their own "bank," which kickbacks much of its fees it charges YOU to the mall or auction site - they get you coming and going! Often nickel and diming you into poverty. As a Seller, many "Buyers" don't pay, the Online auction site puts you through the grinder trying to recover your sales fees, the auction site then allows the "Buyer" to leave you negative feedback - even though "Buyer" never paid for the Item AND it denies you to leave negative feedback on the "Buyer" - the "Buyer" cheat you and you get the negative feedback! Also, unless their "bank" is happy with your proof of shipment, the Buyer can complain that he/she never got the Item and their "bank" fully refunds Buyer. As Buyer, if the Seller rips you off and you return the Item, and you ask their "bank" to force a refund, all their "bank" has to do is to claim that the Seller has insufficient funds, and you lose every dime of your purchase. In one case, a Buyer in his complaint to the auction site-owned "bank" clearly stated that he had received the Item, and the "bank" still refunded him because the Seller had no Postal proof of shipping the Item. It is our belief that these corporate auction site and mall "banks" routinely lie to and rip-off both Sellers and Buyers to outright steal money. If you have ever experienced this outright fraud - NEVER DO BUSINESS WITH THE CROOKS AGAIN!

All Buyers want an honest and simple system of efficiently finding Items and then buying them at reasonable costs. They do not want to have to deal with a complex system which requires them to register and provide them their Moneygram, bank account and other personal data, and then badgers them constantly with ads, emails, arbitrary, capricious and frivolous time-consuming demands, feedback responses, etc. Nor a system where a Search can require combing through 100s - even 1,000s (e.g. 425,000 sports card auctions on a major Online auction site!) - of similar Items to find even one that matches what they want in Item make, model, description, price, S/H and Seller. Nor a search system which requires them to configure a complex Boolean algebra search equation to optimally search for every sought Item if they even hope to narrow down the finds to a manageable amount to manually search through out of the 100,000s - millions of total Items in the auction site pot, 99% having nothing to do with sought Item. Nor a system where every Seller uses a different format, where every Item requires combing through lists and going to a different webpage, and where every purchase requires a separate search, purchase, transaction, payment, accounting and tracking. Furthermore, many Online auction Sellers describe things so confusingly, deceptively, incompletely and/or incorrectly that Buyers are often misled or confused about what they are actually buying. For example, how many Online auction sales (especially electronics) have you seen where the pig-in-a-poke Seller doesn't list and refuses to describe upon inquiry all the items in the container of items he/she sells? Makes us believe that much of what Online auctions sell is stolen and counterfeit merchandise and/or phonied-up near-worthless trash. In fact, one major corporate Online auction site apparently sells so much counterfeit goods that it is sued by major corporations. No mystery why Buyers today are migrating away from the old, stale, slow, costly, dishonest, inefficient and bureaucratic corporate Online auction sites to the newer and fresher Online Superstores such as our ABQ Techzonics Superstore.

And to become a corporate Online auction site Buyer, the site requires you to divulge all kinds of personal and private information about yourself - information that the corporate auction site profitably sells or distributes to its numerous and unknown "global partners" (consider what "global partners" consist of these days!). Their "global partners" keep constant track of your 'buying habits.' And when you visit their websites, they load up your computer with all kinds of Internet tracking cookies (i.e. spyware) and perhaps other malware - they totally invade your privacy! If you were in a mall and a mall official followed you around to every store you shopped, looked over your shoulder, recorded everything on a clipboard you looked at and bought, and informed you that he/she was going to sell your personal data to his/her "global partners," claiming that he/she is doing you a big favor to help direct more relevant ads to you, would you not be very angry? Then why should you tolerate Online auction sites and online mall sites officials to do that very same thing to you through their tracking cookies, spyware and other malware! Why should you buy or sell at a company which disrespects and exploits you and your loved ones! As long as your intentions are legal, your payment doesn't bounce, you don't attempt to injure us, and you are no threat to us, we consider you to be a GOOD CUSTOMER, and ABQ Techzonics does not care who you are - your business is your business. ABQ Techzonics does not sell or distribute its mailing lists or personal information of its good customers to anyone, never places malware on your computer (not even cookies), and has no "global partners."

AUCTION SITE MALWARE ALERT: Even if an Online auction site is itself rated as "safe" by your antivirus, anti-spyware and anti-root kit programs and by Google or other search engine, the images and links carried by some of their various global Sellers may be infected with malware - click to enlarge any of their images or any of their website links and your computer may automatically get infected! Prove to yourself: When you click to enlarge one of their images or website URL links, look at the image or website URL in your browser's Title Bar, and then check out their URL. With ABQ Techzonics, you deal with only one Seller - us. And because popular Online auction sites and their countless "global partners" carry member credit and debit card, SSN and other personal data, hacking attempts by numerous global hackers are constantly being launched against them, and against their members as they log into their Online auction accounts, and are often successful. ABQ Techzonics does not have any customer database on any computer linked to the Internet - no one can hack into any ABQ Techzonics customer database.

The amount of garbage code major Online corporate auction sites dump onto your computer and phone from the minute you log ON until you log OFF is astronomical! This sickening memory-evaporating computer garbage YOU must regularly clean up yourself on your system - a tedious time-costly effort. Verify this yourself by first cleaning out all of your temporary files, run your browser, then log onto a major corporate auction site, then immediately log off without doing anything and close your browser, then view the large amount of "temporary file" garbage that the auction site just dumped onto your computer for YOU to clean up - even when you have not done a single thing on their auction site! These Online corporate auction site temporary files often multiply to orders of magnitude from their initial defecation onto your system if you actually use the Online auction site. One session on a corporate auction site these days can typically result in 100s of malware files dumped onto your system. No doubt you've also noticed how your system substantially slows down the longer you stay on the corporate auction site, the more you do, and after you log off the auction site (especially infecting your system with tracking cookies so they can track everything you do after you log off). Not all of this malware originates from the corporate auction site itself because these popular sites are also popular to hackers who love to hitchhike their malware - some of it very dangerous malware - on all who visit them. Now do this same experiment with ABQ Techzonics. The only temporary files you will then find are the handful generated by your browser and system themselves as ABQ Techzonics respects its customers and NEVER deposits cookies, spyware or any other malware on your computer or phone system.

Have you noticed that whenever you bid on an Item in a corporate Online auction and win, you usually end up paying more than the average of what the Item sold before in previous and subsequent auctions you didn't bid on? You can usually verify this by simply doing your own study on it. Some of the corporate Online auction sites do many under-the-table special favors for their big Sellers and Buyers. As a Buyer on these auctions, the auction site has complete details as to your buying habits and how far they can push YOU into paying maximum prices because they know your bidding and buying history, and because they know the extent of your interest in an Item if you emailed the Seller on it, you are on the Item's Watch List, you are on the Item's page, you told the auction site or Seller to notify you when the auction is coming up, and/or you've clicked on to view identical or similar Items. The auction site knows what your maximum bid is likely to be hours before the auction closes, and exactly what it is once you bid even if you bid just seconds before the auction closes. Clearly, these corporate auction sites are feeding their Powerful Sellers and Buyers of Items info that you have shown an interest in an Item, the likelihood you will bid on it, and what your maximum bid is likely to be on a real time basis so that shill buyers (many believed to be electronic fabrications) can then be virtually instantly deployed to manipulate the end bids so that YOU end up paying more while their Powerful Sellers and the auction site both laugh at you all the way to the bank!

MORE ONLINE AUCTION SCAMS: An apparently increasingly popular scam for ripping-off Sellers on major commercial Online auction site which provides its own Online "bank" to pay for all buys and practically requires you to use it, is what we call the Shipping Address Scam. Here's how the Shipping Address Scam works, two variations:
VARIATION #1: The Buyer buys an Item, and pays for it using the auction site's Online "bank". Earlier, the Buyer provided two different shipping addresses, one to the auction itself and the other to the auction's "bank". The auction emails the Seller with a notice with the Buyer's auction shipping address. The auction's bank will similarly email the Seller, including its Buyer's bank shipping address. Regardless of which address the Seller ships to, the Buyer will raise hell and make demands, claiming that the Item was shipped to the wrong shipping address. For example, Buyer might say, 'You shipped to the wrong address. Clearly, I intended you to ship to XYZ. I had to drive all the way across town (or similar), as the result, I expect you to refund $ABC amount...' Sometimes adding, '... else, I will leave you negative feedback' or similar.
VARIATION #2: Same as Variation #1, except the shipping address provided to the auction by Buyer - where virtually all Sellers ship to (few ship to the shipping address provided by the "bank" because it is strung out on one line with no separations between address parts so often it is confusing) - will be fake. Most Sellers ship pricier items using Delivery Confirmation or Certified Mail. The Item will then of course be returned as Undeliverable. The Buyer will then demand that the Seller take the package, paste over a new address label, and drop it in a mail box, sometimes threatening negative feedback. Problem is that while the package will likely then reach its new destination, the Delivery Confirmation or Certified Mail tracking will no longer apply. There will be no proof that the Buyer ever received the Item, so the crooked Buyer will quickly demand a full refund, which the auction will give him/her. If the Seller repackages the Item with fresh postage, the Seller again pays full S/H, this time out of his/her own pocket. The Seller can give a full refund - Item + S/H - which means that Seller is out of his/her original S/H. If the Seller offers to refund the Item price but not the S/H, the Buyer will refuse and complain to the auction, and the auction will refund Buyer 100% of his/her Item + S/H costs - even if the Seller publishes on the auction site that only Item price is refunded in such cases!

A popular scam commonly used by a major corporate auction site Sellers is to blackball any Buyer who leaves them neutral feedback or negative feedback, thereby fraudulently inflating their feedback scores. This has happened to us more than once on this auction site. On this auction site, if the Item is listed as Used, Seller may provide it dirty, unlubricated, rusty, broken and defective not shown in their images nor described. If you complain and leave neutral feedback or negative feedback, the Seller blocks you from bidding on any more of his/her Items instead of learning from the complaint and correcting bad practices. We buy many antique, unusual, rare and precision tools (if you have any such tools you want to sell, please let us know) so we can lease them out to a major customer of ours. Over time, we bought 3 separate tool lots from a tool Seller on this auction site. While the tools were pictured clean and in decent shape in clean surroundings, the tools came filthy, unlubricated, broken, and with deep rust and cracks and other defects not described. Since the tools were not expensive, some were still worth the price. Call us old-fashioned if you will, but we always believe that Sellers who do that to their Buyers are dishonest and disrespectful to their Buyers, so when we sell used tools, we always clean them up, lubricate them and describe all significant defects, if any. In these 3 tool lots, it would have taken the Seller about 10 minutes, a brush and a little alcohol and oil and a few paper towels to provide us the tools in outstanding conditions. But this Seller, typical of this popular auction site, was too lazy to even do that much. Finally after the 3rd lot, after emailing the Seller with no results or even an apology, we were exasperated and posted neutral feedback on him. He then banned us from bidding on his Items. Because he banned us and we were not able to bid on his Items after that, he has lost about $1,000 worth of business from us for his Items we would have won, plus likely another $500 more from his Items we would have lost but would have increased his final prices. Not to mention that he now has the Online reputation of selling dirty, unlubricated, broken, rusty and defective tools, so all of his savvy Buyers now bid less.

Have you also noticed that sometimes when you do an end-of-auction bid, the auction site will tell you that the auction is already over when you know that you still have several seconds to go? Clearly, this happens because certain Items are earmarked for the auction site's big Buyers, insiders and their favored friends, and the auction will not let any larger bids in on time, and will use the "ended auction" ploy to guarantee that their favored Buyers cannot be outbidded no matter what. They often do this by providing you a slow clock so that you think that you still have seconds left to bid when the auction is already over. You can easily prove to yourself that this auction site manipulates their end timer (which kicks in when the time left drops below one hour). Here's what you do: (1) Open up two browser windows side-by-side on the same computer or on different computers. (2) Log onto the auction site with both windows using different IDs. (3) Click on the same particular item of interest. (3) Observe the amount of time left on the auction clocks viewed in both windows. If your experience is like ours, you will notice that the clocks are not identical - not even off by only 1-2 seconds. In our experience - even when using the same computer - the two clocks are consistently off 2-9 seconds, sometimes the difference varying randomly between 2-9 seconds. Even an error of 1 second can make all the difference in you bidding too late, too early or just at the right moment! Why this major auction site feels that it must rip-off its legitimate Buyers by trying to game them may be for the purpose of running a money laundering scheme and/or tax fraud scheme in which the favored Buyer is never sent the Item but the Buyer pays the Seller anyway. Or crooked employees or hackers paid for by crooked Buyers hack into this auction's bidding process. Another cheat tactic that this corporate auction site uses is that after you click on the "place bid button" and the confirm bid page shows up, there is no "confirm bid button" on it, making it impossible for you to place your bid; we've run into this cheat tactic ourselves but it is infrequent. Another sleazy corporate Online auction cheat tactic we have experienced is that the auction refuses to allow you to place your bid even though your bid is higher than the closing bid! Instead, it tells you to bid higher. If you are bidding with only seconds left in the auction, there is no way that you can bid higher - even if you wanted to.

At least one major corporate Online auction site uses a bogus and fraudulent feedback system to entice unwary Buyers into buying from some Sellers with inflated positive feedback scores, and to entice unwary sellers into becoming their Sellers with inflated Buyer positive feedback scores. They do this by not allowing Sellers to leave negative feedback to Buyers - only positive feedback - thereby clearly fraudulently inflating the positive feedback scores of all of their Buyers - including their Sellers who also buy through them. This same auction is now innundated by Buyers with 100% positive feedback, and since Sellers can no longer distinguish good Buyers from crooked and deadbeat Buyers so cannot any longer take steps to protect themselves from crooked Buyers, so must keep their prices artificially high to pay for excessive rip-off losses. And because many of its Sellers also buy a lot on its auction site, their feedback scores are also fraudulently ultra high, so Buyers can no longer distinguish this auction site's good Sellers from its crooked Sellers, and these Sellers no longer have any real incentive in being honest. Their feedback system is clearly so blatantly fraudulent that we are very surprised that some state's Attorney General has not already brought fraud, unfair trade practices and conspiracy charges against them or that disgruntled Buyers have not sued them and/or their Sellers for the same causes of action. Their feedback system is clearly totally statistically meaningless, useless and intentionally deceptive in trying to determine how reliable and honest any Buyer or Seller is who uses their Online auction site, unless you go through the trouble - if even possible - to find out how little or how much the Seller or Buyer buys. In fact, while they heavily promote their feedback system, their feedback system is neither statistically valid nor reliable, nor measures anything. In fact, we repeatedly asked them to mathematically prove the validity and reliability of their feedback system, and they have consistently refused to do so.

Yet another big disadvantage is the vulnerability of Online auction site Sellers are to crooked Buyers and pranksters. For example, we had to limit the number of Items any Buyer could buy from us on eBay to 10 items to prevent pranksters from Buying 100+ Items at a time and not paying for them, resulting in fees and relisting costs - which Online auction site Sellers also pass on to their Buyers. With ABQ Techzonics, if a customer places an order, he/she pays for it in advance and we ship after payment clearance - we are only out the time to reserve inventories until payment clears - which is zero clearance period for customers who pay by Postal M.O. (U.S. or Canada in $US), Western Union, MoneyGram or PayPal. Also, big corporate Online auction sites are so rigid and bureaucratic these days that they have made Sellers vulnerable to crooked Buyers who extort and steal money and Items from them - high crime costs Sellers must also pass onto their Buyers.

As an Online Buyer, if you like being ripped off time and time again, Online auctions are ideal - shill bidding (and counterfeiting, favortism, and other rip-off systems) on some Online auctions are now at virtually epidemic levels (Online searches quickly verifies this). Shill bidding is when Seller (or Seller's relative, employee, friend, etc.), using another ID, bids on his/her own Item to drive up the price by fraudulently generating bidding activity. Shill bidding is also when someone with special knowledge about the Item (e.g. Seller's relative, employee, friend, etc.), which ordinary bidders don't have, bids up an Item to be sure to get it. While the Online auctions publicly protest much against shill bidding and now and then will take well-publicized actions in especially egregious and high-profile cases, Online auctions INTENTIONALLY don't describe what specific shill bidding warning signs Buyers must look out for because in reality they greatly profit from shill bidding and do all they can to secretly encourage it. Here is a complaint filed with an Online auction Seller suspected of shill bidding profiteering which illustrates some clues: 'I suspect that fraudulent bidding / shill bidding was done on this Item. There were 7 bids and 4 bidders, h**1 bidding 4 times. On 2 occasions, it appeared that h**1 was ratchet bidding - bidding up an item in small increments so that a maximum bid is revealed that does not exceed the current highest bidder. When a person bids who seriously wants an Item, they bid the max they are willing to pay for it and don't try to game the system. Also, h**1 highest bid, which we ended up paying $1 more for to win, was $37.99. Serious bidders don't usually bid one penny under the next dollar level - this type of bid is called a 'loser bid.' However, shill bidders do that to get the highest bids because they know that most serious bidders bid at or just over even dollar amounts, so they bid at x.95 - x.99 to force other bidders to overbid increasing their chances of LOSING the Item by bidding x.95 - x.99. Your start bids always start at $14.99 - not $15 - based on similar pricing psychology. Please fully investigate this matter and let us know.' The Seller refused to prosecute this case, citing the self-serving definition of the Online auction site, which defines "shill bidding" as bidding intended to BOTH drive up the Item price AND ALSO intended to create a bidding war, when the actual definition of shill bidding is to either drive up the bid price or to a much lesser extent to buy an Item the Bidder has special knowledge about - it is both totally irrelevant to the Buyer and almost impossible to prove that a shill bidder had intended to create a bidding war, which may or may not occur due to shill bidding, and depends on varying definitions of "bidding war." If you bid Online, check out your auction site's definition of "shill bidding," and if it is like that auction site's definition - never bid again on it because almost certainly the auction site has allowed - even encouraged - shill bidders to rob you and your loved ones! Other shill bidding evidence is feedback scores under about 500, bidder concentration on one Seller (especially for unrelated Items), bidding wars (some bidding wars are not due to shill bidding), and bidder history of multiple bid retractions (bidder bids very high to ferret out highest bid, then retracts his/her bid and then bids (or has someone else bid) just under highest bid). In cases where the shill bidder accidentally wins Items (shill bidding also sometimes used to fraudulently drive up Seller positive feedback), you may see favorable Buyer feedbacks in under about 4 days, and quick relisting of unique Items that sold.

A crooked tactic used by crooked Sellers on a popular Online auction site is to place the same Item more than once within the same time frame and with the same or very similar Titles and Descriptions, to add a very high false sense of value to the Item. Here is an actual example: The Seller listed the same vintage used handtool twice. He, using several alternative Seller IDs, and/or through his friends, bidded up one of these listings to an outrageous $255 before closing. The actual one sold for $41. The actual value of the handtool was about $15. For the phony listing, the shill Buyer then contacts the auction to ask for cancellation by mutual agreement of the sale. The Seller agrees, so the final value fee of the Seller is refunded, so the Seller losses nothing while ripping-off about $26 ($41 - $15).

Another slick Seller fraud tactic run on Online auction sites is the "Wrong Item Scam," especially with more costly items. How this works is that Buyer A buys Item X from the Seller while Buyer B buys Item Y. The Seller instead ships much cheaper items to Buyers A and/or B. A few days later, the Seller emails both Buyers, claiming shock that he/she "accidentally" shipped Item X to Buyer B and Item Y to Buyer A instead. The Seller then says that he/she will totally refund the S/H plus some extra amount to each Buyer, if they mutually agree to ship their wrong Items to the other Buyer on their own. When the Buyers receive their Items, of course they immediately notice that they received the wrong items. But then who do they blame? And who do they complain to? No way of knowing whether they were swindled by the Seller or the other Buyer. Since they can't prove who did the crime, they are left with no recourse. In one variation, they pull this swindle on only the Buyer who bought the most expensive item to more divert the blame to the other Buyer. In another variation, the second Buyer is an accomplice, and when the swindled Buyer doesn't get his/her item back, he's left both empty handed and loses his/her money.

If you have ever experienced trying to report fraud to a corporate Online auction site, you will find that the process is so difficult and excruciating that it may nearly be impossible. Corporate Online auction sites care about one thing and one thing only, THEIR PROFITS. In reality, they could care less about protecting their Buyers or Sellers, or about fighting crimes which occur on or because of their auction websites. They make it virtually impossible to prove fraud on their sites by absolutely minimizing their fraud records. Their first intent is to not scare away any of their fraudulent Sellers and Buyers to maximize participation, and therefore their profits based on their high fees. Their second intent is to minimize all fraud reports so if their fraud records become accessible through legal Discovery, they intend that they be absolutely minimal to reduce their legal risks. And some popular Online auction sites are themselves even bigger frauds than their most crooked Sellers and Buyers. And if you complain, they kick you off in a hearbeat. When was the last time you were able to directly email your corporate Online auction, much less received a response from a real person. They require that you fill out some idiotic Online form which limits how many characters you can type in, and which you will be lucky to obtain a satisfactory response. They also tell you to go to some impotent chat group of theirs to sob along with all the others of their victims, what we call the, "Online auction leper colony" approach to handling corporate complaints.

Frankly, we think that Al Capone is rolling around in his grave saying, "Why didn't we create my own auction site!?" On at least one major corporate Online auction site, criminality is rampant as indicated by Online searches. Before you purchase on an Online auction site, do a search on the site for: "+(scammers,scam artists,swindlers,frauds)". Be sure to search both Title and Description. Last time we checked, there was 12,539 finds! Then click on a good random sampling of these pages to view their complaints. We have found that almost 100% of them have some kind of gripe about crooks operating on their Online auction company's website with impunity. If you park at a store, and while you were approaching the store, you notice through the window that there are thugs inside the store, would you still enter the store? If not, then why would you possibly want to do business with any corporate Online auction site which has about 12,500+ criminal complaints on it? Even if every single one of these related only to Buyers, crooked Buyers can easily work in cahoots with crooked Sellers to jack up auction bids (e.g. shill bidding) and sabotage lower-priced competition. Crime losses by Sellers always get passed onto future Buyers, often resulting in jacked-up prices. Corporate Online auction sites permissively flooded with crooked Buyers are clearly likely to also be permissively flooded with crooked Sellers. Flee from these Online auction sites just as fast as you can!

Yet another big disadvantage of corporate auction sites is the inability of Sellers being able to optimally maintain their description pages and to optimally deal with multiple-item purchases and unusual situations - little or no flexibility to do anything to optimize your business beyond description page formatting. We find that it typically takes us about 25% of our time to place and maintain an Item listing on one of our ABQ Techzonics webpages than it does on an Online auction site, and we don't have to relist after every sale - saving us more time - reducing our costs so we can sell cheaper. Time is money, so all Online auction Sellers must pass on all of this wasted time and relisting fees in the form of more price increases to their Buyers. For Online auction sites, the amount of time that Sellers have to waste trying to deal with the often arbitrary, capricious, crooked and bizarre whims of site managers is often great - all wasted-time costs which Sellers must also pass on to their Buyers.

The CEO of a major corporate Online auction site recently pontificated how he was going to convert his auction site from its nice flea market-like beginnings - which had made the site very successful, fun and profitable for both Buyers and Sellers for about a decade - into a 'big commercial mall' with all the high prices and fees passed onto Buyers, gross invasions of privacy, "global partners," numerous crimes and misrepresentations, despotic mall management, swindling tactics, complexities, inefficiencies, confusions, hidden tricks and traps, constant pop-up and animated ads and spam emails and scam emails, much extra work, and limited selections typical of corrupt and greedy big government and big corporations - and you don't even get a food court!

The former CEO of a major corporate Online auction site - born and raised in the USA - now a near billionaire - recently disclosed that she had not voted in any election in the last several decades! Clearly, that's because her entire loyalty is devoted to her, "global partners" - we all know who those are! John Williams, CEO of ABQ Techzonics, is a Disabled American Veteran who honorably served our Country during a time of war, risked his life and limb and sacrificed his health, blood, sweat and tears - along with all of his band of brothers - many who sacrificed even more by paying the ultimate price in combat - to defend our freedoms, and this arrogant, spoiled, ultra-rich, self-serving jerk who has personally benefited from all of these sacrifices more than 99.9999% of our people - now spits on their great sacrifices! Its lowlife like this who, along with their people, will sell you out to their foreign masters (i.e. "global partners") in a heartbeat, does not deserve one penny of your business ever, can never be trusted with your personal information, and will do everything possible to swindle you or encourage others to swindle you to boost up their profits!

Our ABQ Techzonics webpages are clean, clear, consistently formatted, easy-to-read, banner ads free, pop-up ads free, and malware-free. Many of our images have 2+ times the resolution plus 2+ times the area of the small images you get from some Online auction sites. And our Item descriptions are more detailed and comprehensive than typical of Online auction site Item descriptions. More information is available for small electronic components (especially ICs, transistors, diodes) through electronic datasheets and electronic databases for integrated circuits, transistors, diodes, etc.

And unlike Online auction sites, ABQ Techzonics of Albuquerque, NM, does not try to blast you with ads filled with garish or moving images which harass you every page you visit.

Sellers must make a modest profit to stay in business, but you don't have to pay for the obscene profits of Online auction sites and Online malls any longer! These days, no one has extra money to waste. Through ABQ Techzonics - in business for 30+ years as Consumertronics - we sell our Items cheaper and with more varieties than ever before, respecting your privacy, and with more versatility in reducing YOUR costs (Item prices + S/H) for good-customer quantity and multiple-Item orders. We try to be fair to both our customers and us. Check with us first. And bookmark this page, print it out and tell your friends - spread the good word about ABQ Techzonics! And tell them the truth about Online auctions and Online malls.

We are a large and growing high-tech Online Superstore: We have 1,000,000 ICs (1,000 different IC part #s, most ICs not listed yet). Plus we have 1,000,000 other electronic parts - transistors, diodes, inductors, capacitors, etc. (also most of our electronic parts not listed yet). Plus we have tons of non-electronic and electronic equipment, tools, components, and special materials to meet your needs be they business or professional (commercial, shop, industrial, scientific, laboratory), or personal (home, hobbies, birthday gifts, Christmas gifts, etc.). As we are constantly listing new tech stuff and expanding, please regularly visit our ABQ Techzonics Superstore website, bookmark this site, print it out, save it, and tell your friends!

Interested in integrated circuits (ICs)? It does not make logical sense for you to check out Online auctions first before visiting ABQ Techzonics IC electronic parts because our selection size of ICs is comparable (and growing) to the numbers of different electronic parts numbers offered on even the biggest Online auction for electronic parts, many of our integrated circuits and transistors are not even available on it, and our topical webpages are not swamped with 10s - 100s of duplicates of the same Item you often must waste your valuable time wading through ever-changing Online auction sites. Our studies show that about 1/3 of our integrated circuits and transistor offers were for electronic parts not found on eBay, for example, for searches of titles, descriptions in both eBay auctions and eBay stores. (The figures were about 1/2 for inductors, capacitors, transformers, tools, electronic test equipment and electrical equipment, about 3/4 for valves and collectibles, and about 9/10 for technical books and manuals). Check us out first!

Another important consideration is that even if you find your Item on an Online auction today, the same/similar item may vanish a day later. On most Online auctions, sale listings constantly expire, Sellers constantly change their categories/descriptions/prices/quantities, and Sellers come and go. On ABQ Techzonics, the same Item is much, much more likely in one place giving YOU a more dependable supply now and into the future, usually close to same price, no Item sale "expires," and no losses or changes in Sellers; therefore, on ABQ Techzonics, while we can't guarantee later availabilities as some items do sell out, on the average, our Items stay longer and at much more predictable and often lower prices than on Online auction sites - especially when it comes to electronic parts and electronic test equipment.

And when you buy from ABQ Techzonics, the Item is shipped fast - you don't have to nervously wait until an auction closes - as much as 10 days with some Online auctions - and you don't have to worry about being snipe-outbidded seconds from close - leaving you empty-handed.

Unlike Online auction sites and malls, ABQ Techzonics can freely engage in pricing deals and bartering transactions with our good customers. Should you have Items we want - especially small electronic parts, electronic test equipment, scientific equipment, precision tools, modern computer equipment, and some rare, antique, unusual and even weird Items - possibly even devices they build or assemble themselves - we will buy from or trade with you. Since we do much of our prototyping work here using DIP/DIL ICs and other electronic components with leads - even if we do use and sell surface-mount versions of them - we are also interested in buying or trading for small electronic parts with leads. A transaction with ABQ Techzonics can leave you both with Items you much need from ABQ Techzonics and cash in your pockets! Interested in trading or selling Items with us? Then Contact Us: wizguru with a description of what you want to trade or sell to us, what you want for it, and your name and shipping address (put "Items to Trade/Sell Inquiry" in email Subject line) (please do not phone us). We are mostly interested in the types of tech Items we sell on this website. Do not ship anything to us unless and until you and us first come to a mutual agreement in writing. Tell your friends - they can benefit from this also. Whatever you do, do not trash or give away to a "recyler" electronic components without checking with us first at ==> Trade-Buy Offers.

Thanks. Please return to our homepage: ABQ Techzonics. John J. Williams, M.S.E.E.

P.S.: We are very interested in obtaining the contact phone numbers and extensions of the various popular Online auction sites as we are considering republishing this listed data on this site sometime in the future. We already have some contact eBay phone numbers and extensions, but they may be old numbers. You may provide us this data - or any other data - about Online auction sites anonymously if you wish, just as long as the data is factual to the best of your knowledge and beliefs and relates to the fair or unfair treatment of their Buyers and Sellers, and document if possible. Thanks. John

ABQ TECHZONICS (Albuquerque, NM) OFFERS: ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS, ELECTRONIC PARTS, ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS, Integrated Circuits (ICs), Transistors, Diodes, Rectifiers, LEDs, Capacitors, Resistors, Potentiometers (Pots), Varistors, Inductors, Coils, Transformers, Speakers, Relays, Switches, Actuators, Fuses, Circuit Breakers, Crystals, Oscillators, Connectors, Headers, Sockets, Pins, Wires, Cables, Displays, Photo, Video, Laser, Power, other Electronic Parts / Electronic Components; EQUIPMENT, Electronic Test Equipment, Electrical Equipment, Computers, Peripherals, Electric Tools, Hand Tools, Tool Chests; MORE TECH STUFF, Scientific/Industrial Valves, Fittings, Security, Survival, Radionics, Crafts, Hobbies, Strange & Unusual, Religious & Spiritual, Collectibles; Hardware, Devices, Parts, Special Materials, Books, Manuals, Software.

SOURCES OF ITEMS ABQ TECHZONICS SELLS: Surplus, online auctions, hamfests, private sales, business moving sales, overstocks, job lots, wholesale lots, estate sales, garage sales, thrift shops, charity auctions, flea markets, hardware trades, abandoned storage, lost & found property sales, discontinued items, obsolete items, warehouse inventory updates, excess inventories, liquidations, business closures and out-of-business sales, foreclosure sales, bankruptcies, and government auctions / government sales, salvage.

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