You don't mean to be confrontational??? Well you certainly are. Everything in my post is true with 1 mistake. When I said he was on invoice 5008, I meant that is where he was when I ordered the radio. So, if you don't like hearing the truth about something that's got you all butt hurt...get over it Mr. my opinion rules.
Lomchivok,
Im sure there used to be quite a few people who said, "oh Hitler? hell of a guy! we get along great!" and they may have been correct according to their personal experience with the man.
Those same people would have had a hard time believing all the negative things about him unless they'd seen it for themselves, and might believe that those negative statements were just sour grapes.
As time went by though, every single one of those people would have to either accept that what they heard on the news and around town, or shut themselves off from listening to it, instead choosing to believe what they themselves experienced.
do you see where im going with this?
The problems with Mark Sherman have been going on a long time, and there is just too much overwhelming evidence that goes against your opinion of him for any of us to just let it all go and believe that he's just a misunderstood person.
I will tell you something that i KNOW to be true, but you might have a hard time accepting. The fact that Mark Sherman treats you with respect means that he doesn't think you are too bright.
Mark very carefully "vets" the people he sells radios to and if you show the slightest knowledge of how a radio works he will not sell to you.
he ONLY sells radios to people that he can manipulate and control in order to maintain his small army of people who will defend him whenever and wherever he is attacked.
examples of this are all over the internet.
heck, half the people reading this thread already believe that you are here at his request.
i'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say that you just don't feel right believing something you've read online as opposed to speaking with the person directly.
so you can either choose to seek out the proof that what im about to tell you is true, or you can just stay where you are and believe what you already do.
that's up to you and whether or not you are interested in the possibility that you've been hoodwinked.
there is another reason Mark goes to such great lengths to make sure he only sells radios to people who don't know how they work inside.
That is how he tries to make sure no one who does know this stuff can get ahold of one of his radios and figure out what he is and isn't doing in order to make them "fine tuned".
i mean, why do you think he's talked on the phone to you for so long? Do you really think it's because he wants to be your friend? or could it be that he's trying to glean information from you in order to make a judgement on whether or not you'll betray him and hand his radio to another shop to look at?
(your story is not uncommon by any means)
Well his method did work for a while, but eventually one of his radios made it into the hands of someone that figured out exactly what he did to the radios he sells.
he makes a component change to fool the AGC section of the radio (there's videos on youtube of what this actually does and it's not good) and he changes a couple other components to open up the bandwidth of the receive and transmit audio.
all in all, about a dollar in parts and 15 minutes to make his famous "fine tune" that he charges you up the wazoo for. and you end up with a radio that works worse than a stock 955.
please take some time to do your own research instead of just believing the con man himself. He thinks you're too uneducated about radio to do that and he's counting on it.
you're just a little late to this party.
best of luck,
LC