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Nixie Gone Bad? The nixie clock engineering community is a small one.
With the recent seller proliferation, bad experiences can happen. At the beginning of November 2006, I received a "holiday"
offer by email offering to sell me a newly designed version would be delivered in time to be presented as gifts for Christmas 2006. The total for my purchase was approximately $650.00. Ray asked that I mail a check for the purchase amount to his Credit Union account located in California, rather than paying through his online website payment handler: http://usd.swreg.org/ I promptly mailed the check out on Nov 6 2006. In 2002, I purchased one of Ray's second generation Four Letter Word Nixie Clock kits, and it was promptly delivered after payment was made. I had no reason to suspect this would not be the case with another order. At the beginning of December 2006 I sent an email to check the shipping status. Ray made a few excuses for delays he was experiencing, and hinted shipping might be delayed. He noted the order volume was much less than expected for sales of this new model FLW and GeekKlok. He was now unable to deliver on time, and did not offer to return my $650 check. Christmas 2006 came and passed. No clocks. Three emails in January to Ray at: sales-_-@zetalink.biz went unanswered. What's going on here? hmmm... I'm now becoming a little suspicious. Was I just scammed out of $650.00? For those folks who might be unaware of this, a Yahoo nixie group (NEONIXIE-L) was established in January 2002 to serve as a forum for those individuals who are interested in vintage nixie tubes, and the instruments that used them. Ray initiated this yahoo list group, so I figured it would be the best place to begin looking for any news about him. I suspected my recent adventure with Raymond Weisling was not too uncommon, and I visited the nixie list group to view their archives for similar situations. Unfortunately, there were very recent posts from nixie list members for non-delivery of already paid for products from Ray Weisling, and with a few now dating back over TWO YEARS. Over many months, Ray has posted messages to the yahoo nixie list explaining his dire financial situation caused by various uncontrollable events. And they grew in crisis level with each new posting. It became apparent he had already deleted critical postings made to the nixie list in past months by unhappy victims. Yet he continued to accept money for payment of items he was advertizing as for sale, and not delivering. Ray's Zetalink.biz sales website is still active. Go ahead, send him your money... Of course, if you ask him, he'll say he can ship the item at some near date in the future. Go ahead, plenty of folks fall victim to the Nigerian 419 scams. But don't come whining to me if your clock or kit never arrives as promised. He has deluded himself into believing he will actually ship these prepaid products some day. I'm certain he meant well at some point in the past. It simply got out of control, and now owes far too much to produce / ship these orders. Shame on you Ray. Stop accepting money for items you do not deliver. I decided that since I didn't receive the $650 in products already paid for, I would try to warn others about him. Please let me know you are also a victim of Raymond Weisling and his ecommerce site Zetalink.biz As of 05-15-07, I have received eleven (11) responses from individuals who have paid for Geek Kloks or FLW's as kits and have not received them. Each has waited more than a year, with one waiting nearly three years for their paid-for kit. Ray no longer responds to their emails asking for a delivery date. A Nixie Gone Bad? I'll leave that up to you to decide.
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