Another way of getting rid of TEPs

lw395 said:
Worryingly, if you look at 'completed listings' some people are actually buying them...
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I raised this here last year and was told by some of this parish that I should mind my own business. I didn't and raised it with eBay who were shocked and promptly told the seller to desist.
I'm guessing they have changed the name to "signals" to try and avoid getting spotted by eBay again.

Edit: looks like the same lot as before. This is a new account that has only been on Ebay since December last year.
 
So not only is the O.P. taking the unwise step of "re stocking" his own liferaft but he is doing it with expired pyro as well.
Please put a sign on yopur vessel and keep 200 metres distance.
 
Strikeliner said:
So not only is the O.P. taking the unwise step of "re stocking" his own liferaft but he is doing it with expired pyro as well.
Please put a sign on yopur vessel and keep 200 metres distance.
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To be fair, OP hasn't actually said he's buying any, only drawing attention to the advert.

Another question is where are these expired "signals" coming from. Could it be a service centre by-passing proper disposal by letting "a mate" sell them on the internet?
 
Ebay specifically ban the advertising of flares, and I expect to see these adverts removed. Same seller has lots of different adverts, all for flares, miscalled signals.
 
I had also alerted them before I posted, and thought all his adverts had been taken down, as the ones I had saved in my watch list vanished, but now seem to be back again!
See this list. The seller has 17 items listed, 14 of which are flares.
 
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Strikeliner said:
So not only is the O.P. taking the unwise step of "re stocking" his own liferaft but he is doing it with expired pyro as well.
Please put a sign on yopur vessel and keep 200 metres distance.
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My liferaft had reached 12 years old and the idea of servicing every year palled so I opened and inflated it. The packing is hardly rocket science (I hope) and as a pandemic past-time I thought I would try to find sources for cylinder hydraulic testing and flares other than packs. The eBay reference I found is gob-smacking in its concept (+ 1st Class post), worthy, I thought of sharing. Whether I continue with the raft is my choice but at least I would improve on the licenced, manufacturer approved, service station whose seasick pills and handhelds expiry dates were before the service was due - I am not impressed!
 
I bought a couple of slightly TEP's from that supplier, they work fine and are nice and cheap. If you are desperate to conform to every rule and regulation, and suffer from a nervous disposition, then go and get ripped off by a chandler.
 
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Ohlin Karcher said:
I bought a couple of slightly TEP's from that supplier, they work fine and are nice and cheap. If you are desperate to conform to every rule and regulation, and suffer from a nervous disposition, then go and get ripped off by a chandler.
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This started my morning with a smile.

Surely to find out if they work fine you have to use them. Once used they aren't any use, if you see what I mean.

One problem with flares is they work only once, so we have to take on faith that they will work in an emergency. I wouldn't have much faith that time expired flares bought from a dodgy operator were going to work when I needed them.

In saying the above I'm not even considering regulatory compliance where the rules of some countries and / or some classes of vessels require flares to be in date and where port authorities like to do spot checks.
 
Ohlin Karcher said:
I bought a couple of slightly TEP's from that supplier, they work fine and are nice and cheap. If you are desperate to conform to every rule and regulation, and suffer from a nervous disposition, then go and get ripped off by a chandler.
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I have some recently TEPs - all tested and worked fine - I'd be happy to post them to you 1st Class for only £5 each. You could have a choice of parachute, hand-held or smoke.
 
Strikeliner said:
Cunningly the pyro peddlar is now offering a line thrower ............."appliance does not come with line?????
Now if you've never fired one of these, well boy do they go with a bang? Just the thing for the away end on a Saturday. I don't think.
K-19 LINE THROWING APPLIANCE KORYO | eBay
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Tempting, just the thing to repel pirates! You could make quite a naughty weapon from a schermuly rocket with a bit of tube.
Hypothetically of course.
 
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