yeh, I guess if you want to call china, and if you know how to speak 
chinese, you could probably order by phone...but i've never seen a chinese 
retailer offer a phone number to call.
Email really is the most efficient and safest way to order anything.
You generally pay via paypal which is the safest online payment option 
availible.
Think about it though, really, is giving your credit card to a complete 
stranger over the phone line as secure as a trusted, incripted private and 
totally secure online payment where the vender doesn't even see or know your 
credit card info?
and, where each payment is kept via an electronic record and you have a 
secure method of getting your money refunded if you do not receive your item 
or if you have problems with the item when it arrives and the vender won't 
work with you.
do you have those secure and solid options if you call someone you don't 
know, give them your credit card info and just hope they don't decide to use 
it for their own gains?
Especially over seas where american credit card companies may not be able to 
work with local authorities to find the person and prosecute or get your 
money back?
seems to make a whole lot more sence to me to be more secure, rather than 
less.
I wouldn't buy anything online unles it was payed for via paypal or another 
trusted third party credit card middle man.
regards
Colin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Stevenson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: Links to Wouxun radio


> How about phone numbers?
>
> Doesn't any one else like to order by phone,
> and ask questions to a person by voice?
>
> Thanks much again as always.
>
> 73
> wb6 yoy
>
> (650) 604-5720