NetShops Acquires RadarBusters

Back in 1977, at twenty seven years old, I started my law enforcement career with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in Phoenix Arizona. After a brief stint working the jails, I was transferred to a small community located sixty five miles northwest of Phoenix called Wickenburg.
The beat area that I covered was a little larger then Rhode Island and there were several major highways that linked Las Vegas and Los Angles to the Phoenix area that crossed my beat.
After my transfer to Wickenburg, traffic enforcement became a major concern for my agency and I was selected to attend a traffic radar instructor course. It was at this point that my interest in radar and other traffic enforcement devices was formed.
During my twenty year career, moving through the rank of Lieutenant and assignments such as white color crime and narcotics, I trained over 1000 police officers in the proper use of traffic enforcement equipment that included radar, Vascar and laser.
On a number of occasions I would stop a motorist that had one of those advertised “radar scramblers” you often here advertised on the radio or on other websites promising “no more tickets”. The drivers were often shocked when I showed them that their “radar jammer was effective as placing a rock on their dashboard.
After my retirement I began a website development company and began designing websites for other customers.
One evening to get some web design practice, I made an informational website about police radar, radar detectors and jammers and registered the domain RadarBusters.com
One of my first web design customers wanted to sell rocks on the Internet, when I asked why would anyone be so foolish to do this he explained. He started a company that made fiberglass rocks for lawn decoration and he wanted an online presence to sell his fiberglass rocks.
I charged the customer $500.00 for his website that included a shopping cart. Six months later a major retailer approached the company asking them to make custom rocks that they could sell in their nationwide stores. He moved his operation to Washington state, trained 75 employees and he became an online success.
During this same period I had another customer approach me telling me that she wanted to sell dirt on the Internet. Puzzled I asked why. She explained that her family owned a kitty litter mine and one of the bi-products could be mixed with yogurt and used as a face cream. I said why not, charged her $500.00 and she also became an online success in six months.
It was at this point that I re-evaluated my goals. Was I going to make websites for other customers so they could make money, or was I going to create my own killer website so I could make a little more money. The choice was simple,  I was going to develop the best website in the industry that provided information about radar detectors, jammers, traffic enforcement and pick the cream of the crop and sell those items online.
In four years of testing, writing reviews, and putting the customer first, RadarBusters.com grew to be the leading website for the speed countermeasure industry.
Since the inception of Radar Busters, I have taken pleasure in meeting and working with others in the industry assisting them develop their own products such as Aaron at Legal Speeding, Leon at Blinder and Robert at the Veil Corporation,  Don at Beltronics, and countless others in the industry.
I also have enjoyed working with all the radar detector enthusiasts such as the “Guys of Lidar” and other members of the radardetector.net forum.
Lastly I owe a great amount of gratitude to Carl Fors at Speed Measurement Laboratories who took me under his wing early on and allowed me as a retailer to participate in his annual radar detector shoot out in El Paso for all these years and to Bill Peck from Peck’s Web who gave birth to the “Radar Roy” idea.
Several months ago I was approached by NetShops who had an interest in acquiring Radarbusters and the associated websites that included radarjammer.com and radardetector.net.
I told them that I would be interested under several conditions. One, that I could remain as a consultant to their company and provide to them testing information about various products in the industry for publication on their websites. Two, that they continue to provide a high level of customer support to the clients and Three, that I meet with them and tour their operation so I knew that they could meet my concerns.
Last month I came out to Omaha and toured their operation and all I can say is their customer support, call station, warehouse, and their people are all above reproach. They are a top notch team that can I feel can take Radarbusters to the next level.
I’m excited as a new chapter of my life opens and still being involved in the industry as a consultant with a company with the high caliber and integrity as NetShops.

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FCC vs Rocky Mountain Radar – Round II

On April 2nd and 3rd, the Federal Communications Commission started round two with a new round of citations against dealers who sell the RMR C450 and the RMR-S201.
Recently Cited were the following companies:
Chumbo.com
Chumbo Corporation
221 North First Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401
(Products still on website)
www.compsource.com
Mr. Dean Balone
CompSource, Inc.
3241 Superior Ave., E
Cleveland, Ohio 44114-4344
(Removed Products)
Cybergiftcenter.com
Mr. Wazirali Moosa
Cybergiftcenter.com, Inc.
1810 Peachtree Industrial Blvd.
Duluth, Ga. 30097-8180
(Removed Products)
Dealznet.com
1643 McDonald Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11230-6310
(Removed Products)
Mr. Mike Waggener
DSMiller.com
1580 N. East Silver Lake Road
Traverse City, Michigan 49684-8030
(Products still on website)
www.fadfusion.com
Mr. Trevor Roy Nicholas
Fadfusion
5306 Vine Avenue
Affton, Missouri 63123
(Removed Products)
www.Focuscamera.com
Mr. Anthony Berkowitz, President
Focus Camera, Inc.
905 McDonald Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11218
(Removed Products)
www.TheElectronicCompany.com
Mr. Jatinder Grewal, President
North Star Electronics, dba TheElectronicCompany.com
187 Stanley Street
Elk Grove Village, Illinois 60007
(Removed Products)
www.ambientweather.com
Mr. Ed Edelman, Owner
Ambient Weather
9365 S. McKemy Street, Suite 104
Tempe, Arizona 85284
(Removed Products)
www.audio-direct.com
Mr. Paul Graeme
Audio Direct
460 West Roger Road, Suite 105
Tucson, Arizona 85705
(Products still on website)
www.audiodiscounters.com
Mr. Jeffrey Selby
Audio Discounters
2892 Prairie Drive
Lewis Center, Ohio 43035
(Removed Products)
Buy.com
Mr. Neel Grover, CEO and President
Buy.com
85 Enterprise, Suite 100
Aliso Viejo, California 92656
(Still on website)
Found in violation from round one of citations, the FCC has indicated that the following companies will be fined $11,000 for each day continued sale
www.rocky-mountain-radar.com
www.radar-robs-rocky-mountain-scramblers.com
Mr. Roland W. Hoeffener
Hoeffener International
625 Mildred Avenue, Apt.7
Webster Groves, MO 63119-1836
(Still on website)
www.auto-radar-detectors.com
Mr. Arturo Mendez, Vice President
Auto-Radar-Detectors.com
5804 Babcock Road, Suite 190
San Antonio, Texas 78240
(Removed Products)
BestRadarDetectors.net
Mr. Thomas Milone
Best Radar Detectors
21 Brittany Lane
Jackson, New Jersey 08527-4866
(Removed Products)
Mr. Austin Hilton, President
Hilton, AG, LTD
Radar Detectors Direct
916 113th Street, Suite B
Arlington, Texas 76011
www.carwaves.com
www.jammercity.com
www.ismellbacon.com
Mr. Harlan E. Gauger, Jr.
Electronic Retail Solutions, Inc.
5601 Roanne Way, Suite 608
Greensboro, North Carolina 27409
(Still on website)
Radarjammers.com
Mr. Allen Kent, President
Post Office Box 588
Rolla, Missouri 65402
(Still on website)
www.ceipro.com
Ms. Doris J. Conway
Global Trade Group, Inc.
P.O. Box 783
Rogue River, Oregon 97537
(Still on website)
On RadarJammers.com they have posted this notice:
HURRY WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!!!!!!!
The FCC is again trying to shut us down. This time they do state our RMR-C450 Phantom and RMR-S201 Phazer II units work; “intentionally interferes with a licensed radio service (police radar), and are indeed capable of interfering with police radar.” Radar Roy and his cronies wrote letters to your senators and congressmen saying how are units are a scam and don’t work but in order for the FCC to do anything they had to test our products (again) which they had already certified as FCC legal, but now they had to admit that our units work (jam) to do something about it. Isn’t it ironic that Radar Roy with all his derogatory advertising toward our products stating our products don’t work has to admit that they do jam to force us out of business. sssshhhhhhhh!
Things Starting to Get Hot for you Mike??
Then think about selling radar detectors and jammers that actually work!

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