[AMRadio] Mini warehouse antique radio auction

[Jim Wilhite]

I wonder how well it will do too Bernie.  That market seems to be a small 
niche market and they have a big show and auction in Houston once per year. 
It is my understanding that is the best place to sell that type of 
equipment.

I hope the man does well, but I would put it in a trailer and take it to 
that show.  I forget who sponsors the thing but a friend who fixes those 
things says it is a big show and sale.  I kind of doubt there will be that 
many interested parties locally, but one never knows.

Jim
W5JO


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>I would not touch this with a ten foot pole, he has apparently advertized 
>this as an auction and then canceled because you convinced him that they 
>could get more money. What next, fake bidding for more money?  Reminds me 
>of a nearby raffle two years ago, they had a new Harley and at the date for 
>the drawing decided that they did not sell enough tickets, so they extended 
>the date, believe that was done twice.  Sounds like fraud to me.  I wonder 
>if that is even legal?  W8RPW
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ron Lawrence" <w4ron at carolina.rr.com>
> To: <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 1:28 PM
> Subject: [AMRadio] Mini warehouse antique radio auction
>
>
>>
>>
>> Do you watch Storage Wars on TV, the show about mini warehouse auction?
>> If you're like me you watch it a dream about going to one someday and 
>> them opening up an abandoned warehouse and it be full of antique radios.
>>
>> Well that very thing has happened. a few weeks ago I was contacted by the 
>> owner of a mini warehouse located just off US 1 between Southern Pines 
>> and Raleigh NC.
>> He was having a warehouse auction and when he popped the lock and raised 
>> the door he saw a warehouse almost full of antique radios. Thanks 
>> goodness he had the good sense to close the door and refuse to sell it 
>> that day.
>> At first he wanted to sell it all for one money, I convinced him that he 
>> would be loosing a lot of money, he'd just get pennies for the radios 
>> that way and it'd still be tough to sell it because who's got the space 
>> for 75-80 radios and the way to move them.
>>
>> I've convinced him to let me help him have a radio auction right there on 
>> site, I'd put the word out to the antique radio community, build him a 
>> web page with lots of photos and let the radio group come there and bid 
>> on the radios.
>> So this is what is going to happen. We haven't set a hard date yet, we're 
>> looking at a Saturday in early October, maybe the third Saturday, he has 
>> family conflicts that cut down on to available days.
>>
>> Here the URL to the web page showing what we have so far;
>>
>> http://reidgreene.homestead.com/index1.html
>>
>> As soon as a hard date is set I'll spread to word but it will be on a 
>> Saturday and likely start at about 10am with viewing starting at 8am.
>>
>> Right now this is all I know, as more details are firmed up I'll let
>> everyone know.
>>
>> I'm planning to go down there in the next week or so and help him move 
>> them around so we can see more stuff cause there's a lot of radios 
>> covered up by other radios.
>>
>> As soon as a hard date is set I'll spread to word but it will be on a 
>> Saturday and likely start at about 10am with viewing starting at 8am.
>> Right now this is all I know, as more details are firmed up I'll let
>> everyone know.
>>
>>