[AMRadio] Mini warehouse antique radio auction

Tue Aug 27 18:48:38 EDT 2013

I can assure you all that there's NO fraud here. 
It's going to be a straight up open absolute auction.
We're just trying to get these radios into the hands of the
members of the antique radio community. 
I was offered the contents of the mini warehouse for just the
amount of unpaid rent but I couldn't do anything with them, who
could handle that many pieces, it would take a big truck to haul
them away and then renting another warehouse to store them in.
I convinced the owner of the facility that an auction to sell
them to collectors would be the best way to dispose of them.
He just wants them of of his warehouse so he can rent it to
someone else. Nothing shady going on at all.

I wouldn't be involved if there was, I'm too well known in the
antique radio collector world to get involved in anything that
was crooked.

Ron W4RON

---- Bernie  Doran <qedconsultants at embarqmail.com> wrote: 
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > 73, RON w4ron
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