[ARC5] Managing Yiour Colection, WAS Item 300447369243

[Don Merz]

The only caveat I would add is this: Unless you are moving or retiring or are 
doing something stupid--like paying rent on a storage unit, I would not sell 
right now. The market for hard goods of all kinds just sucks. Collins and the 
popular military gear including command sets will get good money, and the best 
of the best will get good money. But the rest will go begging. BIG items will go 
begging a LONG time.

Shipping costs will kill a lot of deals. Your buyer will automatically subtract 
the shipping cost in his mind from the value of the item. You can "charge them 
shipping" but actually you are the one who ends up paying in the form of a 
reduced price for your item.  

So if you don't have to sell now, maybe you should wait and pray for a better 
economy. Will the economy get better in our lifetimes? I dunno...

Bottom line, if you must sell right now, control your price expectations--think 
"hamfest prices". If you can get what you paid for it, you have done well.

Good luck.
73, Don merz, N3RHT



----- Original Message ----
From: John Watkins <jpwatkins9 at yahoo.com>
To: Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment. <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Fri, July 23, 2010 11:03:39 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Managing Yiour Colection, WAS Item 300447369243

Hi All,

I have been planning to "thin the herd" for a couple of years as soon as I get 
back to Texas for good.  I don't have a huge collection, but I definitely have 
some stuff I will never get to.  


My point is that even if you don't have a warehouse full of stuff, why not take 
a good hard look at what you do have and reduce it to a manageable size.  After 
all, if you aren't going to be able to "get to it"  why not let some one else 
put it to use.  I currently have an excess of receivers 2 RF 550s, and R-390A, a 
R-1051 my Kenwood TS-930 (receiver is general coverage)US-9 (Russian BC-348)+ 
others etc.  I can't listen to all at once and will be getting rid of some next 
year (if'n the creek don't rise.  Also have other stuff (all treasures)that will 
be getting a hard look.

Cheers,

John  WD5ENU/A45XV

--- On Fri, 7/23/10, swkb4dmf at windstream.net <swkb4dmf at windstream.net> wrote:

> From: swkb4dmf at windstream.net <swkb4dmf at windstream.net>
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Managing Yiour Colection, WAS Item 300447369243
> To: Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net, "Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio 
>equipment." <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Friday, July 23, 2010, 9:28 PM
> 
> Don wrote:
>  
> > I would advise you to "manage" you radio "holdings"
> the same way you manage your 
> > investment portfolio. 
> 
> Very sound advise Don!! And that's coming from one who has
> and is still experiencing it first hand. I am almost done
> settling the estate of N4VMY. It has taken two years of
> spare time and a lot of trips to hamfest's and countless
> hours typing ebay descriptions. It netted $18,000 for the
> widow, for whom I was happy to do it. Bill and I had a long
> standing agreement that we would do this for the other if
> anything happened to one of us.
> I came to all the same conclusions you listed plus one;
> never ever ask anyone to do this same thing for me. I'm not
> complaining, I would do it again for Bill because he would
> have done it for me, but I now choose to do it for myself
> over the next few years.
> 
> Steve
> KB4DMF
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