[ARC5] Dolt Alert (was: Drool alert)

[J. Forster]

People look at eBay and sites like WorthPoint.

If you had a box of old baseball cards, and offered them to me, I might
pay $2/ea on a lark. Some might be worthless, some worth $100,000 or more.

The point is, it takes an expert to tell the difference.

There are many 'rag pickers' on eBay, as well as people that liquidate
estates, and 'seller's assistants'.

Some know their stuff, many don't.

And, as with all things, you don't ask, you don't get. And it's a lot
easier to reduce your asking price than raise it.

YMMV,

-John

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> ----- Original Message -----
> Subject: [ARC5] Drool alert
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>> A whole raft of notable auctions in the last few days.
>> This seller has 2 (two!!) of them this time and well worth our
>> attention.
>> eBay item number:
>> 271427461230
>> eBay item number:
>> 380865808565
>
> I have always wondered how these people set their prices
> and if they have any idea how foolish they look.
> A BC-459 looks almost the same as a T-17 ARC-5,
> so it must be worth $500, right??
> How about his Hammarlund HX-500 for $3200?
> These people frustrate me.
> Like the guy who found the bunch of "big iron" Navy transmitters
> still in the crates and, because he could not sell them
> for $10,000 each (and got nasty if you said anything to him),
> reportedly sold them for scrap out of pure spite.
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