[ARC5] Dolt Alert (was: Drool alert)

[J. Forster]

People are funny monkeys. They take offense if you offer what something is
really worth, if they think it's woorth a lot mor.

Example (I've told this before). There was a local auction of a company w/
a chemistry lab, maybe 40 years ago. They had a storeroom of fancy
glassware, much of it very pretty, but very special. This was before the
web, BTW.

I went to the auction and nobody wanted the glassware. The auctioneer
started at $5000 or something close to that. Eventually he said 'any
offers'. I offered him a couple of hundred, I think. He cussed me out and
said he'd throw it in the dumpster before selling it to me at that price.
So I left....

And came back when the auction was over, and filled my car w/ unbroken
pieces from the dumpster....   for free. Actually I got more new glassware
 than I could ever use. BTW, many of the items are still in the new
cataogs.

Who REALLY won?

-John

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> On 18 Mar 2014 at 16:46, David Stinson wrote:
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> Subject: [ARC5] Drool alert
>>
>>
>> > 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.
>
> IMHO, not one darned one of them will do ANY research. They won't even
> look at "Completed Auctions". They appear to think that if it is WWII it
> is
> worth a mint.
>
>> 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.
>
> "Frustrate" isn't the word I would choose to describe my feelings about
> these
> idiots.
>
>> 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.
>
> Yes. I and another list member was involved in that. What a total waste!
> They were worth, maybe, $400.00 each, and yes, they were NIB. But who
> today would want a Navy transmitter that used 860s?
>
> The guy got really, really snotty with my friend, who took the trouble to
> drive
> all the way to the sellers QTH to try to talk with him about them.
>
> Reminds me of when I was a kid and found a new Model "A" Ford engine in
> a junk yard. The owner wanted $500.00 for it, and it was worth, at the
> time,
> about $50.00. He smashed it up with a sledge hammer when no one would
> buy it at that price.
>
> These people are just plain crazy.
>
> Ken W7EKB
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> Kenneth G. Gordon W7EKB
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