[ARC5] Crazy Collectors

[Brian Clarke]

Hello Wayne,
I'm with you on this one. Let the economists with their demand curves and 
the accountants with their costings be tarred and feathered. We're talking 
pure emotional worth, something of which economists and accountants cannot 
conceive.
73 de Brian, VK2GCE.

On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 1:44 PM, Wayne said:


>A buyer for one item I sold on ebay - the original manual for an R-388, I 
>think it was - told me that he knew of a couple guys who discovered a 
>warehouse full of WWII vintage radio equipment that was going to be sold 
>off or destroyed.  But they figured that the stuff they already had would 
>be worth more if there was less of it, so they let it all be scrapped.
>
> So I guess you have a half dozen BC-611's and a warehouse with 200 of them 
> NIB is discovered, you'd rather they be scrapped than have the value of 
> yours go down when the market gets flooded.  Funny, the way some people 
> think.
>
> Me, I'd rather buy them for $1 each and give them away than let them be 
> scrapped.
>
> Wayne