[ARC5] Dolt Alert

[Michael Buckley]

John

IO had a similar experience at W&P Show some years ago.

Prices drop as the show goes on, if items don't sell.

I saw something on Witham 's stall I thought would be interesting, so 
made an offer of £10 and was told to get lost!
Next day, the last, I again looked and got 3 of them for £5!!

)Item VRQ301 I think - interface for the Clansman PRC351 vehicle 
installation)

Cheers

Mike

On 19/03/2014 02:02, J. Forster wrote:
> 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
>
> ===================
>
>
>
>> 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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