[ARC5] How Did This Happen?

[Dennis Monticelli]

Good going, Ken.  If one shops carefully and are willing to lose quite a
few auctions, bargains can be had.

I have found that summer is usually good for eBay bargains because some
bidders are out of town.  Another good time is the Christmas/New Years/Jan
time-frame when buyers have max'd out their credit cards and taken an oath
not to spend more.

Dennis AE6C

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com
> wrote:

> On 23 Oct 2014 at 8:42, Dennis Monticelli wrote:
>
> > I think eBay is the most "efficient" value setting tool available because
> > it brings together so many buyers and sellers and publishes the results
> for all
> > to see.  Having said that, any time you have a small statistical
> population of
> > interested buyers (I think our command sets qualify), there are going to
> be some
> > statistical outlying data points beyond the norm such as two must-have
> buyers
> > locking horns or the small buying community not paying close attention
> all the
> > while assuming someone else will drop in and take the price up to the
> norm.  I
> > think the latter happened in this case.
>
> Yes. I think you're correct. I saw that transmitter, but didn't bid on it.
> I am not
> a collector (can't afford either the cash outlay nor the room), and
> besides, I
> thought it would go for more than that.
>
> By "shopping" very carefully, I have made some "interesting" purchases:
> like
> an ex-FAA HRO-50-R1 with all coils but one, and the coil-box/speaker for
> under $200, and a CE-200V for about the same.
>
> Also, quite a number of GOOD 211/VT-4Cs for under $20 each, most of
> which I sold for what they cost me to those needing them for vintage rigs.
>
> I kept two for my replica 1929 push-pull TNT transmitter. They work fine.
>
> The last two weeks in August have been a good time for the "good pickin's"
> for me.
>
> Ken W7EKB
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