[ARC5] "ARC-5" Market Value - It's Crazy

[Bruce Long via ARC5]

I have been watching ARC 5 tuning knobs on and off for the last four years and i if i had had a chance to buy at $15 dollars i would have jumped all over it.
I do agree $50 bucks per knob is high but if you need them to finish a project??????
I have been seriously collecting old WW2 and pre WW2 receivers for the last couple years and  it seems to me prices are uniformly going up.  I wonder if this is a transient phenomenon driven by older guys enjoying a second, more financially capable childhood- i fall in that category- which will die out with the enthusiasts, or if interest and therefor demand will pass on to the next generation.
      From: J Mcvey via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
 To: David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>; ARC-5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> 
 Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 10:46 AM
 Subject: Re: [ARC5] "ARC-5" Market Value - It's Crazy
   
It's even more of a mystery if you ever tried to use those "stock" receivers in a QSO!I'm going to have to cook up a tiny FET Q-multiplier to go inside the radio...
 


    On Monday, August 10, 2015 9:46 AM, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
  

 Next time someone asks me what an "ARC-5" piece 
is worth, here's an example of what I mean when I tell
them the question is unanswerable, the market is insane, 
it depends on which way the wind is blowing and 
who has "mad money" when:

Three tuning knobs are worth $15 each:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/231572720939

But just six days before, four of them
were worth almost $50 each:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/231572714283

When someone says: 
"It's worth whatever someone will pay at that moment,"
he's not trying to be a smarta**.
It's the only valid answer.

73 D.S.

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