[ARC5] ARC-2 on Ebay

[Scott Johnson]

It bears repeating:

Remember, 50% of the populace has an IQ of less than 100.

Scott V. Johnson W7SVJ
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-----Original Message-----
From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net <arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf
Of Kenneth G. Gordon
Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2020 1:38 PM
To: Arc5 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [ARC5] ARC-2 on Ebay

On 13 Sep 2020 at 15:10, David Stinson wrote:

> > I'm all for Capitalism, but the market is the problem- it will not 
> > "bear" $1600 for an ARC-2, no matter what it's condition.
> > Nor will it a $180 ARC-3, for that matter.  I'm sure y'all have 
> > noticed that the demand for such radios is dwindling fast.

Oh, yes!!!!

> > Yet these people will continue
> > to list it, cutting perhaps 10% off until they get it down to a 
> > still laughable $800, then it disappears.  I don't know if they got 
> > frustrated and sent it to the dump as many spoiled infants have 
> > threatened (and done) over the years or if they decided to take the next
$200 offer.
> > They certainly won't tell you if you ask.

Of course not!

> > There's a guy on Ebay who has been re-listing a replica tag from a 
> > Lear light aircraft antenna reel- not the reel, just the tag.  He 
> > wants $285 for it and he never discounts.  He's been listing that 
> > thing repeatedly for at least 10 years- maybe more.  Listing fees 
> > alone have probably eaten-up what he hoped to make.  Then there's 
> > the guy with the TAJ transmitter that has been listed also for 
> > years.  He finally came down off his original IIRC $15,000

His first price I remember seeing was $18,000.00

> price down to $3500 or something, but he's going to stay there
> > it seems forever.  Hope he needs a heavy-duty door-stop.

Yes. I have been following that, just out of curiousity. It is worth, maybe,
$400.00 at most. 
Someone from our group actually went to that fellow's home some years ago,
and talked with him, and/or his son. Made zero progress. Left in
frustration.

> > Capitalism is fine, but it only works when one allows "supply and
demand"
> > to do it's job.  You can list excellent hamburgers all day and if 
> > you ask $287.15 for them, you're going to be disappointed.  I assume 
> > a person lists things on Ebay because he wants to sell them.  
> > Placing loonie prices based on nothing but clouds and dreams isn't 
> > going to do the job.  That's not Capitalism.  It's just pig-headed
stupidity.

Absolutely correct.

I remember, many years ago, when I and some friends in Missoula, Montana
were working with Model A Fords, we found a brand-new engine in some
junk-auto-parts dealer's shop. 
We went to talk with him to see if he would sell it. He wanted some
astronomical price for it, which we, of course, being kids in highschool,
could never have afforded.

He told us that if he didn't get the price he wanted for it, he would smash
it up with a sledge-hammer rather than see it go to anyone who could use it
at a lesser price.

The same jackass "built" a hot-rod Pontiac engine and installed it in a big
flat-bed truck which he was going to use to haul auto-parts to some big
outfit down south of Montana somewhere.

Of course, that engine was never designed to be used in a truck and run at
max rpm all day long.

It blew up on his first trip with it. We never heard from or about him
again.

Ken W7EKB
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