[ARC5] ARC-2 on Ebay

Sun Sep 13 17:35:12 EDT 2020

Several years ago, I did an article for Electric Radio that included a 1949 ad from Radio Shack (they did sell radios back then!).  I then juxtaposed that ad with a copy ad on the opposing page with prices adjusted for the average inflated value of the dollar.  The results were rather interesting.  RatShak had a complete, as-new BC-375, mount, connectors, all tubes, all tuning units, dynamotor, and antenna tuner for $65. The adjusted price was somewhere around $850.  They had BC-348 receivers with dynamotor and mount for $79, "ready for airline service".  Today's price? Over $500.  I just bought a shockmount for $140 and really excellent receivers are going for from $200 to $400. The thing is, one must compare apples to apples..... A corroded-out, unknown condition ARC-2 in no way comports to anything.......
Jeep K3HVG
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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
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> On 13 Sep 2020 at 15:10, David Stinson wrote:
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> > > 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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