[ARC5] WWII Collection Well Worth Saving

[Joe Connor]

 Unfortunately, this is a problem in most hobbies. We live in a "Pawn Stars/Antique Roadshow/American Pickers" world where people are led to believe that if it's old, it's gold.
                        Joe 
    On Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at 09:05:00 AM EST, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:  
 
 Only if the owner will accept a very modest offer.
Fair knows its client base is vanishing.
Were it me, and I had the time to get it, the
money to pay for a rent truck and a place to put
it (and I don't), I'd offer $1500 for the whole lot
and consider that generous.

On 12/14/2022 6:19 AM, Doran Platt wrote:
> Maybe Fair Radio would pick up the whole lot?
>> On 12/14/2022 6:57 AM David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com 
>> <mailto:arc5 at ix.netcom.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> The market for this equipment is going extinct.
>> A realistic sales price with consideration
>> of the expense of retrieving and storing
>> will reflect that.
>>
>> It might help moving this if someone gently
>> reminds the owner to ignore the "offer"
>> prices on Ebay ($3000 for a $50 piece)-
>> an irrationality epidemic these days, which
>> results in collections like this going
>> to the dump, and start looking at
>> *Sold* prices, selectable on the
>> listing page in the left-hand menu.
>> Scroll down and one will see it. It will
>> bring sellers "down to earth" quickly.
>> There are "outlyers" like a $700 ART-13
>> (P.T. Barnum was right),
>> but most of them seem to go about $250 +/-.
>>
>> If he does not and buys the price delusion
>> which 90% of sellers have bought, than this
>> nice collection, like so many before it,
>> will find its end in the land fill.
>>
>> D.S.
>>
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