[ARC5] Fair Radio Fades Into the Gathering Darkness

[David Stinson]

On 8/7/2023 1:26 AM, Robert P. Meadows wrote:
> David and others.
> 
> First off Fair radio is not chaos. 
I submit the photographic evidence
to the direct contrary.

> All you folks want some one to go and "rescue" goods that most complained
> were too "expensive" for years.

Phil's personal journey is irrelevant.
This is a business, not a soap opera.
If one cannot sell something,
be it electric cars, watermelons
or old electronic stuff, there is
forever more one, and only *one* reason:
The price is too high.
Set the price to the market and
one can sell ice to Alaskans.

What he paid for it is irrelevant.
What you or I "feel" about it is irrelevant.
What matters is the size of the market
and the demand from that market.

Both have drastically declined to the point
where most of his inventory- at least what I
can see from the photos- has only scrap metal
value.  Stamping one's foot and demanding
an above-market, unrealistic value for
whatever commodity one is trying to sell
is counter-productive and unreasonable.

> As far as "cherry picking" items, haven't you any honor, morality or just
> plain smarts.
I have no problem with my personal "honor"
or morality concerning this issue, sir.
Nor am I an idiot.

I am divorcing my personal emotions from this,
because weeping and demanding self-defined
"honourable" suggestions which require
of people to pay $150 for an item
with a market value of $15
is childish fantasy, and will result in
scrap disposal of everything- perhaps after
Lima starts fining him on "environmental" grounds.

We have a problem.
Beating one's chest about it in phony righteous
indignation will not fix it.
We need to define the problem and propose
realistic solutions.

The problem is:
Within that maelstrom of chaotic piles of stuff
are hidden authentically rare and even
one-of-a-kind pieces, plus connectors and
accessories many have been seeking for years.

How do we identify and acquire those items
before they, too, meet their end in the
scrappers front-end loader?

I have proposed a solution: Organizing
people who know something about their
particular interest who can sort
"the wheat from the chaff"
and save at least some of it.
I am certainly open to other ideas.
I am willing to contribute to
a realistic effort.

What I'm not willing to tolerate is a
specious lecture on my personal morality.
We see and acknowledge your chest-beating.
Now put all that crap back in your pocket
and help work the problem.

D.S.


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