>This Ebay BC-221 with a book got no love. No bids!

Something suspect about the $86 shipping charge to west coast. This may be the

retail shipping charge, but Ebay sellers get a discount from the retail, walk-in rate.

Hamfest sell price should be around $25 tops. In other words, barely worth the work of

taking it to the hamfest, when you consider real-world prices of foods, gas, clothes

and so on. But the hobby economy is only loosely related to the real world economy.

Last week I took a couple musical instruments to a music store in Corvallis, Oregon to

commission sell. The gentleman there seemed to be telling me that in times of

uncertainty, people stick with the tried and true, are less adventurous with their purchases.

I assume he meant for example, the good old 6-string gitbox will still sell steadily, while

for example, the bouzouki and odd mandolin variants, not so much. The foregoing paragraph

has minimal connection to the BC-221 discussion, but it just has me wondering about the

state of the overall markets right now.

-Hue Miller