[Boatanchors] Photos from Dayton 2012

[Nick England]

As you say, with a bigger market you can ask for a bigger price and,
like on eBay, hope you get the guy who has been lusting after exactly
your item. Lots of people tend to remember tourists snapping up
Collins stuff a few years ago regardless of cost.

Just because someone is asking that much doesn't mean they got it -
everyone expects to dicker some - and the real bargains could have all
disappeared before I took the photos. I talked to one fellow who had
bought 90+ pieces of gear on Thursday & Friday - all to sell on eBay.

Or maybe the real bargains appeared later - I took most of the photos
Thursday afternoon during setup and early Friday morning - by Saturday
afternoon or Sunday prices might have been *adjusted* some - I saw
some items marked down 50% early Saturday AM. The big Collins
collection folks had added lots of "Make Offer" signs to those prices
by Saturday AM.

But with DX-100's sitting around unsold at $50-80 there were certainly
useful rigs to be had at reasonable prices. It seemed to me that this
is just going to accelerate - more estates are showing up and people
are downsizing collections. Optimists are pricing things at what they
paid for them, but as everyone who isn't a politician/bureaucrat
knows, increasing supply and decreasing demand do not imply high
prices....

Man, young boatanchor fans (if any) are gonna have a really great time
in the coming years.....

cheers,
Nick K4NYW

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 7:40 AM, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Thank you very much for going to the trouble to upload these, Nick.
>
> Wow... prices are a lot higher that I'm used to seeing  around here.
> The gear I see with prices would most certainly be taken back home
> down here at HamCom next month.  I guess when you have a
> bigger market, you can get a bigger price.
> Ah well that's the free market so glad somebody gets to pay the bills
> ;-)
> 73 D.S.
>
>