[Boatanchors] Amazing prices

[Warren Elly]

Guys- I saw a score of valiants from 150-300 dollars - 200 dollar rangers - a dozen hallicrafters and an equal number of national receivers all very reasonably priced at NEARFEST this past weekend
Why would anyone buy on eBay ?? It's like shooting yourself on the foot isn't bit?
Support your local hamfests - if you don't you'll just feed the ebayers who are making a handsome living selling boat anchors way over value
And why would you give up your radios in fear the xyl will have too Much to dispose  of? You have no trusted ham friends to do what you should already be doing for your SK friends? 
Greed is just rampant as is hoarding - I've yet to
Meet the guy with a house and barn full of hulks who got rich selling them
Let's preserve and enjoy the ham radio we love- encouage a young hams by having some charity and fraternity in our hearts!

Didn't someone help you with an s40 or a globe chief back in the day ???

How many transmitters and receivers are you sitting on that you'll never use ?


73
Warren w1gud
Flamgroup.com



> On May 6, 2014, at 12:37 PM, "David Knepper" <collinsradio at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Could we start a new thread:  "What if there was no Ebay?"
> 
> I'll be the first since this is a rhetorical question:  "Hoping that 'Carl' would die so I could convince his wife that he was my friend and promised me his Collins KW-1"
> 
> David Knepper - W3CRA/W3ST
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> -----Original Message----- From: Bob Young
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 12:02 PM
> To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Amazing prices
> 
> I don't know if you're looking at ebay or not but there are plenty of "amazing" prices on there. Sellers put boatanchors on there for for example routinely at 3-4 times the price most people would pay and just relist them over and over again hoping some sucker will come along and just have to have that radio. I look through just about every day and can usually tell who the seller is on ridiculously over priced items, gets so I don't even look at those certain auctions. There should be a limit on the amount of times a seller can relist an item to get the glut off.
> 
> 
> Bob
> KB1OKL
> 
> 
> 
> om: rhulett1 at consolidated.net
>> To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
>> Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 08:32:08 -0500
>> Subject: [Boatanchors] Amazing prices
>> 
>> Having started in this hobby in the early 60s, the old radios continue to
>> interest me.  Several of various sorts have moved into the shack for awhile
>> then moved on.  Lately I have been looking at Hallicrafters and National
>> 40s-50s receivers and the prices seem rather amazing.  I've seen several
>> priced near $300!  Much of the gear is in poor condition, missing parts,
>> inoperable.  Would have thought estate sales would have saturated the market
>> and driven prices to few cents on the pound given the age of this equipment.
>> Must be a lot more old folks like me interested than would have thought.
>> 
>> 73, Curt KB5JO
>> 
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