[Boatanchors] Amazing prices

[Joe Connor via Boatanchors]

You're 100% right, Bob, but it doesn't end there.

Other sellers do "research" and determine the "value" of their radios by examining the ridiculous asking prices for ebay radios that don't sell. I've gotten to the point where if a seller tells me that he/she has "researched" the value of a radio, I start heading for the door because I can almost count on that research being an examination of the ridiculous ebay asking prices.

Joe Connot
On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 4:14 PM, Bob Young <bobyoung53 at hotmail.com> wrote:
 
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.
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>> To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
>> Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 08:32:08 -0500
>> Subject: [Boatanchors] Amazing prices
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>> 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.
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>> 73, Curt KB5JO 
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