[Boatanchors] Hamfest Pricing

[Charlie , W5COV]

The ones I get to attend, I absolutely hate not seeing some kind of 
price on it. It gives me a good indication if I might be able to do 
business with the person or if I should just keep walking.

At this point there isn't anything that I can't really live without and 
only two pieces of gear that I would like to find for a reasonable price 
for pure nostalgia. An Ameco AC-1 and a Weskit BN-1. Just want them 
mainly for shelf items and conversation pieces for the newer hams that 
come over and have never used code or done so minimally and missed the 
tube era.

Unfortunately both of these have somehow achieved an almost cult like 
following and the prices are more than I am willing to pay. I do have an 
AC-1 clone, but having owned an original during my Novice year, as my 
first "store bought" kit,( cost was $15 or $16, which really was a LOT 
of money in 1965/66 to a 12 year old kid ) it would be nice to sit next 
to my S-40 that I still have, that I used with it.I also built a Weskit 
BN-1 but didn't try to make it look like the original. That may be a 
future project.

If I do see a price, and I am interested, my negotiating usually amounts 
to what is your absolute best price on it. I have never been much of a 
wheeler dealer.

I have started to sell a few things now, and I don't care about eBay 
prices. I put a fair and reasonable price on it and also put or best 
reasonable offer , to let them know there is some negotiating room and I 
really don't want to take it home.( I normally sell out the first 
evening, or morning of the event )

I too am not going to give it away at a hamfest for some guy to turn 
around and resell it on eBay, for a big profit. If the offers are 
ridiculously low, I will just watch the groups that I subscribe to and 
wait until I see someone who really does want what I have and then pass 
it along to them free of charge, including shipping. I would rather see 
it used and appreciated for free, than just bought as part of an eBay 
business.

Charlie, W5COV

On 9/1/2014 11:35 AM, David Stinson wrote:
> Some of you guys have a talent.  Alas; not me.
> "Making offers" is against my religion.
> I always guess something that's so far off the rails
> that the seller gets mad or laughs or he practically
> jumps over the table yelling "SOLD!" and I feel like an idiot.
> I guess "if the shoe fits...."  ;-)
>
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