[Boatanchors] TV7D/U - Here's what your missing

[WA5CAB--- via Boatanchors]

Well, it happens.  Tom Gordon and I (only ones at the time to have them in 
quantity) had been selling FT-501's (A-Battery adaptor for the BC-611) at 
IIRC $22.50 for several years.  A local friend and BC-611 owner had been over 
at my place buying a few parts one morning.  Shortly after he got home, he 
either called or sent me an email telling me to go look at Item # so and so.  
Someone had just sold one for something like $145, and it had several 
bidders at over $100.  I got out my camera, took some photos, wrote some ads 
(there are several variants) and by bed time had sold three, starting at about 
$120.  When I sold out about a week later, price was down to $60 something.

FWIW, price for working TV-7's has typically been at least $120 or so since 
the 1980's.  If you paid less, you got a bargain.

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480

In a message dated 01/14/2015 19:35:17 PM Central Standard Time, 
n4lg at qx.net writes: 
> We all tend to think 'what a dummy the buyer must be' to pay such 
> an outlandish price for a piece of gear we take for granted.
> 
> What we are really missing is what it must feel like BEING THE 
> SELLER of the TV7D/U. This sale (if it actually goes through with 
> either bidder) is like winning the lottery without having to pay 
> tax. The seller has probably drooled their self dry over the 
> bidding war and opened the Champagne!
> 
> Something else that will be interesting to watch is all the 
> available TV7D/U's coming out of the woodwork looking for similar 
> buyers.
> 
> 73 Bill