[Elecraft] Older Serial# K3

[Don Wilhelm]

Grant,

I don't think the point is to kill the used market.  If I were to see a 
used K3 priced a bit below the price I am willing to pay for *my* K3 and 
the options I want - I certainly would be tempted, but if there were 
options that I did not want included with the used K3, I still would not 
be willing to pay more than a new K3 that is configured with my 
particular option set.

On top of that, I would build my own, it is not much work, so I would 
only be willing to consider the kit price.

In other words, the present owner would have to sell it below the kit 
price of my preferred K3 configuration, and I would further discount my 
offering price if it were not upgraded to the latest level.  It is a 
value vs. price consideration.  An older upgraded K3 is just as good as 
a brand new one - there are no "hidden mods", but the mods may have been 
added using leaded components (as instructed) while the changes on the 
K3 line have been implemented with SMD - the functionality is the same 
and you can't tell the difference from the outside of the box.

73,
Don W3FPR

Grant Youngman wrote:
> So .. I guess the point of this thread is to kill the used market for the K3.  That's seems a bit like pointing a gun at once's own head.
>
> Obviously if some guy has attempted to do  hardware mods with a Black Beauty soldering iron or a blow torch and a pair of vice grips you have a problem.  Or if he had to use a rubber hammer to seat the front panel board, because it "just wouldn't fit right"?That's true of any radio, from a 75A-1 to a K3.  But for all purposes, a low serial K3 with the appropriate mods and updates done is the same radio as a new one.
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> It seems as though perhaps I should dump my own 2K serial K3 and just buy a new one?  Since the new ones are better?  Huh?
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> Grant/NQ5T
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>
> On Apr 3, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Jeff Herr wrote:
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>> Older isn't better!
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