[Elecraft] Best Place to Sell Equipment?

[GRANT YOUNGMAN]

>  Or check if you know your buyer/seller and have trust (or endure 10-20 day wait for checks to clear).
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Maybe that’s your bank.  At least for domestic payments, checks are normally truncated at the bank of 1st deposit (paper checks generally no longer get moved around like the “good old days") and the exchange of funds is handled through ACH/ETF.  A check should actually clear in 2-3 days at most.  I've frequently taken a personal check payment if I know the buyer personally or by reputation, and I don’t recall having to wait any extraordinary time for a deposited check to show as “cleared”.

I’ve used the QTH list, reflector postings and eBay for buying and selling (mostly buying, to the chagrin of my bride).  They all work fine.  eBay takes too much, but then I’ve found you often get a higher selling price on eBay, too, because the market is just bigger.  The thing that bothers me about eBay the most is that they actually consider “shipping” to be part of the item's “value” and take a cut of what is your COST to ship.  It’s only a few $$ usually, but it just makes me grit my teeth in disgust.  Hamfests are at the bottom of the list — no matter how little you think you’re asking for something compared to perceived value, someone will stop by and tell you how (1) they won’t pay the eBay price, (2) they’d never pay that because they found one on a curb once or (3)  they got theirs for $25 from a dying widow.  I was once told that, because I wouldn’t come down another $5.00, it was MY fault that her grandson couldn’t have an ice cream on the way home.  And from bitter experience I won’t ever buy anything at a hamfest from someone that I don’t know and who promises that if I ignore the rust (just needs some paint) “it works perfectly” ;-)

Grant NQ5T
K3 #2091, KX3 #8342