[Elecraft] Unassembled K2 Vs Assembled Marketability

[jerry]

On 2022-03-13 12:19, edauer at aya.yale.edu wrote:
> Ah, to be 8 again.
> 
*** It's not all beer and skittles.  My Max has had a tough time the 
past few years.
Due to COVID.  Hiding in the house.  No friends.  He did not get to play 
with any other child
for over a year.  Back in April of 2020, he cried like a baby when I 
told him that there would
be no summer school.

   When they sent him home in March of 2020, I immediately went onto 
Amazon and got the biggest
set of "Snap Circuits".  I also bought a paid subscription to Zoom, so 
he could have virtual
visits with his friends.

                              - Jerry KF6VB






> Even better, to be 8 with a Dad who understands . . .
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jerry <jerry at tr2.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2022 1:14 PM
> To: edauer at aya.yale.edu
> Cc: 'George Thornton' <gthornton at thorntonmostullaw.com>;
> elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Unassembled K2 Vs Assembled Marketability
> 
> My 8 y/o son has been lusting after an $800 Lego kit.  A walking Star 
> Wars
> tank.
> It has something like 8000 pieces.  I explained to my wife that it 
> would
> reasonably keep him busy for a whole week.  But she didn't see the 
> logic :).
> So we bought him a simpler kit with 1200 pieces that will keep him busy 
> for
> one day.
> 
> 
>                         - Jerry KF6VB
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2022-01-28 13:49, edauer at aya.yale.edu wrote:
>> Same here.  For me the build is most of the fun.  To put it in
>> perspective:
>> My daughter once told me that when her son, my grandson, was 8, he was
>> a Leggo kit wiz.  He would finish a $50 Leggo kit in a morning, a $75
>> kit in a long afternoon.  She said it was costing her nearly $20 an
>> hour to keep him occupied.  Since I take my time with the K2 build, my
>> cost per hour is less than what it costs to keep an eight year-old
>> amused.  And to the same effect.
>> 
>> Ted, KN1CBR
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: George Thornton <gthornton at thorntonmostullaw.com>
>> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 2:41 PM
>> To: edauer at aya.yale.edu; elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: RE: [Elecraft] Unassembled K2 Vs Assembled Marketability
>> 
>> As a former K2 owner I can say at least half the fun of one of these
>> was to build it myself.
>> 
>> This is one of the last kinds of major kits that involve assembling
>> all the components onto a circuit board.  Today with all the surface
>> mount devices the technical challenge is too much for most of us and
>> kits largely become a mechanical assembly of already completed circuit
>> boards.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>> <elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On
>> Behalf Of edauer at aya.yale.edu
>> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 1:35 PM
>> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: [Elecraft] Unassembled K2 Vs Assembled Marketability
>> 
>> I don't know the answer to the question though I agree with someone
>> else who
>> said they are different commodities.  However, in the long run an
>> unopened
>> kit may be worth a small fortune, like some unopened games and Barbie
>> dolls
>> are.  The K2 deliveries are presently TBD . . . I have one (my fifth)
>> on
>> order and no ESD is posted.  I assume it's a parts problem.  The K2 
>> has
>> already had a number of small component modifications made as the
>> traditional parts have become unobtainable or uneconomic.  If it were
>> possible to place an order for the final five S/Ns, whenever that
>> happens,
>> I'd pay for them today.  What say, Wayne -- will you make me that 
>> deal?
>> 
>> Ted, KN1CBR
>> 
>> 
>> Message: 18
>> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 10:23:45 -0500
>> From: KJ <kjpj27 at gmail.com>
>> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: [Elecraft] Unassembled K2 Vs Assembled Marketability
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>> 
>> Hello all,
>> Does anyone have experience as far as which is more marketable?
>> Assembled or unassembled? Is there a price difference in posting 
>> either
>> for
>> sale?
>> Thanks!
>> Ken, W2GIW
>> 
>> 
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