[ForSale-Swap] A Thought

[Jerry]

There's a lot of "funny stuff" going on on sites like Greedbay ... just can't prove it.  There is also the fact that some of the stuff I've bought there has been trash !  Most of it was DOA and I could get response from sellers.  On the other side, as a seller, I've been ripped off by buyer claiming I never sent the item. They took it to dispute and I lost. It's all "buyer beware".
 
Garage sales are always a good place to find electronics as are some resale stores. Probably should also mention curb-cruising and dumpsterdiving (seen much at hamfests which should have gone right back into the dumpster it came from !). Once picked up a David Clark 4-headphone control unit at resale shop for $3 and sold it (you-know-where) for over $100 !   
 
Jerry  N9AVY

--- On Thu, 12/17/09, J. Forster <jfor at quik.com> wrote:


From: J. Forster <jfor at quik.com>
Subject: Re: [ForSale-Swap] A Thought
To: "Andy - KU4XR" <ku4xr at yahoo.com>
Cc: forsale-swap at mailman.qth.net
Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009, 5:07 PM


As I said before, it takes TWO bidders to run something up, save on BINs.

Some years ago, I stopped at a local yard sale mid morning. I saw a very
clean Tektronix TM 500 with three much sought after calibration plugins. I
would happily have paid many, many hundreds. I asked the guy what he
wanted for it and he said $10. I paid it instantly. He probably would have
taken $5 and thought me a fool for paying $10. I sold one of the plugins
within a couple of hours for over $1000.

Morals: One mans junk is another man's treasure. Knowlege is power.

-John

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> There is such a thing called " Bid Rigging " It is Illegal if it
> can be proven, and it does happen everyday. The e-Fray experience
> can be a frustrating one. And yes the e-Fray market is grossly
> exxagerated. What someone in a large metropolitan city would pay
> for an item, someone in a small rural town would choke at the
> price. What my local market will support in prices dosen't come
> close to the inflated prices on the auction site, which could
> very likely be artificially bid up anyway. Anyone can create
> multiple accounts, and use them to bid up items to keep from
> having to sell them for what they would truly bring at auction.
>


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