[Hallicrafters] SX-100 for $1100 ?

[Grant Youngman]

> As long as the description is accurate, since the buyers set the
> price, you can't steal on eBay.  

This is often true.  But scams still abound and sucker the uninitiated 
and unwary.  I'm a relatively heavy eBay user -- but I trust no one .. 
not even the more well known sellers, who I've found often 
misrepresent their wares .. sometimes through ignorance, 
sometimes perhaps not.

> The price was fair and in the
> future will seem low. 

Cough ...... people do a lot of stupid things.  Joe Walsh may have 
spent $4k for an SX-115 -- but that is a poor indication of "value".  I 
have good reason to suspect it was simply a bid tactic that 
backfired.  Of course, he can afford to the ignore the hit .... :-)

> Boatanchors have yet to reach fair market value. If those weird
> Catalin radios can sell for thousands, tens of thousands of dollars,
> then an SX-100 should be much more, fifty grand?  A hundred 
grand?

That's a bit (understatement) of a stretch.  There are many 
collectors of "those weird" Catalin plastics.  Many of the Catalin 
radios were stunningly beautiful creations.  But it's not the radio ... 
it's the art form.  I don't think the SX-100 (even though I have a soft 
spot in my heart for mine, which I acquired from Henry Radio in LA 
in the early 60's) cuts that same rug.  And most other ham radio 
gear doesn't get there either .. even the best of it is pretty pedestrian 
stuff.

Your could comfortably retire on a warehouse full of Catalin ..  with a 
warehouse full of SX-100's (or SB-303's or whatever)  you might be 
able to buy a boat .. ok, not a big one . .. maybe a bass boat ... :-)

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