[ICOM] Worth of radios..

[John Geiger]

Of course one other thing that drives down the price of the 2SAT is that I can get a new 2m HT with more features and power out for less than $100.

73s John AA5JG

--- On Thu, 9/10/09, KD7JYK DM09 <kd7jyk at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: KD7JYK DM09 <kd7jyk at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [ICOM] Worth of radios..
> To: "ICOM Reflector" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 11:06 PM
> : At 07:47 PM 9/10/2009, John Geiger
> wrote:
> :  >10% of new?? Ok, I am ready for a couple of
> used 756PRO3s for $300.
> 
> Twenty years from now, it'll just be another over-used
> radio with a worn
> faceplate and scratched screen.
> 
> I gave him the "rule of thumb", based on my experience of
> buying and selling
> at swapmeets in various forms, private sales and auctions,
> some long before
> ebay existed, for twenty six years.
> 
> There will always be some twit more than willing to ask
> near new prices for
> used equipment missing a few pieces in the hope there will
> always be people
> with more dollars than IQ points more than willing to toss
> a wad of cash at
> it without taking some twenty minutes to verify current
> price and
> availability.
> 
> Recent attempts at selling equipment by a few hams locally
> is an excellent
> example, their prices ranged from five to twenty times the
> current average
> rate for identical used items, but always justified with
> "You know what it's
> worth?",  yeah, I know what it's worth, walking away,
> I can get a used one,
> complete and fuctional, unlike your pile of stuff here,
> somewhere between
> free and the cost of lunch and a new one for about 20% more
> of what you're
> asking...
> 
> Kurt
> 
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