[Milsurplus] Someone Stole the TCM

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Ray,

I wouldn't call that stupid.  When you aren't fantastically rich (as most or 
maybe all of us here aren't), total cost of ownership must certainly be 
considered.  Looks like you did your homework on that.  Much better than what we 
sometimes get on Susie's stuff, a tune that goes something like "I didn't realize 
it was going to cost so much to ship.  Just let the other bidder have it".

In a message dated 11/16/2005 9:02:11 AM Central Standard Time, 
RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu writes: 
> I was the stupid person who only had a bid to $155.00 on the TCM, and
> lost the auction. before everyone say wow you should have bid more let
> me point out that the seller wanted $35 to wrap and place the radio on a
> pallet and Roadway had already quoted me $288.00 for delivery to my
> town, that's just to the terminal so I would have had to load the stuff
> and unload it at my place so I would have been into this transmitter for
> $478.00, not much of a bargain when you consider shipping, maybe I
> should have set my high bid at $200 but who knows if the person who
> bought it lives in reasonable distance.

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