[Milsurplus] Puzzling Epay Example

[roy wildermuth]

Hello

I saw that 348 and it was probably the shock-mount that raised the price. I
would have possibly bid that much knowing that I could sell the radio for
50-100 if I just cleaned it up a bit and then had the mount for ~100 bucks.

Roy W

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Hue Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:

> Whats yer take on this?
> A BC-348 recently closed, at $336.
> Now, it had control shaft hole vacant (light dimmer?)
> Had some kind of numbered skirt added to the tuning knob.
> Had shockmount.
> Had external, open chassis (non cabineted) AC supply.
> BC-348's are not rare, and they are on Epay every day of the year.
> Feeding all of the above into the hopper, how does the price figure?
> Or is my off-the-cuff rule of thumb validated:  "Figure the maximum
> expected bid price, and double it."
> Yes, I know it's an auction ( read, "Irrational" ), but what was the
> attraction of this BC-348?  -Hue Miller
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