[Milsurplus] Ray's Dayton Report

[Ray Fantini]

Just because they wanted $300 don't mean they get it, however I did see someone pay $185.00 for a PRC-10. If there were any $20 to $60 PRC-25/77 sets they would have sold fast and I did not see them. I list the price that people list on items, not what they are worth or what they may eventually sell them for. Did not see many of the $600 R-390 sell so I would doubt that they are worth that much, did see about half the $250 ART-13 sell so they must have a value of around that amount. Dayton has more buyers of military radios per square inch than any other hamfest so the bargains disappear fast so just like the $20 clean and working TCS transmitters the $50 PRC-77 radios if they are there go fast. I saw one of those huge heavy Navy shipboard APR-4 receivers with the four band plug in and normally I would not ask or waste my time with one of those but have been looking for a APR-4Y and thought the multiband plug in would be useful to have. The last time I saw one of those radios it had several signal band heads but the seller only wanted $25 for the whole mess. This time I though t I would offer $25 or $50 for the head and leave the radio there and the seller was insulted by my offer! He told me the radio and its head were worth at least $300.00 Is the radio worth that much? At least one person thinks so. Just because someone ask that much has little to do with how someone else values the item. Couple years back at Dayton I came across someone who had an TMC SSB converters on his table first thing in the morning for $40.00, I told him people are selling these things for $300 to $450 for use with R-390 receivers and he should put his price up higher. He thought I was crazy and put $175.00 on it and sold it within a couple minutes, value of collectable items are always a variable amount.

Ray Fantini

 

-----Original Message-----
From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Robert Flory
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 9:40 AM
To: Ray Fantini; milsurplus
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Ray's Dayton Report

Wow, 55 check-ins on the Marty Reynolds 51Mc net.  That's really impressive!

Were the people with the 300+ dollar PRC-25/77 rigs smoking crack(?) or do they really get that kind of money for them?

RF