[Milsurplus] Dayton reflections

[Mark J. Blair]

On May 21, 2012, at 12:42 , COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
> Indeed and  with smaller  swaps declining too...   I  had one old seller 
> tell me....
> 
> "but...  if  I can list it  and sell it all  year  long  why load it and 
> haul it cross country and have  someone  whine and insult  me about the price?"
> 
> And you know?    that is  the  way it  now  is.
> 
> I do miss the old  days  of early morning flashlight  hunt  at the  swap 
> but as I age....a click of buy it now   works  out just  fine....


I have not attended Dayton (yet?), but I've seen this happen with the annual MRCG swap meet, too. Once eBay really took off, the buyers and sellers who would just show up for the swap meet stopped showing up.

I think that another thing which may exaggerate my perception of the decline of the military radio related swap meets is that my collection has gotten pretty big. What's left in the swap meets is more and more often stuff that I already have, so I don't even notice it as much as I would have a decade ago.


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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
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