[Milsurplus] Equipment for sale

[don davis]

Odd to hear such a strong opinion since I assume you'll neither  attend in
person nor bid by mail under any circumstances and regardless of terms of
sale?  

Not so ridiculous since nearly all "serious" auctions are conducted this way
(art, coins, guns, land, other rare items and high $$ items).  Most auctions
allow mail bidders to place an upper limit and will execute your bids
exactly as if you were there, so no method "screws" anyone.

As I clearly stated I offered my suggestion based on the assumption of
maximizing the sale proceeds.  If his goal is just to get rid of everything,
then maybe a garage sale is the best way? 

73 de don ad6pb

-----Original Message-----
From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of J. Forster
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 6:32 AM
To: don davis
Cc: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Equipment for sale

Ridiculous.

Your suggested method will essentially screws anybody who is not personally
at the auction. The playing field is a mountainside.

If I saw an auction with those terms, I'd hit DELETE at once and not even
bother with the list of items.

-John

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> The problem with a garage sale is that it won't properly determine the 
> true market value.  This stuff is fairly rare and there isn't a 
> well-defined market (Mike Murphy might want to weigh-in).  The way to 
> optimize return (assuming that's your goal) is to carefully catalog 
> the equipment with a view of usefulness / collectability, hold a mail 
> bid auction open for ~2 weeks culminating in a live auction on-site 
> with opening bids set to the mail-in bids.  It's a lot of work which 
> may not be justified unless the auction is worth a lot.  I assume 
> there would be interest also from the avionics / aircraft surplus 
> guys?
>
> A good local auctioneer is the guy the does the yearly SCARS (Southern 
> California Antique Radio Society) old radio auctions.  Knows a lot 
> about radio / radio guys, is entertaining and aggressive.  Name is Mike
Sherman.
>
> 73 de don ad6pb
>