[Milsurplus] Dayton Findings, Ebay Pricings

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I see too  many old men die  with stuff rotting in  storage  sheds and u 
store it  lockers. 
Ed#
 
 
In a message dated 5/20/2013 5:40:58 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
clare.owens at gmail.com writes:

Hi  Dave,

You are striking a chord in me with your comments.   Especially this one:

"It's just a thing. You need liquid assets- not an  albatross on a shelf
costing you money."

I think it would strike  close to home for some on this list to rephrase
that as "an albatross  sitting on a shelf or in a commercial storage unit
costing you  money."  I want to be able to see and touch my "stuff" by just
turning  my head to the left or at most by going downstairs to my garage.
Obviously  it's anybody's privilege to spend whatever amount for any item or
to spend  whatever additional amounts on its upkeep and/or storage but it'd
be  foolish to expect the cost of those efforts to make much if any change
in  the item's perceived value to the rest of the world.

When I die one of  my sons will want a few of the items in my collection and
if any of my  other sons or grandchildren want any they can have them and
the rest will  go to a live auction.  It's in my will and nobody will be
depending  upon any perceived value when it all goes.  I just hope that  the
collectors who survive me will get as much enjoyment out of my stuff  as
I've had from it.

Clare





On Mon, May 20,  2013 at 12:51 PM, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>  Re: Price and Markets
> (originally posted on Boatanchors,
>  reposted here in reponse (**) to Robert's post)
>
>
> -----  Original Message ----- From: "Russo, John"  <jprusso at buffalo.edu>
>
>> ....And the Ebay prices on  most of the cleaner fleamarket pieces. I 
would
>> guess 90% of the  clean boatanchors did NOT sell because
>> of the overpricing.  ....
>> I'm not sure I'll be able to sustain this hobby luxury much  longer.
>>
>
> Hams are getting older- fast.
> Many  of us have indulged and carried our children far longer than we
> should  have, leaving some short the assets to retire.
> Others have been  stripped of their assets by the "Big Medicine" mafia.
> These folks  dream that their collections- which are of value
> to them and about  .001% of people with money to spend-
> are going to save them.
>  They do not understand elementry marketing.
> Ebay commands "ebay  prices" because it offers a market of
> literally millions of buyers.  That gives Ebay "pricing power."
> Even at a place like Dayton, your  gems are going to be seen
> by, at most, what- a couple of thousand?  Double that number.
> Triple it if you like; it's still a "fart in a  whirlwind" when it comes 
to
> Ebay's pricing power.
>
>  **Second- as more of us join "the choir invisible" with no  replacements
> coming behind us to soak-up the gear,
> "supply and  demand" drives prices down even more.
> High prices on new "plastic  computers with antennas" (I don't call them
> "radios" cuz they ain't  one)
> freeze-out many young people. High prices on "real" radios at  places like
> Dayton keep them out.
>
> Mathematics is a  cruel mistress. She does not give a diddly-damn how we
> feel
> or  what we think is "fair." Her rules never change.
> One can scream how  "it isn't so" and curse and blame
> and shake his fist at the  thunderstorm but in the end,
> he's still gonna get wet.
>
>  But hams are not only older- they are ever more stubborn.
> We all know  many guys who will haul that ratty R-390 priced at "$1500
> firm" back  and forth, robbing themselves of the assets they could have
> deployed  years earlier and which would have made them more in the end .
> They  will keep on doing it, red-faced and griping about "cheap hams" 
until
>  The Almighty gets tired of the comedy show and their kids throw the
>  receiver in the dumpster.
>
> Don't be a chump. There is only one  "fair price-" the one you and a buyer
> agree upon. Get your money out  of that "thing" and into something else 
that
> will do you good. Sitting  on the shelf with the "I'll never take less 
than
> this, by God!"  attitude is costing you money and grief.
> It's just a thing. You need  liquid assets- not an albatross on a shelf
> costing you  money.
>
> 73 DE Dave AB5S
>
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