[Milsurplus] Dayton Findings, Ebay Pricings

Tue May 21 08:05:54 EDT 2013

de WB2CPN
Speaking personally, and maybe out of order, but the worst
feer I have about dieing is what can I do with all this stuff here.
Not just electronics, but everything else.
No heirs, they're gone.   I'm older than I ever thought I'd be.
7823  Clete
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On 5/20/2013 9:30 PM, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
> 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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