[Milsurplus] Dayton Findings, Ebay Pricings

J. Forster jfor at quikus.com
Tue May 21 08:48:41 EDT 2013 

Be careful what you ask for, Gene. You might need a very big warehouse!

-John

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> Simple. Bequeath it to me! hihi
>
>
> 73 Eugene W2HX
>
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> [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Peter Gottlieb
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 8:14 AM
> To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Dayton Findings, Ebay Pricings
>
> I'm not all that old but can't really answer my wife's question of what
> she would do with all my stuff if something were to happen to me.  There
> are some pretty valuable things in there ebay-wise but how would she know,
> and how would she deal with them?
>
>
> On 5/21/2013 8:05 AM, C.Whitaker wrote:
>> 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
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 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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