[Milsurplus] Dayton Findings, Ebay Pricings

John Flood kb1fqg at yahoo.com
Tue May 21 11:25:58 EDT 2013 

When Gene gets buried (in stuff not dirt!!!) send the rest to the "KB1FQG Home For Wayward Boatanchors"!!!  :)

John



>________________________________
> From: J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com>
>To: W2HX <w2hx at w2hx.com> 
>Cc: "milsurplus at mailman.qth.net" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net> 
>Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 8:48 AM
>Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Dayton Findings, Ebay Pricings
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>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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>> [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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