[Milsurplus] Dayton Findings, Ebay Pricings

John Flood kb1fqg at yahoo.com
Tue May 21 11:47:04 EDT 2013


Clete,

Problem solved!!!!  Adopt me!!!  On a more realistic note, I do hope that you have some guys out there who will help when the time comes.  As I tell a couple of guys out here who have asked me to do the same for them when the time comes. "Yes I'd be happy to help but lets hope that I don't have to do that for a long time to come!"

John 
KB1FQG



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> From: C.Whitaker <whitaker at pa.net>
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>Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Dayton Findings, Ebay Pricings
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>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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