[Milsurplus] Minneapolis - Navy Radio ad photos - TBK-16, TDE-2, RBB, RBC

[Nick England]

I really doubt this guy is part of the Vast CraigsList Conspiracy.
People put a Big Dollar number on an estate listing because they have to do
something and no hustler will put a low number on anything - he's just an
estate reseller/hustler so of course he puts in big $ and some "Act Now or
we shoot the puppy" BS -
So What? - estate hustlers are the people who turn up these things, not
those of us who stay at home and wait for someone to knock on the door
offering a brand new URT-23E for $50. Just ignore the BS and focus on the
Heavy Metal.

BTW the estate listing includes "hundreds of audio tubes" - which actually
do sell for lots of dollars. Who knows?
So far I haven't seen anyone post who has actually *talked* to the guy.
Yeah maybe he's holding out for gold. but I suspect that he didn't pay
anything and he's gone 10 days with no offers and he wouldn't turn down a
reasonable number like $500-1000 for the heavy metal.

But I'm just guessing, just like everyone jumping all over this guy whoever
he is. I have no idea and no connection to this sale at all. If I was near
Minneapolis I'd probably make an effort to save it and pass it on - it is
all too early for my shack.

I hesitated to send email and open the can of worms again but thought it
was at least worth letting people know there were actual photos of actual
interesting gear and it isn't all vaporware.

See you in Dayton - I'll be the guy looking for the $50 NOS URT-23E. Heck,
I'd probably settle for a used -23C.
Cheers,
Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:

> This person listing all the stuff in Minneapolis on craigslist is just
> playing you all. All this” if I don’t get $5,000 going to scrap it all” is
> a ploy to try to get the most money by working people up. The stuff is
> worth maybe $500 to a thousand dollars or maybe more to someone who wants
> it. This hack is so cheap he won’t list on EBay because he will have to pay
> a percentage to them; no way is he just going to walk away from it. He will
> take whatever the highest offer is and now with all the talking on this and
> other groups will do well. But if He is won’t give EBay a cut he won’t walk
> away from selling this stuff for $50 no less $5,000.00
> My issue is not with Craigslist, EBay or any marketplace; some may
> remember that I have sold more than a couple things on the list in the
> past. My issue is with the people who come in from the outside and use
> scare tactics, buzzwords or other mechanisms that were once just the venue
> of the used car dealers and run the price up on everything. I would like to
> own a TDE one day, don’t know why or have any good reason just want to but
> because of this fiasco everyone now knows that they start at five thousand
> dollars.
> If nothing else the seller has provided some benefit in bringing this to
> our attention and preventing this from all being scraped or landfilled and
> we do owe them something for that but can’t they do this without the added
> dramatics? “.....shame for them to be destroyed” indeed.
>
> Ray F
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