[Milsurplus] Seen at Fair Radio this AM - prices

[Peter Gottlieb]

Shipping charges have definitely gotten crazy, lately I’ve seen costs over $3 a pound.  Some people don’t consider these charges but when you do it makes a road trip to Fair a good time to get heavy items and adds latitude on pricing. 


Peter

> On May 18, 2018, at 11:43 AM, Richard <brunneraa1p at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Yes indeed, back in the surplus days the good stuff was never cheap.  Even $40 to $50 for a BC-348 was a challenge for impoverished Hams. (like me)  Also shipping charges were not so bad back then.
> 
> Richard, AA1P
> 
> 
>> On 05/18/2018 11:26 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
>> Well, as Jeep so accurately pointed out in a recent ER article of his on the SX-71, $179.95
>> in the 1950s is equivalent to over $1800.00 today.
>> 
>> I know I sure could not have dug up that sort of money then....nor now either.
>> 
>> A $450.00 HRO-60 in 1956 is equivalent to $4125.64 today.
>> 
>> I remember, with great sadness, once being offered an almost new Packard 1936 V-12
>> Limousine for $1000.00. It was light green with dual 20" fender-mounted spares, among
>> other goodies, and it ran like a top. It was beautiful.
>> 
>> I went all over town contacting everyone I knew, trying to either borrow the money, or
>> getting someone to buy it, and no deal anywhere.
>> 
>> That would be a bit over $8600.00 today.
>> 
>> Someone from Chicago bought it a day or two later and had it trucked out there.
>> 
>> Sigh... :-(
>> 
>> Ken W7EKB
>> 
>> 
> 
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