[Milsurplus] [MMRCG] Estate Mystery

[Joe Connor]

 Bob, the widow-robbers weren't limited to ham radio. Antique/junk dealers would do an elderly person a favor by taking all that old junk off his/her hands. That old junk, of course, was valuable antiques. I had an elderly aunt who got ripped off that way. She really thought that dealer was doing her a favor. 
                           Joe Connor
    On Friday, October 23, 2020, 10:54:24 AM EDT, Robert Nickels <ranickel at comcast.net> wrote:  
 
 On 10/22/2020 11:39 PM, Hubert Miller wrote:
> What happened "before the internet" was you had estate sales of huge amounts of things,
> all kind of things, with attendance from just a few friends of friends to whomever managed
> to hear about it. Those were a real circus, fun like crazy to attend.

Those were also the days when the "widder robbers" had a heyday and took 
advantage of naive sellers.   My first experience with that was in the 
mid-70s when a ham in a nearby town had become a silent key and someone 
at the radio club mentioned that his widow was selling off his radio 
equipment.   When I called her she said it was all gone, and that it 
turned out not to be worth much anyway, according to the guy who bought 
it all, as she only got $100 for everything.    I asked if she happened 
to remember that the model numbers were and she got her list and read 
off all the components of a complete Collins S-Line.

That kind of thing was crazy too, but not in a good way. Internet sales 
and auctions have been a good thing overall.

73, Bob W9RAN

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