[Milsurplus] [Boatanchors] Reality Comes Knocking.

[Mark K3MSB]

I sold all but two of my "big" amateur radios about 5 years ago.   Got
asking prices from local buyers.   Never looked back.

I have a single  B&W 5100 that's been in progress for years now and a
DX-100 that I got for $50 somewhere a few years ago.   Since the 5100 has
been in progress for years it shows how interested I am in finishing it
(but it will get finished).    With the up swing in the solar cycle and 10M
coming alive, I have the impetus to finish it for 10M AM work.

Several years ago I was picking up a radio and the fellow mentioned he had
two new NIB shock mounts for the BC-442 relay.  I asked if one was for sale
as I need one for my SCR-274 setup.   He responded "I'll never sell these
-- they're too rare".   So, I'll lay dollars to donuts that those will be
(or are in) a landfill now.

Mark K3MSB








On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 10:00 AM David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> For those who've watched too much "Antique Road Show,"
> those who think selling their boatanchors are going to
> save their finances, those trying to sell common
> Heathkit/Johnson/Milradio etc. on Ebay for big bucks
> (and relisting them for months), etc. etc., please
> take note of this from a Hamcation attendee.
> These stories are becoming commonplace.
> Father Time is merciless to collectables, folks.
>
> "Update from Hamcation.
> So there was one seller in the field today who was
> offering a boatload of VERY nice boat anchors of
> various types. RCA, Johnson, etc. Beautiful receivers
> and transmitters, all said to be working, mostly going
> for $200 to $350 each. More than a dozen at bargain prices.
> Evidently he had no, or few, takers. By mid-afternoon he was
> offering the lot for $900. Methinks the boat anchor era
> really may be ending. My other thought about Hamcation,
> as I stood in the ticket line at 0830 this morning:
> "Jees, all these guys are OLD."
> (He said, the day after he turned 72.)"
>
> To which was commented:
>
> "Greying out. We’re on the shady side of the nostalgia bell-curve."
> "I think most of the boatanchor enthusiasm was driven by
> Boomer hams remembering the radios they longed for
> but could not afford as kids. As this (my) generation dies off,
> I except the market for all old radios, to continually decline."
>
> Advice from one who once sold estates: What one *thinks*
> it's worth means nothing. It's "worth" what a buyer and seller
> agree at that moment, and that's all.
>
> Also- If one cannot sell an item, be it radios, rubies or radishes,
> there is always and forever *one* reason- the price is too high.
> If the price is right for the buyer at that moment,
> you can sell fire to the Devil.  Being stubborn about "getting
> my price or die!" is just "cutting off your nose to spite your face."
> Get what you can so you can stop leaking value away
> (time-value of money).  Deploy those assets elsewhere
> and move on, while you still can.
>
>
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