[Milsurplus] SCR-288 ( BC-474 ) Change 1, May 1944

[Hubert Miller]

The SCR-288 set now on Ebay is mine. I let my brother sell off much of my stuff as i downsize, as he has a very minimal income.
I do not much manage his work. I think this listing is not well done at all and i will give him some suggestions, but it’s up to him.
What and how he does, does not affect my own Ebay reputation, which is important to me. My preference, and the way i usually
do auctions, is just list it for the minimum i would take and let the auction process proceed. Usually. We did learn a good lesson
earlier on. He had 2 of German ‘FuSprech A’ armored car and SP gun radios, a cute little 24 MHz AM voice transceiver. He sold
them both for about $1900 each to Ebay bidder ‘Messerschmidt’, which we thought was doing okay. One week later Ebay seller
‘Messerschmidt’ sold on his own militaria website store, one of these 2 for twice what he bought it for, and kept the other, which
made the one he kept, essentially cost-free for him. We did learn from that, believe me ! So if you have the time, are not desperate
or in a hurry, and your auction item is not common at all, maybe even accurately described using the overused term “rare”, you
might want to do a “reverse auction”, where the seller gradually lowers the price until it sells. In such case, the 7 or 10 day auction
window may just not be enough or the auction format may not necessarily work to your advantage. An example would be the
BC-1209 ( SCR-583 ) he recently sold. One of 2 i know of. The buyer, from what i heard of the sale, is, well, not very savy about
radios or their values, but his money was green, and so be it. Buyer also got 1 of 3 manuals i know of. Years ago, around 1980, i
gave one copy of the manual i received with this G&G purchase, to Tony Grogan, and who knows where this manual went, when he
passed away. I “believe” i still have one SCR-583 manual, but if not, so be it, also; i just couldn’t get it together enough to scan in
the manual i mailed away.
-Hue Miller
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