[NJARC] Re: NJARC and the National Receiver

[John Dilks - K2TQN]

At 07:56 AM 4/12/04, you wrote:
>Hi John,
>   This is true ! Apparently others in the club were upset about this to 
> the point of actually forming a COMMITTEE to review further disposition 
> of future acquisitions! In my opinion his is quite an immature reaction 
> which was completely uncalled for!! I am sure there are MANY club members 
> who sell on ebay(does everyone keep everything?). Is there a difference 
> between a collector who sells on ebay vs a collector who sells at a swap 
> meet or thru the ARC?? The National was sold by the club at auction 
> without strings attached! (or am I wrong?). Quite an expensive purchase,I 
> might add! It is sad to see mature men act in the manner that some of 
> those at the NJARC have in this matter. You should have seen them at the 
> April meeting! Your comments are welcome.
>Frank


Frank,

I'm sorry you feel this way.  From this point on I will neither sell to 
you, nor purchase anything from you, and I will encourage others to do the 
same.  I used to think you were one of the "good guys", but you have 
disappointed me.

Based on your comments above, it is quite obvious that you don't care about 
the club at all.  I'm sure, in time, the club won't care at all about you.

You know, the club could have sold that radio on ebay if it were for just 
the money. But many of us wanted it to go into a members collection, rather 
than to be sold on ebay as some had suggested earlier.   So we convinced 
the officers to auction it locally and we had it in a club auction just for 
members.  Thanks to you, it ended up being sold on ebay anyway - and at 
quite a profit.

I fear your ebay actions may have forever changed the directions of 
auctions at the NJARC in the future, and none of us will ever get the 
opportunity to bid on something nice for our collections there ever again.

In the interest of keeping interesting things in our auctions, several of 
us will try to have a policy adopted, for when selling "club owned" "ebay 
bait" at auction, the winning bidder will have to sign a document promising 
not to sell or trade the item for (at least) 12 months, and that they are 
buying it for their collections.  Hopefully that will stop profiteers like 
you from coming in and ruining the club auctions.

As it stands right now, they want to stop offering nice things, and to only 
ebay them - thereby removing member benefits and diminishing the value of 
our memberships.

I and many others have worked very hard in the past to solicit, and go 
pick-up, and then sort, and store items for the club, just so we could have 
an auction, and to provide items at reasonable prices for members who are 
new or who do not have the ability to find parts on their own; to help them 
get started collecting and restoring radios.

This is what a club should be all about, helping each other - not helping 
our selves.

John Dilks