[NJARC] Mr. Capacitor's two cents

[donald ball]

    Hi All,

          Tom's suggestion of offering to members first makes sense to 
me. If this were to go to a vote
I would vote that we try this before we get all tangled up with Ebay and 
Packing and Shipping etc.

   Regards to all,  Don

Thomas Lee wrote:
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> Hi John, All,
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> perhaps a fair compromise would be to offer the "choice" items to members first at a fair market value or a sight below member discount?  If it doesn't go, then ebay?
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> Tom
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>> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:31:12 -0800
>> From: jr6v6gt at yahoo.com
>> To: thomas_v_lee at hotmail.com; al at ar88.net
>> CC: njarc at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [NJARC] Mr. Capacitor's two cents
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>> Just remember 
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>> Hi Al,
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>> Very well put -- that's *exactly* the scenario I'm talking about.
>>
>> Tom, if you get a $50 radio at one of our auctions for $20, or a $100 radio for $50, that's fine -- you got a bargain -- good for you. I think we're all in favor of having fun and getting bargains at the auctions.
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>> However, if we sell a hypothetical $500 ebay item for, say, $200 at our auction to someone whose only intention is to flip it on ebay, then we -- THE NJARC TREASURY -- should be benefitting from the market value of that item, not one individual.
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>> A while ago I offered the services of a friend who has done ebay consignments since 2001. This also fell on deaf ears. I agree it's time-consuming to sell on ebay -- but for the *choicest* items, it will be well worth it for the club treasury. I volunteer to help with the ebay sales.
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>> Regards,
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>> John
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>> --- On Tue, 2/24/09, Al Klase <al at ar88.net> wrote:
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>>> From: Al Klase <al at ar88.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [NJARC] Mr. Capacitor's two cents
>>> To: "Thomas Lee" <thomas_v_lee at hotmail.com>
>>> Cc: "John R" <jr6v6gt at yahoo.com>, "NJARC" <njarc at mailman.qth.net>
>>> Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 12:43 PM
>>> Thomas Lee wrote:
>>>
>>> .........So I would say trying to sell *Choice" items
>>> on ebay rather than offer them to members first is against
>>> the spirit of the clubs charter. 
>>> Hi Tom,
>>>
>>> Well, therein lies the rub. Let's consider something
>>> like a WE 300B triode. (I don't actually know that we
>>> have any, but we certainly have similar things.) These sell
>>> for $1000 on E-bay all the time. If we were to offer such
>>> an item at, say $300, as part of the tube program, I can
>>> guarantee you Ebay people would be on it like ugly on a
>>> monkey. If we auction such an item, again it's likely
>>> that a similar thing would happen. Yes, if you had actual
>>> need for one, and outbid the E-folks at $500, it would be a
>>> good deal for you. However, I feel we'd just be dumping
>>> the vast majority of items into the hands of resellers. 
>>> An NJARC E-bay committee might be the way to handle this,
>>> but who's going to do the work? Don't all volunteer
>>> at once! Perhaps we need an "agent", maybe a club
>>> member who would do the transactions for a percentage.
>>>
>>> The tubes are the major problem here, because the whole
>>> situation is driven by audiophoul nonsense, rather than
>>> simple radio derangement syndrome. However, it's a
>>> problem we need to resolve. There is significant money
>>> involved here.
>>>
>>> Imagine the last three Alzheimer's ridden NJARC members
>>> with a huge pile of tubes in 2039. Some young squirt will
>>> end up hauling them (the tubes that is) away to keep them
>>> out of the dump. It's a matter of exercising proper
>>> stewardship of the clubs resources.
>>>
>>> Later,
>>> Al
>>>
>>> -- Al Klase - N3FRQ
>>> Jersey City, NJ
>>> http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/
>>>       
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