[Premium-Rx] Things must be really bad when...

[Tim Shoppa]

Walter Salmaniw <salmaniw at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Wow, I never thought I'd see a Ten Tex RX-340 go unsold on eBay
> with a starting bid of $2000.  Absolutely no interest, and the
> vendor has a 100% rating.  Are things that bad south of the 49th?

Nothing against Ten-Tec: My favorite "solid state" rig is a
Ten-Tec Triton IV that was manufactured in 1976 or so. It works just
fine in 2009. If something ever did go wrong, I could probably
still get the parts from Ten-Tec.

But as far as collectible premium radios go... at some point many
of have decided that unless there is something historical or unique
or personally attaching to a model, that we already have enough
radios. The RX-340 is just too new to be collectible.

Somebody else has already responded as if premium radios are
an investment. Sounds like a good excuse for buying them when
they're cheap, but really I already have too many radios.

In fact I have talked with the sales staff at Ten-Tec about getting
a new Omni VII. I'm not Mr. Money-Pants, but I could afford it (especially
considering that I know because it's a Ten-Tec that the cost could
be amortized over 20-30 years.) But in the end... the old radios work just fine.  
Tim.