[R-390] R-389 Sold For $3550.00 on eBay

[Gregory W. Moore]

GM, Bruce,

As much as I believe in Free Enterprise, etc, etc, and do feel that if 
someone wants to sell an item, and someone else is willing to pay X 
number of dollars for it, regardless of how outrageous that X number of 
dollars might be, I feel that EBay has done one large disservice to the 
Amateur radio/Milspec collector/Greenkey groups as such.

There are a large percentage of sellers on there who are middlemen 
(middlepersons?) and nothing more, like a bunch of vulturous used car 
salesmen.  They know nothing about equipment, the use therof, or the 
value, but they know how to write a good story  (The eternally 
reappearing black panel R-390 is a good example of the "good story")

The other problem is the "breakers", I have seen, as I know you all 
have, perfectly good pieces of equipment chopped and sold as parts. 
This, of course, always makes me wonder if, just like a chop shop for 
cars, the stuff is stolen, or obtained thru nefarious channels.

I also don't like the darn shill bidding that goes on, and the programs 
making automatic bidding possible... maybe I'm just a disallusioned 
dinosaur, but that's the way I feel.  Of course, with the cost of 
shipping stuff nowadays, there just aren't any bargains...

of course, this is just my IMHO..

73 de Greg "GW" Moore WA3IVX/NNN0BVN

Bruce Hagen wrote:

> So much for my thoughts of buying one just to have it along side of the 390!
> Wow!
> 
> Bruce Hagen
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On
> Behalf Of ToddRoberts2001 at aol.com
> Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 8:37 PM
> To: r-390 at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [R-390] R-389 Sold For $3550.00 on eBay
> 
> All I can say is Wow!  Is this a new record for an R-389? I think the most I
> have seen one go for in the past was about $2200 -$2500. 73 Todd WD4NGG
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/Collins-R-389-URR-VLF-Receiver_W0QQitemZ5827538496QQcate
> go
> ryZ4673QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
> 
> 
> Or by item number - 5827538496
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