[R-390] Radio Mart burned my @#$%$ again

[Keith Densmore]

Most people blame ebay for the higher prices charged for classic 
boatanchors.
I think the real culprit is something we can actually do something about and 
which we are almost all guilty of, more or less--HOARDING.
How many of us (unfortunately myself included) have radios that we never 
use, maybe never even  turned on. Some people have 10's,  some 100's,  and a 
few even in the 1000's of shelf queens. Every radio taken out of circulation 
drives up the price of those that are in circulation. My guess is that if we 
only kept the radios we use and sold the rest, a price for a good  R-390A 
would drop to 200.00.
73 All,
Keith VE3TS




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grant Youngman" <nq5t at tx.rr.com>
To: <R-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 3:20 PM
Subject: RE: [R-390] Radio Mart burned my @#$%$ again


>> I think that is the biggest issue with this whole thing.  A
>> fellow looking
>> for a decent radio at a decent price was bested by a fellow
>> who is only in
>> the business to buy and resell.  And do it in a way that
>> usually makes many
>> of us sick.
>
> 1.  Sniping is a standard method of buying on eBay.  The sniper's 
> advantage
> is that his bid is placed in the last few seconds of the auction, and 
> there
> is generally not time to come in with a manually entered bid at a higher
> price.
> 2.  Sniping ONLY wins if the bid placed by the sniper is greater than the
> maximum bid placed by whomever the otherwise high bidder is.
> 3.  If the "then current" high bidder (apparently viewed as the "good 
> guy")
> had placed a maximum bid higher than the sniper's maximum bid, the sniper
> would have lost.
>
> That's why, when one places a bid on eBay, one should place a bid at the
> maximum amount you're willing to pay.  If someone else comes along and is
> willing to pay more, they win the item.  No fault, no foul.  You
> (collective, not personal) didn't pay too much (and then spend the next 
> 250
> messages on a reflector grumbling about how you got scr*wed on eBay); he
> paid what he was willing to pay.  I see nothing wrong with that.  Ebay, or
> ANY auction, is all about who's willing to pay the most, not about who the
> good guys are or who the bad guys are, or some notion that the "good guy"
> should get a good price because he's just a great down home all around
> decent guy with sweet grandkids.
>
> More than once I've been ready to close a deal at a 'fest, with money in
> hand, when somebody else walks up and 'snipes' my offer.  I didn't want to
> pay that much, and walked.  I did NOT get sick.  There's always another
> Excelsior 3500X with SSB mod and extra front panel holes, or whatever,
> somewhere.  And half the time when you finally get your hands on something
> you just knew you couldn't live without, you find out it isn't quite what 
> it
> was cracked up to be, anyway :-)
>
> Grant/NQ5T
>
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