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

[Guido Santacana]

Amen! Someone finally hit the spot.

73s
Guido Santacana KP4FAR

Keith Densmore wrote:
> 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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