Why does it bother people when someone knows how to market something and makes a good profit? ?I don¡¯t understand the mindset.?
Having said that, such deals come up, even at hamfests. My first TR7 came from Shelby in 2019, for $350 and included a PS7 and the matching mic. Also an AUX-7 And fully-stuffed filter board. I was expecting to have to do some work on it but it fired right up and worked great!
I still have the filter board in my TR7A (I swapped because I liked the selection better) and am using the PS7 and mic. Oh ¡ª and (Grumble! Grumble!) sold the TR7 for $550. It was in really nice shape and was worth that price.?
73,
Steve Wedge, W1ES/4
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 13:56, Lyndon VE7TFX <
lyndon@...> wrote:
Rick W4XA writes:
> The down-side of it is, we'll spend pretty good money to get cool vintage s=
> tuff and when it's all over, if someone doesn't jump in and help to sell th=
> e "stuff" our "non-ham" kids will either "give" it away or haul it to a lan=
> dfill!
Case in point: two weeks ago I landed a TR-7, PS-7, MS-7, and a
Drake desk might of unknown model number for CAD$250. That's about
$195 in real money.
How did this happen? The back story: the fellow I bought it from
didn't want it because it was too big for his desk and he preferred
his smaller more modern rig. He obviously did not know what he
had, and just wanted to get rid of it.
He bought it from the BCIT radio club (British Columbia Institute
of Technology). My guess is that the club shut down for a couple
of years because virus. When the new crop of 20-somethings arrived,
they likely looked at the radio and said "no SDR -- eeewww! no
touchscreen -- eewww! old -- eewww!!!" and sold it very cheap as
an old boat anchor. It had obviously been sitting on the shelf for
a long while. I had to have at it with the deoxit on the band
switch, the PBT switch, and the RV-7 connector to get it functioning
again. I still need to strip it down and give it a complete
scrubbing. But I got a complete working TR-7 (loaded with filters)
for a song.
They don't all wind up in the landfill :-) And sometimes I have
no qualms about taking advantage of people's lack of knowledge of
history.
At least it didn't go to an eBuy grifter who would immediately try
to resell it for $1200.
And yeah, I'm still trying to figure out how to rewrite my will so
that my stack of gear doesn't end up on eBuy ... (or in the landfill)
--lyndon
