I should mention that the TR7 I sold was off QRZ. No commission, I could use my choice in shipping and payment. Yeah, I love it when you can sell at a profit with low overhead.
Basically, I enjoy fixing these things, playing with them for awhile, finding better ones and selling the previous one. I've been able to make enough to keep my hobby self-supporting. I currently also have three Drake sets and a power supply on my "on-deck" circle that belong to other hams who pay me to work on them.
Besides the TR7A with PS7 and 7077, my Drake stable has all three major sets of Twins, a TR-4Cw RIT, TR-6, 2-B, 1-A, an extra T-4XB and an L7. I acquire them as I go along and lots of my ham friends know that I'm "into" Drake stuff and they send info along.
Besides the Drake gear, I have a Collins S Line with amp, a TS-830S and a TenTec Omni VI with the Plus added on. This group of gear came to me with an Omni V, another R-4A and a second 75S-3B and I got the whole pile, as-is, for $400. I made more than that back when I fixed and sold the extra 75S-3B. Then fixed and sold the R-4A and diagnosed the Omni V and sold it, as is, to a happy buyer. Not that it matters but I still live in the same house and still drive the same 2015 car.
Steve Wedge, W1ES/4
Time flies like an arrow.? Fruit flies like a banana.
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On Monday, March 25th, 2024 at 3:11 PM, Jim Shorney <jimNU0C@...> wrote:
An old salesman once said "don't charge a fair price, charge what the market will bear". If someone wants to spend that kind of money on a 1-A, that's fine. If no one bites the price will be reduced.
I have gotten most of my good deals locally and some are almost legendary. Minty one owner R7A for $450, gently used L4B offered to me for $450 by a local who knew that I like Drake, an estate purchase of a TR7 station that netted me an L7 for about $150 after I cleaned the rest up and re-sold it to another local. Picked up a lonely PS7 for $75 at a fest a couple years ago so now I have one for each of my TR7s. Another local who likes to deal in used radios offered me a nice NC300 for 40 bucks just because he wanted to get it gone. A list member sold me an R7 a few years back for $300 because no one else was interested. One of my TR7s also from a list member for $150 as a fixer-upper. I won't even mention my deal of the century on the pair of Alphas....
Ebay? What's that? :D
73
-Jim
NU0C
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:41:35 +0000
"Steve Wedge, W1ES/4 via groups.io" w1es@... wrote:
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
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On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 13:56, Lyndon VE7TFX <[lyndon@...](mailto:On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 13:56, Lyndon VE7TFX <<a href=)> 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
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73
-Jim
NU0C
