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It is easy to start off asking for a high price and lowering the asking price.? At hamfests I have bought and sold things at a price I wanted or walked away or? kept the items if the price was not to my liking.? As the day goes on the prices often get less.
Probably the most expensive thing on earth for size or weight is totally useless.?? An old used postage stamp last sold for 8.3 million dollars.
I think that is the only remaining one in the world. ?British Guiana 1c Magenta
Ralph ku4pt
On Monday, March 25, 2024 at 03:11:34 PM EDT, 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
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On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:17:47 +0000 (UTC) "Paul Ellis via groups.io" <paulz67@...> wrote: Disclaimer: Your reality may vary. You kill me, man! I'm not sure I want to know about your reality.... :D I forgot to mention the nice R-390/A with original meters that I bought from Evan (NOT the Evan in this group) for $150. -- 73 -Jim NU0C
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On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 12:11 PM, Jim Shorney 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
I just sold three vacuum tubes (old Western Electric) that I had found in one of the boxes of random pulls and NOS that I bought? 20+ yrs ago and never opened. They'd been lying on the garage floor since last November when I ran across them and I thought I should toss them on the 'Bay before I forgot about them for another 3 months.
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The three sold quickly enough to pay for half the cost of a new FTDX101D I now have on order.? :-)
John K5MO
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John...nice going.? May we ask what the tubes were?? I fear I have a few "finds" lying dormant and lost in my tube stash too.
73 Peter VE7PS
On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 2:25?PM John K5MO < johnk5mo@...> wrote: On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 12:11 PM, Jim Shorney 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
I just sold three vacuum tubes (old Western Electric) that I had found in one of the boxes of random pulls and NOS that I bought? 20+ yrs ago and never opened. They'd been lying on the garage floor since last November when I ran across them and I thought I should toss them on the 'Bay before I forgot about them for another 3 months.
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The three sold quickly enough to pay for half the cost of a new FTDX101D I now have on order.? :-)
John K5MO
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On 2024-03-25 13:24, Ralph Mowery via groups.io wrote: It is easy to start off asking for a high price and lowering the
asking price. At hamfests I have bought and sold things at a price I
wanted or walked away *** I generally start walking way when the seller says "On Ebay these go for...." - Jerry, KF6VB
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On 2024-03-25 14:25, John K5MO wrote: On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 12:11 PM, Jim Shorney wrote: I just sold three vacuum tubes The three sold quickly enough to pay for half the cost of a new
FTDX101D I now have on order. :-) *** Many moons ago, I got three TV7D/U tube testers at the ham swap for $20 each. The price those things get on Ebay now.... is eye-watering. I think it's driven by audiophiles. - Jerry, KF6VB
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On 3/25/24 12:56, Lyndon VE7TFX 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. Sounds a bit like the TR7 and PS7 I have.? I got them not long after I became a ham almost 10 years ago.? I went to a hamfest in Tullahoma TN, which isn't too far from my QTH.? While walking around I saw a TR7 and PS7 under the table of one vendor.? I ask what he wanted for the TR7 and PS7.? He said $50.? I said SOLD!? The TR7 had LOTS of problems, but with help from Jim, NU0C, I nursed it back to health. TR7 is throwing fits on 40 meters again though.? Suspect it has another bad connection in the high pass filter like it had before since the output is down to around 10 watts. :(? Barely enough to drive the L-4B to about 100 watts. 73 Stan KM4HQE
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This looks downright reasonable compared to my experience. I paid $1995 for mine in 2021 and was roundly criticized for paying too much, hi. Live and learn.
73, Randy K7RAN
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I do hope it was a pristine example. When prices are at the top, condition is everything.?
Steve Wedge, W1ES/4
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 10:02, Randy K7RAN < k7ran@...> wrote: This looks downright reasonable compared to my experience. I paid $1995 for mine in 2021 and was roundly criticized for paying too much, hi. Live and learn.
73, Randy K7RAN
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If you can afford the expense and it makes you happy then all is good! Enjoy! 73 -Jim NU0C On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 07:02:14 -0700 "Randy K7RAN" <k7ran@...> wrote: This looks downright reasonable compared to my experience. I paid $1995 for mine in 2021 and was roundly criticized for paying too much, hi. Live and learn.
73, Randy K7RAN
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Exactly.
Steve Wedge, W1ES/4
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 11:16 AM, Jim Shorney < jimNU0C@...> wrote:
If you can afford the expense and it makes you happy then all is good! Enjoy!
73
-Jim
NU0C
On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 07:02:14 -0700
"Randy K7RAN" <k7ran@...> wrote:
> This looks downright reasonable compared to my experience. I paid $1995 for mine in 2021 and was roundly criticized for paying too much, hi. Live and learn.
> 73, Randy K7RAN
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I do hope it was a pristine example. When prices are at the top,
condition is everything. This is rapidly drifting off topic, but in this spirit, what are RV-75s going for these days, and is there anything close to a settled price for one in "good, not necessarily pristine" condition? K6OXN mentioned he recently picked one up for "a reasonable price" but didn't say what that was. Then there was the January fiasco with the $3500 dollar sale (which I can't find when I try to search eBay's sold items history?). And people are constantly harping about how they want one of these. And yet a couple of weeks ago one went up for sale on eBay. It garnered about 30 watchers, and attracted all of seven bids from three bidders. I was expecting a full-on pileup at the end of that auction as everyone tried to outbid everyone else. And ... nada. Where was everyone?!? It ended up selling for ~US$530. A surprisingly low price IMO considering the pent up demand for these. I don't understand this supply and demand marketplace :-) --lyndon
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$ US 3500 for an RV-75????? Wow!? Darn...I missed that one!? I'll get over it.
Makes me wonder what my TR-7A with the "built-in RV-75" is worth....aka the Drake TR-4310.??
Like everything else I guess....it's only worth whatever a buyer is willing to pay at any given time.?
Not for sale anyways (yet!).
PS
On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 9:44?AM Lyndon VE7TFX < lyndon@...> wrote: > I do hope it was a pristine example. When prices are at the top,
> condition is everything.
This is rapidly drifting off topic, but in this spirit, what are
RV-75s going for these days, and is there anything close to a settled
price for one in "good, not necessarily pristine" condition?
K6OXN mentioned he recently picked one up for "a reasonable price"
but didn't say what that was.? Then there was the January fiasco
with the $3500 dollar sale (which I can't find when I try to search
eBay's sold items history?).? And people are constantly harping
about how they want one of these.
And yet a couple of weeks ago one went up for sale on eBay.? It
garnered about 30 watchers, and attracted all of seven bids from
three bidders.? I was expecting a full-on pileup at the end of that
auction as everyone tried to outbid everyone else.? And ... nada.
Where was everyone?!?
It ended up selling for ~US$530.? A surprisingly low price IMO
considering the pent up demand for these.
I don't understand this supply and demand marketplace :-)
--lyndon
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Folks:
I have stated several times that the $3,500 "sale" never happened. I
fat-fingered a last second bid and then retracted it. I didn't intend to
create a "fiasco". Hope this puts it to rest, once and for all.
Best 73,
joe
joseph n. graif
k4jng
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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] < [email protected]> On Behalf Of Lyndon VE7TFX Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2024 12:45 PM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [DRAKE-RADIO] 1-A on eBay I do hope it was a pristine example. When prices are at the top,
condition is everything. This is rapidly drifting off topic, but in this spirit, what are RV-75s going for these days, and is there anything close to a settled price for one in "good, not necessarily pristine" condition? K6OXN mentioned he recently picked one up for "a reasonable price" but didn't say what that was. Then there was the January fiasco with the $3500 dollar sale (which I can't find when I try to search eBay's sold items history?). And people are constantly harping about how they want one of these. And yet a couple of weeks ago one went up for sale on eBay. It garnered about 30 watchers, and attracted all of seven bids from three bidders. I was expecting a full-on pileup at the end of that auction as everyone tried to outbid everyone else. And ... nada. Where was everyone?!? It ended up selling for ~US$530. A surprisingly low price IMO considering the pent up demand for these. I don't understand this supply and demand marketplace :-) --lyndon
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Joseph K4JNG writes:
I have stated several times that the $3,500 "sale" never happened. I
fat-fingered a last second bid and then retracted it. I didn't intend to
create a "fiasco". Hope this puts it to rest, once and for all.
Oh, I get it now. So it didn't go for the other sellers max bid of $3500. Do you recall what it did sell for? I still can't track that sale down in eBay's sales history. (I have noticed some inconsistency there lately. Some auctions show up when I search ebay.com, but are absent from ebay.ca, even though the seller lists Canadian shipping. Just weird ...) --lyndon
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Jim Shorney
Randy K7RAN
Joseph K4JNG