In a similar vein I have had people tell me about setting a perfectly good unneeded household item on the curb with a "free" sign on it. After being there for a while with lots of traffic but no takers they put a sign on it that read $20 and quickly had a taker.
I wasn't fooled by this recently. At a hamfest an old guy had a minty vintage 6 Meter Yaesu SSB rig on a table with a "free" sign. He mumbled something about missing crystals. Yeah, right... It had been there a while and I actually stood by the table chatting with an old friend for several minutes before I said to heck with it and grabbed it. With original box, manual, mic, and the unobtanium but much sought power cord.
Well, guess what? No crystals were missing. As I suspected what he was seeing was the empty fixed frequency crystal sockets on the top side. All the original het crystals are there. RX and TX work and power output is at spec. Alignment needs a little touch-up but I'm not gonna ask for my money back. :)
Cost does not necessarily reflect value.
73
-Jim
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 21:21:25 -0500
"Mike C." <mg@...> wrote:
You are absolutely correct, people perceive cost (cheapness) to similar
quality. Big mistake on their part. True Story: As a side business a
friend of mine and me purchased government surplus.
Jim Shorney