On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 08:16:20 UTC, "Phil Nelson"
wrote:

Bet there is a buyer, and consider how much better this investment is than
if someone had purchased $15,000 of Polaroid, Enron or Xerox.

Folks, if you want to invest, get yourself some nice, safe, not to mention
unbreakable-and-non-rusting bonds or mutual funds.

Anybody who buys radio stuff (of which I have way too much) for investment
purposes is in serious need of professional therapy.

If I had bought $15,000 worth of MSFT in 1985, I could probably buy the
world's supply of KW-1s and then cruise off in my spoiled-brat boat from my
condo on St. Barts for a vacation in Hawaii.

If I had bought one of these for $15,000 in 1985 and could now sell it for
$20,000 (figuring in storage fees etc. as needed) , well . . . you do the
math. Maybe I could buy a medium-sized plasma TV. Not the most thrilling
return for a 20-year investment.

If you like old radio stuff, buy it for love, not for money. And don't bet
your retirement or your kids' college money on it :-)

Regards,

Phil Nelson
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html


Oh, there's far better paper than MSFT. Consider "Fantastic Four
#1", now a major motion picture. That cost 10› at one time. How
old were you in 1961?

How many of you had a copy of "X-Men" #1? What happened to it?

According to the current issue of "Overstreet", the comic book price
guide, those two together in near-mint condition are over fifty
thousand dollars.






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