On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:03:37 -0400, Straydog wrote:

Yep, its definitely on the high side. Might be OK for eBay where the
shills bid against you to artificially raise the prices (now you know
another reason for identity theft) and people are so nuts about something
that they will pay out double or triple a decent hamfest price for
something in their dreams.

Yeah, the trouble with that is, the next words out of his mouth after he
told me his asking price were "If I can't get that for it, I'll just put
it on ebay".

By now pretty much everybody knows about ebay and they know they can get
hundreds more than the true worth of something, which of course then only
serves to raise the "true worth of something" if you define "worth" as
"whatever someone will pay for it".

I asked him to call me if he hadn't sold the radio by the end of the
hamfest and I haven't heard from him, so maybe it's moot and he managed to
convince someone to give him his price for it.

Rick wrote:

...
I asked him to call me if he hadn't sold the radio by the end of the
hamfest and I haven't heard from him, so maybe it's moot and he managed to
convince someone to give him his price for it.


Check ebay, maybe the old coot went ahead and put 'er up 'fer bid! :-$

JS

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:52:49 -0800, John Smith I wrote:

Check ebay, maybe the old coot went ahead and put 'er up 'fer bid! :-$

Oh, I have, and do, regularly. I check ebay at least twice a week.

As I write this I have a web browser up on ebay's "Completed Sales" page
for "Hammarlund 180". I see three of them as having sold in the last
(however long it is that those listings stay on "Completed Sales"... 30
days I think). One went for $300, one went for $500, and one went for
$610. The $500 one was the "A" model and the other two were straight 180's.

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:52:49 -0800, John Smith I wrote:

Check ebay, maybe the old coot went ahead and put 'er up 'fer bid! :-$

I'll be darned! He really did put it up on ebay, item number
150103567136, with a starting bid of $475 (no bids yet) and a "Buy It Now"
price of $750.

The guy at the hamfest said he was from Ashburnham, MA, so I'm certain
that's the one I saw at the hamfest.

This is going to be interesting. :-)

Rick wrote:
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:52:49 -0800, John Smith I wrote:


Check ebay, maybe the old coot went ahead and put 'er up 'fer bid! :-$


I'll be darned! He really did put it up on ebay, item number
150103567136, with a starting bid of $475 (no bids yet) and a "Buy It Now"
price of $750.

The guy at the hamfest said he was from Ashburnham, MA, so I'm certain
that's the one I saw at the hamfest.

This is going to be interesting. :-)


I saw that on eBay. I was going to post the reference for you.

Nice to know it is 'TESTED' though.

BTW: I've been watching for a Johnson Ranger. One is listed with a buy it now
price of [are you ready?] $1000.00 !!! for a 30 watt AM radio!!!

YIPES!!

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:35:28 -0400, Rick wrote:

By now pretty much everybody knows about ebay and they know they can get
hundreds more than the true worth of something, which of course then only
serves to raise the "true worth of something" if you define "worth" as
"whatever someone will pay for it".

eBay's a pretty true arbiter of popularity and true market value. It doesn't,
for example, inflate the price of pieces of art at all -- in fact, there are
many true bargains to be had. The same is generally true of cars and
motorcycles.

Just because some idiots are willing to pay more than full retail for brand new,
commonly-available items is not an indictment of eBay, but of the ignorance of
those buyers.

The same is true for ham radio items -- there's a comparatively tiny population
of interested parties, and no sophisticated network providing an accurate
compilation of recent equipment sales prices. Vintage items are truly worth
whatever someone is willing to pay.

-- Larry

Also keep in mind that eBay is an international marketplace. With
potentially thousands of eyes looking at your item, there's a bigger chance
that one or two people might decide that they just can't live without it. As
opposed to a hamfest or swap meet, where it may be seen by a few hundred
people at most, and perhaps none of them happens to be interested on that
day.

Phil Nelson

I have observed prices on Ebay and elsewhere,
and they have been steadily rising for excellent
condition 180s -- the 180C goes for slightly less,
which is interesting, because I started on a
180 and thought it might have better sensitivity.

But I say again -- excellent 180As and especially
180AX version with no major marks on the cabinet
or front will continue to rise...