Fred Cameron wrote:
Due to recovery from surgery, I missed responding to an interesting
topic or thread a few weeks back lamenting the high prices for used
equipment; my experience on here and other sites is that the person
who asks for less than 50% of the new value for a piece of used
equipment is a rare person. Even still I have purchased items with
scratches and flaws that never were mentioned.

It comes down to ones value system, but please, list every noticeable
fault and then set the price to where the item is a bargin for
someone- just like it is.

Anyone with money who is older than 60 will forever raise my suspicion
when selling or repairing something for me.

Excuse my cynicism, but it is a bit ironic that a person in their
sunset years who is closer to leaving every earthly possession behind
would have an inordinate affectionfor money and the tightest squeeze
on things.

It must be the pride of life stage, but the bubba with little more
that a pair of Kmart shoes and a push mower to his name is the one who
tends to be the most generous among, not those with worth!



kicked one too many times when I was down on money in SC
W4FCM
Fred

Hmmmmm. Wealth re-distribution? Boatanchor welfare? I think I've
heard of those concepts somewhere else. Now, let me see.......

de K3HVG

Well, in one respect, vintage equipment is a real bargain.

This past year I purchased a set of Heathkit SB-series amateur radio
“twins” for the collective price of about $350. If you include
related expenses need for getting the set on the air, the total cost
was probably about $500. That’s in current dollars (2008).
Accounting for inflation, this is equivalent to $80 in 1968, a year
during which the same and equivalent items could be purchased. Going
the other way, I’d say that in 1968, the same Heathkit station would
have cost about $650, which in today’s dollars is about $4000. So,
even if I had been ripped off and paid twice what I did this year, I
still would have paid a low price.

-Dave Drumheller, K3WQ

On Aug 14, 1:27*pm, wrote:
Well, in one respect, vintage equipment is a real bargain.

This past year I purchased a set of Heathkit SB-series amateur radio
“twins” for the collective price of about $350. *If you include
related expenses need for getting the set on the air, the total cost
was probably about $500. *That’s in current dollars (2008).
Accounting for inflation, this is equivalent to $80 in 1968, a year
during which the same and equivalent items could be purchased. *Going
the other way, I’d say that in 1968, the same Heathkit station would
have cost about $650, which in today’s dollars is about $4000. *So,
even if I had been ripped off and paid twice what I did this year, I
still would have paid a low price.

-Dave Drumheller, K3WQ

Am a bit older than most who have mentioned it here!!!!
No problem; on eBay for example; see an item and before bidding
decide,
a) Do I really need/want it? Or am I just being nostagically old and
foolish.
b) If yes; what sort of cost limit am I prepared to go to. If bidding
is 'brisk' do I want to go a 'little more' either in dollars or a
percentage? Usually that answer 'no'.
c) Forget about it. Noting however the price that it eventually sells
for future info.
d) End of discussion.

On Aug 14, 10:48*pm, terryS wrote:
Am a bit older than most who have mentioned it here!!!!
No problem; on eBay for example; see an item and before bidding
decide,
a) Do I really need/want it? Or am I just being nostagically old and
foolish.
b) If yes; what sort of cost limit am I prepared to go to. If bidding
is 'brisk' do I want to go a 'little more' either in dollars or a
percentage? *Usually that answer 'no'.
c) Forget about it. Noting however the price *that it eventually sells
for future info.
d) End of discussion.

Yup--this is essentially the same approach I use for making Ebay
purchases.

Generally speaking, if bidding is brisk on an item I’m interested in,
I’m not inclined to get in on the action. And that’s not a problem,
because all I have to do is wait and sooner or later it pops up
again.

-Dave Drumheller, K3WQ

"terryS" wrote in message
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On Aug 14, 1:27 pm, wrote:
..
a) Do I really need/want it? Or am I just being nostagically old and
foolish.


Nostalgia sometimes wears rose colored glasses

I've bid foolishly on things from my radio past, only to discover
what I remembered and the reality of how bad some of
those radios really were are two different things.

Pete