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:
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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