I'm assisting in the estate liquidation of my Father's amateur radio
equipment. This can be viewed at:

http://www.geobike.com/radios/Main.html

Thanks!

Rich Ketcham

Prices???

On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 13:01:06 -0500, Rich Ketcham
wrote:

I'm assisting in the estate liquidation of my Father's amateur radio
equipment. This can be viewed at:

http://www.geobike.com/radios/Main.html

Thanks!

Rich Ketcham

Prices???

Oh I'm sure they're just looking for offers...
Every time you turn around someone wants to sell
something, but they want you to tell them what you'll
give for instead of putting a price on it.
I NEVER make blind offers on someone else's stuff.
If they want to sale it, they should put a price on it.

Just my .02 worth...

Ron

" Ron Lawrence KC4YOY" wrote in message
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Prices???

Oh I'm sure they're just looking for offers...
Every time you turn around someone wants to sell
something, but they want you to tell them what you'll
give for instead of putting a price on it.
I NEVER make blind offers on someone else's stuff.
If they want to sale it, they should put a price on it.

Just my .02 worth...

Ron




I agree Ron. It's called fishing and it's brought on by greed.

B.H.

Brian Hill wrote:

I agree Ron. It's called fishing and it's brought on by greed.

Oh, don't be such a cynic.
It's often rooted in timidity, embarrassment,
the fear of admitting ignorance,
fear if offending friends, fear of appearing
greedy or foolish or any number
of innocuous reasons. An important maxim to remember:

Do not be quick to attribute to malice,
that which is more easily explained by ignorance.

"David Stinson" wrote in message
k.net...
Brian Hill wrote:

I agree Ron. It's called fishing and it's brought on by greed.

Oh, don't be such a cynic.
It's often rooted in timidity, embarrassment,
the fear of admitting ignorance,
fear if offending friends, fear of appearing
greedy or foolish or any number
of innocuous reasons. An important maxim to remember:

Do not be quick to attribute to malice,
that which is more easily explained by ignorance.

I agree. Depending on how long ago the father passed away, they may not be
prepared to deal with this. They may have no one to turn to to get advice on
prices of said equipment. They may be clueless as to what to sell it for. I
know - I've seen it a few times. I know a lady right now who's husband
passed away 10 years ago, she refuses to sell his stuff. She doesn't want to
deal with it. They may not want to price it too high - as Dave said, fear of
embarassment. They may be having a tough time just parting with it.

I know of a guy too, who makes it his business to go to Estates and gyp
people out of equipment for pennies on the dollar, then try to get top price
for it ONLY after he has screwed with it and messed it up. He is well known
and many tend to stay away.

Give this guy the benefit of the doubt..... If he's posted no prices, offer
him a reasonable price. I'm sure he'd consider it.

Lou

I agree Ron. It's called fishing and it's brought on by greed.

Oh, don't be such a cynic.


I've been around this hobby a long time and the
typical non collector out there is thinking that
they've got the holy grail of radios, "one only one there is",
a "prototype" and they just want some big gun collector
to come along and make them rich.

As an example, I got a phone call a while back from
a man that had a "prototype" tube tester. He said
he had talked to the folks at Southeby's about it and
they told him that if they had it in their auction the
starting bid would be 100K. He also said the Smithsonian
wanted to buy it, but they wanted to display it for a year
first. When I asked why he hadn't given it to Southeby's
and let them sale it, he explained that he was on full
disability and if he came into that much money the guvment
(that's the way he said it) would stop his checks.
I asked him to send me some photos of it so I could
get the opinion of some experts tube testers I knew.
When I got the photos they showed a dirty, rusty,
60's vintage counter top drug store tube tester.
When I email the photos to some of the "experts"
and asked they what they thought the value of it would be,
they typical answer was $25-$50, IF you could find someone
that wanted it. They didn't.
That's really a difference from 100K that Southeby's
said it was worth...
There wasn't any GREED at work there, was there?

Ron

"David Stinson" wrote in message
k.net...
Brian Hill wrote:

I agree Ron. It's called fishing and it's brought on by greed.

Oh, don't be such a cynic.
It's often rooted in timidity, embarrassment,
the fear of admitting ignorance,
fear if offending friends, fear of appearing
greedy or foolish or any number
of innocuous reasons. An important maxim to remember:

Do not be quick to attribute to malice,
that which is more easily explained by ignorance.


Oh come on Stinson. Allow me to stir the pot once in a wile too. In my
experience of a measly 30 years I will stick with my original assumption.

--
73 and good DX. B.H.
Brian's Radio Universe
http://webpages.charter.net/brianhill/500.htm

Oh, don't be such a cynic.
It's often rooted in timidity, embarrassment,
snip
Do not be quick to attribute to malice,
that which is more easily explained by ignorance.

Well said. I get a lot of email from people who just inherited or found
something. They are not radio people. They basically don't have a clue and
they're not trying to get rich. If I were willing to pay shipping for this
stuff (which is often crap IMHO), I could fill a warehouse to the ceiling.
Many of them are also not Internet-savvy, so you could earn some bonus karma
points by giving them a break. In the last two or three years, I have gotten
hundreds of "do you want to buy this" emails, and of those bought one, yes
count it, one radio, a Midwest console that was within easy driving
distance. For the rest, I advised the owners to contact the nearest radio
collector club or make a nice donation to a local charity.

Lighten up :-)

Regards,

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

"Gardener Ted Armswrong" wrote in message
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Prices???

On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 13:01:06 -0500, Rich Ketcham
wrote:

I'm assisting in the estate liquidation of my Father's amateur radio
equipment. This can be viewed at:

http://www.geobike.com/radios/Main.html

Thanks!

Rich Ketcham


Location????

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