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"Bill Turner" wrote in message
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Wise up, guys. Unbuilt Heathkits are collector's items, far more
valuable than a built one.

Bill, W6WRT


Yep. Just keep watching this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6624140065

My guess at the final bid: $707.63

jim menning

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Bid higher then.

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Why in the hell is so much of this newsgroups' output about Heath and
push pull all of the sudden? I mean new threads, not just posts.

Must be a slow day.

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jim menning wrote:
Wise up, guys. Unbuilt Heathkits are collector's items, far more
valuable than a built one.
Yep. Just keep watching this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6624140065
My guess at the final bid: $707.63

You know, I'm odd enough that I know better than to question others'
odd hobbies. But can somebody clue me in, because I guess I just don't
get it. Where's the value in these things that make them such high
priced collectibles?

If you build it, it becomes a relatively worthless piece of equipment.
If you save it, you end up with a shelf full of cardboard boxes of no
particular aesthetic merit. I suppose you could invest in them and flip
them for higher prices but there's no fun in that. Seriously, what
makes unbuilt kit collectors tick? Not judging, just really curious.

paul

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ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

Paul Dietenberger wrote:


Seriously, what
makes unbuilt kit collectors tick? Not judging, just really curious.


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Nostalgia, I'm sure. Non-hams or non-kit builders probably would not be
interested at all.

Bill, W6WRT

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To the poster:

The way Google compiles these things, I could hope you are not "Cin" in
alt.support.grief and we don't think our Bill could be a regular poster
to alt.sex.passwords (sic), and no I didn't look. Since we already have
an existing Bill Turner, who is QUITE well known, and you seem to be a
concern to him (and since you've been here before as I recall), could
you think about adopting a different tag at the least?

Bill has had enough problems lately.

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"jim menning" wrote in message
...
Yep. Just keep watching this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6624140065

My guess at the final bid: $707.63

jim menning


I believe Zenith "persuaded" to discontinue that particular kit... It was a
too obvious
TO 3000 clone. I'd bet it is also a rare model in its own right.

pete

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" Uncle Peter" wrote in message
news:6_e3g.15396$NG.10809@dukeread10...

"jim menning" wrote in message
...
Yep. Just keep watching this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6624140065

My guess at the final bid: $707.63

jim menning


I believe Zenith "persuaded" to discontinue that particular kit... It was a
too obvious
TO 3000 clone. I'd bet it is also a rare model in its own right.

pete



Didn't Zenith and Heathkit team up in their later years?

jim menning

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Steven wrote:

To the poster:

The way Google compiles these things, I could hope you are not "Cin" in
alt.support.grief and we don't think our Bill could be a regular poster
to alt.sex.passwords (sic), and no I didn't look. Since we already have
an existing Bill Turner, who is QUITE well known, and you seem to be a
concern to him (and since you've been here before as I recall), could
you think about adopting a different tag at the least?

Bill has had enough problems lately.


Look at the headers, dumbass. THIS Bill Turner is a regular poster on
the news:rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors newsgroup so why should he have
to change his name to please your paranoid little mind? You would have
seen that the thread is cross posted to three newsgroups, if you had
bothered to look.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

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jim menning wrote:

" Uncle Peter" wrote in message
news:6_e3g.15396$NG.10809@dukeread10...

"jim menning" wrote in message
...
Yep. Just keep watching this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6624140065

My guess at the final bid: $707.63

jim menning


I believe Zenith "persuaded" to discontinue that particular kit... It was a
too obvious
TO 3000 clone. I'd bet it is also a rare model in its own right.

pete



Didn't Zenith and Heathkit team up in their later years?

jim menning


Zenith bought Heathkit to become "established" in the personal
computer business to bid on a number of computer contracts with the US
military. I had the news clipping somewhere from a trade journal, but I
haven't seen it in some time.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida