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Hallicrafters SX-100 sells for $1800.00 on eBay
I kid you not, it sold for $1800.00. I will admit, it does look nice
but $1800 dollars? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...37010 91&rd=1 This sure seems to be way over priced. What say you? |
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"I was against it before I was for it" wrote in message ... I kid you not, it sold for $1800.00. I will admit, it does look nice but $1800 dollars? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=30937010 91& rd=1 This sure seems to be way over priced. What say you? Well, the $1800 radio did have all it's knobs. Remember this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=30943441 80& rd=1 I looked at the bidding, and it looks like a couple of guys got into a war over this one. There's enough SX-100s around, and the loser on this can find a nice one after he calms down. Frank Dresser |
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I was against it before I was for it wrote in message . ..
I kid you not, it sold for $1800.00. I will admit, it does look nice but $1800 dollars? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...37010 91&rd=1 This sure seems to be way over priced. What say you? It must be nice to be able to afford to pay 6 times what a radio is really worth...Myself, I think you would have to be *seriously* brain dead to pay $1800 for an SX-100. I thought the $700-800-900 that one guy wanted was kinda absurd...But to each his own I guess. Those radios are not *that* good. Not even close. Myself, I consider them kind of crappy, and basically unusable for my needs, and that is no joke. I really don't see the attraction. Why on earth would anyone want to pay that much for what is a mediocre radio at best? Sure , it's in great shape, and it's kind of old and is collectable, but $1800 bills is absurd to any normal rational person. Or should be anyway...Actually, I don't really have a problem with it, as it's not my money being spent, but what does bother me, is people start to believe they are really worth that much to nearly anyone. Like I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I turned down one of those for free. "I could still get it if I wanted it". But I have no real interest in a semi-obsolete, fairly mediocre at best, boatanchor. It's inferior to nearly any older radio I have, and not a one cost me anywhere close to $1800. My old drake R4 is far superior to that old halliscratcher. Or in my opinion anyway. Heck, I think my drake 2C is too for that matter...And I'd feel like a crook to even think about selling my R4 for $1800. And it's a potential collectors item with serial # 0058 to boot... :/ Delusions of frigging grandeur, or just plain more money than brains, thats all I can say... Before E -bay came along and gave everyone a chance to distort the value of things due to old farts wanting relive their pasts AT ANY COST, I'd see those things a dime a dozen at hamfests for 50-75-100 bucks, and they would still be lucky if they unloaded them before the end of the day. The one listed did look nearly pristine, as far as SX-100's go, but I still wouldn't give a dime over $300 for it, and I'd have to think long and real hard to even do that. And that would only be as a collectors item, as I have no real interest in the radio itself due to it being an inferior machine to my normal standards. OK for casual SWL use I guess, but pretty crappy for ham use by todays standards... Heck, my 1948 RCA console must be worth $2900 judging by what I see these days. My drake R4, hummmm, $3600 ???. "It's twice the radio the SX-100 is, and thats no joke. Thats how I can rationalize this" Drake 2C, hummm, $2400 ??? $1200 extra for the 2CQ speaker/Q multiplier??? I've got an old crappy national S-38 clone I'll sell for $795??? Anyone feel those prices are out of line if I decide to sell? Or should I be slapping the crap out of myself? "Autoslap®" Inquiring minds wanna know...BTW, radio isn't the only thing E-bay bidders are silly about. Geetar prices have gone through the roof in the same manner. Want to buy any decent older geetar? Better get ready to bend over unlubed, if a moneyed old fart wanting to relive his past gets into the bidding. Two old farts in a bidding war? They do stuff like buy SX-100's for $1800...Hahahahahh!!!!!!!!! MK |
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"Mark Keith" wrote: It must be nice to be able to afford to pay 6 times what a radio is really worth...Myself, I think you would have to be *seriously* brain dead to pay $1800 for an SX-100. I think a lot of guys are nostalgic about the first receiver they had as a kid, or for the receiver the always wanted as a kid but couldn't afford. Now, they've got plenty of money and they just have to get it (especially if it's in nice condition). In some extreme cases, the bids may be phony and no transaction ever really occurs. Art N2AH |
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"I was against it before I was for it" wrote in message ... I kid you not, it sold for $1800.00. I will admit, it does look nice but $1800 dollars? Anyone who would pay $1.8k for an old ham radio desperatly needs to have their head examined by Dr. Phil on TV, so we can all laugh. |
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"Mark Keith" wrote in message m... [snip] Why on earth would anyone want to pay that much for what is a mediocre radio at best? Sure , it's in great shape, and it's kind of old and is collectable, but $1800 bills is absurd to any normal rational person. Or should be anyway... [snip] Somepeople might actually believe the SW investment advisors, and figure the dollar will soon be worthless and we will all be in a barter economy any minute now. Most of could make the stretch for fifty pounds of radio. And you can't get that kind of investment advice with fifty pounds of gold. Frank Dresser |
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Arthur Harris wrote:
"Mark Keith" wrote: It must be nice to be able to afford to pay 6 times what a radio is really worth...Myself, I think you would have to be *seriously* brain dead to pay $1800 for an SX-100. I think a lot of guys are nostalgic about the first receiver they had as a kid, or for the receiver the always wanted as a kid but couldn't afford. Now, they've got plenty of money and they just have to get it (especially if it's in nice condition). In some extreme cases, the bids may be phony and no transaction ever really occurs. I think there's more 'shill' bidding on Ebay than they want to admitt. -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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orknies 444 wrote:
Anyone who would pay $1.8k for an old ham radio desperatly needs to have their head examined by Dr. Phil on TV, so we can all laugh. The good doctor need his head examined. -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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"Panzer240" wrote in message ... Hmmm............ interesting that the 1 bid winner of this one was also bidding on the other one. Note also the -1 rating I noticed that, too. I checked a couple of the high bidder's completed auctions, and he seems like a genuine radio collector. There was an article about the rising value of collectible cars in the Sunday paper here a month or so ago. The author made some exciting predictions about how presumeably the value of certain cars would likely explode in the next few years. I don't know if that's true or not, but I did notice the author was an auctioneer for expensive collector cars. I'm wondering if there's some sort of prediction sheet on the investment value of old radios. Frank Dresser |
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