Sony 2010 goes for $710.00!
 

Jim Hackett wrote:

Mine was a Hammarlund HQ-170 for $30...

"John S." wrote in message
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You never know what you will find away from Ebay. To date my biggest
"find" was a National HRO 500 for $25.00 at an auction.


Mine was a National NC183R for free!
--
Former professional electron wrangler.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

At the Goodwill thrift store this afternoon,I bought an old wooden
rustic home made box which measures about 22" W by about 13 " front to
back by by about 14 " high and I paid $2.00 for the box and I bought a
leather case which has many,many little compartments in it for special
tools which are used for working on business and office machines and I
paid fifty cents for the leather case.There is a little tag inside of
the case which says PLATT,Cases For Business and Industry. and there is
a large YKK zipper on the case.After I left the Goodwill thrift store,I
stopped off at the Radio Shack inside Metrocenter Mall which is only
about a block from the Goodwill thrift store www.metromalljackson.com
and I bought a little Amplified Stereo Listerner,part # 33-1097.I think
I had a pretty good few hours of junkin this afternoon.By the way,the
lady at the Goodwill store told me the old Dinning Room furniture is
sitting in the back part of the store and they haven't brought it up
front yet because it is so dingy and grundgy.(I guess they are too lazy
to clean the furniture up and they have no idea that the furniture is
worth a lot of money) She said I can buy the furniture for $25.00.If
it's still there tomorrow morning,I think I will buy that furniture.I
know for certain it would bring a lot of money on eBay.I would have to
make room inside my raggity old 1978 Dodge lonnggg wheelbase van before
I could haul that furniture home.Hell broke loose here this
morning,weatherwise,and it is raining here again right now.Crazy tornado
weather.
cuhulin

When I stopped off at the Radio Shack store this afternoon,I noticed
they have the S350 AM/FM/Shortwave radios for $99.00 and the Grundig 100
PE radios for $29.99.I passed.
cuhulin

John S. wrote:
The deals are out there...and the hunt is half the fun!


The problem I run into when I find an item I think is a good deal.Some
nice person will see it.....not wanting it....& posting the item on a
bunch of reflectors or news groups. There goes the "good deal". I
realize they think they are being helpful but it really kills the item
for someone who has a "find"

73, Ken KG4BIG

Good deals on the net are almost impossible to find. Estate sales,
garage sales and auctions are much better possibilities because there
is a good chance the seller doesn't know a good radio from a poor one.

Well I am the "sucker" that bought the 2010 on ebay. I'm assuming that
the initiator of this thread is the same gentleman who sent me this
email after the auction:

"$710.00 for a 2010? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!! Boy I need to sell you some
stuff."

I understand your fascination with the price but as one of the kind
respondents above noted, it's my money and this is American capitalism
at its best. A new 2010 is simply worth that to me. I love this rig.
I've bought three different 2010s on ebay in the last few years and
none have been "as described". I can keep playing that game until I
find a nice one, losing on reselling and shipping each round (I
describe items as they really are), or just bite the bullet and get one
that will keep me happy until my wife auctions it off in an estate sale
after I've gone to the other side of the ionosphere.

To add to your fascination, let me tell you that the set is going right
to Kiwa for a full set of mods as soon as it gets here.

Kind regards,
Harry

How many people out there know that circuit city owns radio shack of canada
and is being sued by radio shack of the USA to stop calling themselves radio
shack





"Conan Ford" wrote in message
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wrote in news:17257-42544C70-47@storefull-
3257.bay.webtv.net:

When I stopped off at the Radio Shack store this afternoon,I noticed
they have the S350 AM/FM/Shortwave radios for $99.00 and the Grundig 100
PE radios for $29.99.I passed.
cuhulin



The S350 goes for C$99.00 in Canada at Radioshack, US $99.00 is a ripoff.

"Haerie" wrote in message
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Well I am the "sucker" that bought the 2010 on ebay. I'm assuming that
the initiator of this thread is the same gentleman who sent me this
email after the auction:

"$710.00 for a 2010? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!! Boy I need to sell you some
stuff."

I understand your fascination with the price but as one of the kind
respondents above noted, it's my money and this is American capitalism
at its best. A new 2010 is simply worth that to me. I love this rig.
I've bought three different 2010s on ebay in the last few years and
none have been "as described". I can keep playing that game until I
find a nice one, losing on reselling and shipping each round (I
describe items as they really are), or just bite the bullet and get one
that will keep me happy until my wife auctions it off in an estate sale
after I've gone to the other side of the ionosphere.

To add to your fascination, let me tell you that the set is going right
to Kiwa for a full set of mods as soon as it gets here.

I've owned my 2010 since the October '86 and wish I had bought another one
in 2003 when they were available. I believe I paid $286 from an outfit that
advertised in the back of a camera magazine. I couldn't even guess how many
hours mine has on it...but I'm sure it's in the neighborhood of at least
70,000 hours. I've lost the front end twice because of close lightning
strikes and it had a problem with some cold solder connections from the
factory...but I loved it from the first time I turned it on and feel the
same today.

I don't think I'd pay $710 for one, but if it lasted as long as mine has so
far...the cost works out to about $3.00 a month, and mine is still going
strong.

I knew it,that Radio Shack of canaDUH is being sued by Radio Shack of
U.S.A.
cuhulin

Roger Fredinburg www.regularguy.com in Medford,Oregon owns a Sony
2010 radio,he once emailed me about his radios and he owns a Satellit
radio too.He said his Sony 2010 is a great radio.I have read reviews
about the Sony 2010's a few years ago and they all were very good
reviews too.I think they look much better than the Sony 7600 GR radios.I
wouldn't mind owning a Sony 2010 radio.Maybe some day I will get lucky
and find one at the Goodwill thrift store.
cuhulin

Harry... I think it is a very good guess that Mr. Diamond (or whatever
his real name is) also sent the email. I don't know if he posts
look-at-this messages just to troll for attention, or whether he is
taking out his frustration on you because he can't afford a decent
receiver. There are several possibilities.

That good quality older receivers command more than they originally
sold for is not new news. Look at the prices the older Panasonic
portables (2200, 2600, 2800, 2900) command. A Sony ICF 5900 will
usually sell for 4x it's original price. The 2010 is the receiver that
first got me interested in this hobby. It was a gift from my wife in
1986 when she was studying RF communications in the EE program.
Needless to say that radio got a lot of use.

Ignore the troll and enjoy your radio.

That's a record I believe for a NIB 2010 -- absurd of course, but part
of the ebay game....

wrote in message
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That's a record I believe for a NIB 2010 -- absurd of course, but part
of the ebay game....


I think we might be missing something here. These people are not really
bidding on the radio at such high prices. They are looking to buy happiness.
How much should a dose of happiness cost? You can't just find happiness
anywhere.
So, in reality they are bidding on what they hope turns out to be a happy
pleasurable experience. I guess it depends on how much you're willing to
spend to make yourself happy.

Lucky

I should have bought the one I saw for $125 at the Tulsa hamfest. Wasn't
new, but had the box with everything...

"Richard Diamond" wrote in message
...

There's a sucker born every day.

Yep,I suppose the guy got what he wanted (Sony 2010 for about $710.00)
and the seller got what he is happy about.I Say it all worked out all A
OK on both sides.
cuhulin

Leonard Martin said: Almost nothing turns out to be as described and
has one major undisclosed flaw.

The most recent numbers I have seen for Ebay show the number of
auctions in one quarter to be just under 300,000,000. Annualizing that
gives 1,200,000,000. So of 1.2 billion auction listings in a given
year, only a tiny number...say .001% are honest. That's only 12,000
honest auctions in a year.

Why do people continue to bid and leave positive feedback and how in
the world does Ebay stay in business if it is just a den of thieves.

Where did you get your statistics about the rampant dis-honesty on
Ebay.

I know a lady and her hubby here in Jackson,she is from St.Louis,he is
from Vicksburg.She sells things such as old kids books and toys and
things on eBay.I know both of those folks are completely honest.She
doesn't care anything about working a computer though,so he runs that
part of it.junkin judy,How y'all doing?
cuhulin