Garey Barrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang
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I think what Gary was referring to was the tendency (initially (?)) on
EBay to take a perfectly good example of a radio, or whatever, and break
it up into pieces, "auctioning" each piece separately. Like most
products that have a need for replacement parts, pieces of radios almost
always sell for more than the whole. How many C Lines have we seen
with the receiver in one auction, the transmitter in another, power
supply in another, speaker in another, interconnecting cables in
another, each manual in others, etc. Or boards "from a fully
functional TR-7" offered a piece at a time. I fully expect that once
one of these clowns figure out that the tubes just unplug, we'll see the
tubes individually as well!! If a unit is defective in some manner
that makes it unreasonable to repair, such as a bad power transformer,
melted wiring harness, severely bent chassis / panel, etc., then yes, it
should be made a donor so that others may live! A "rare" piece, such
as a 1-A might be worth repairing even major damage like this, but the 4
series is still plentiful enough to allow an occasional sacrifice of a
severely injured example.
But to part out a perfectly good example of a piece of thirty or forty
or fifty year old American manufactured equipment is just WRONG.....
We've already lost the lead in technology, and thanks to our education
"system?" we're losing our future as well. Let's at least not destroy
the remaining examples that show what we were once capable of producing.
73, Garey - K4OAH
Atlanta
Drake C-Line Service Manual
<http://www.k4oah.com>
Jim W7RY wrote:
Jim W7RY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang
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I have to disagree Gary.... With old radios that you can no longer buy
parts for.... Parting out a radio is a good thing. Perhaps YOU will
need a part that is no longer available anywhere except from an old
radio.
Would you part out the radio you have or just throw it away? If there
were no parts radios, your's would sit un-repaired forever.
You can't have it both ways!
Have you ever seen an auto wrecking yard? I bet there are some very
nice vehicles in there that were perfectly good at one time.
You're logic makes no sense.
73
Jim W7RY
At 08:46 AM 7/24/2005, Gary Poland wrote:
"Gary Poland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the
drakelist gang
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Rick,
Your correct Ebay is not the problem, the sellers are. But making a
living from it by re-selling equipment that is purchased at hamfests,
auctions, or estate sells and never even taking the time to wipe off
the dust or plug it in is. On top of that add ridiculous packing and
handling fees and over charging for shipping. Its still based on
greed and too many or making a living form it. I don't approve of the
tactics being used buy the big sellers. The average guy that wants to
get rid of an unused piece of ham equipment that he has owned and
used personally I have no problem with. Taking perfectly good radios
and parting them out to make more money to me is plain sick. Sorry I
personally have been burnt on ebay many times. Its unfortunate that
if you want anything used anymore you have to resort to using ebay.
The hamfests are on their way out as are the swap nets. I don't mean
to ramble and I don't want to start a long thread of pros / cons but
there are a lot of self serving not so honest folks on ebay. And Rick
I praise you for your positive feedback, many sellers are honest. But
the guy that buys your item to just turn it for a profit is probably
not going to complain......enough said
73, Gary
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