This is of real concern to me. I have an accumulation of ham equipment,
and
probably need to start moving some of it out - to make room in my life
for more ham equipment :).
It's not that I need the money... got plenty of that. I could keep
buying equipment the rest of my life and sluff off the selling job to
my heirs :). But that would be dumb. What's the use of having all this
nice stuff in the closet?
At the moment there's a pair of K2's - one 100W and one 10W. An
IC706MKII with very low hours. A Kenwood TS590S. A 30L-1. A
collection of Sideband Engineers SB34 transceivers. A QRP-labs QCX+ &
matching 50W amp. A small collection of ARC-5 transmitters & receivers.
A Ubitx transceiver. A couple of old sweep tube linears. 3 or 4 (
think there's 4, but haven't seen the fourth one in a while ) TV7D/U
tube testers - my goodness, has anybody seen what those things are going
for on Ebay? Also, I expect my Alpha 78 to become surplus some time
next year.
In the past, there was a ham radio swap meet in Silicon Valley.
That's gone for the moment due to COVID. Even the venue ( Fry's
Electroncs ) is gone. I've been going to this thing since the early
70's. I would mostly buy, but also sold. I've been there as early as
4:30 in the morning... but I have never been first.
Fond memories... There was that Swan 500 that I scored for $100 at 6:00
in the morning.
In the 80's, I was getting fairly prosperous, and I started buying all
the stuff I had drooled over as a starving student in the 70's. A Drake
TR4... A Collins R390A ( $100 ). A Galaxy 5 in brand new condition
with the packing tape still on the tubes...
Mostly, I sold it back a few months later at the same swap meet.
Storage space was always an issue. I used to joke that the most
valuable thing that traded places at the swap was not the stuff... or
the money.. but rather Silicon Valley real estate; storage space in
people's attics and garages. I developed an rule: I would buy nothing
that would not fit in a backpack.
The flea market was more than a sales venue - it was a community. I
would see familiar
people there. There was the soldering iron guy... the cables &
connectors family that came up from LA; Rik the cheap Chinese tools guy
who also had supermagnets. Mark the
CTO of Netgear, who would come up in his old VW microbus and sell
detritus from his lab.
He was an excellent source of wall warts.
At the flea market, what you see is what you get. Does it work? Show
me. You could
get a feel for the guy behind the table, person to person.
Anyway... selling on line to people far away - seems like a lot of
work. Have to pack stuff up, haul it off to the shipping store, freak
out at how much they charge, worry about parts swappers.... Maybe I'll
just wait till the swap meet starts up again in 2022.
- Jerry KF6VB
On 2021-10-29 22:45, Larry Shapiro wrote:
When I first started listing items on QRZ, I was told by a handful of
guys to always put this in my listings.
I asked why,and was told that it happens too frequently.
I started to add the parts swappers line to my listings.
I have not had any issues,other than one buyer who
was a real pain.
After reading this this thread,I have decided not to do this anymore.
In my 33 years as a Ham,I have had 99% great experiences with other
Hams.
Thanks,
Larry k6ro
-----Original Message----- From: Anthony Wanschura
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2021 6:30 AM
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] Parts swappers -- is this a real "thing"
Hi all,
I've seen a few K3 For Sale ads that mention "parts swappers". Has this
really been an issue?
It makes me hesitate to put my K3 up for sale.
73,
Tony KM0O
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