Interesting Arthur. I don't think I had a clue you were selling them and would have paid the difference of what I actually picked one up for. Though mine was clean and I have not a complaint in the world. Like you I watched things go up and they were very controlled day by day. At the time it seemed that all of the units were out of China and I really felt like it was quite the gamble. It paid off but I was worried about it. Regards Paul
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Arthur Dent <[email protected]>wrote: > >On Mon, Dec 4, paul swed wrote: > >Yes sir $139. But boy I have not seen cheap tbolts in bit. As I recall > >$260 these days? > > > >On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Bob Camp <lists at rtty.us> wrote: > > > >> Hi > >> > >> The gotcha is that you go from paying surplus prices to paying new > prices. > >> New price to new price, they certainly are cheaper. Not so easy to beat > a > >> $100 TBolt on price (if you can find one). > >> > >> Bob > >> > ++++++++++++++++++++ > Comments like these make me smile because they're kind of like the ads you > used to see for buying $50 jeeps from DOD. Yes, someone at some time in the > distant past had probably bought one jeep for $50 but these ads continued > for > decades like urban legends and a lot of people believed them. As to Tbolt > prices, > over the past year or so I had sold close to 200 Tbolts on the popular > auction site > at $170 each so I have a pretty good idea what the market was like during > that time. > All the Tbolts I had were removed from the original equipment and tested > by me so > all the units I sold were clean and worked exactly as they were intended > to work. > > If you watched the price of all the Chinese dealers over this same period > last year > they all went up in unison, first to $189, then to $260 as Paul mentioned > above. > What you would have noticed if you checked the actual units sold is that > they were > not selling any at those prices but buyers were getting their Tbolts from > me instead. > I suspect that all the Chinese dealers are basically store front resellers > for some > distributor who set the price. As others on this list had commented, the > condition > of some of the electronic parts from China indicate that these parts like > Tbolts and > OXCOs were removed at some scrapyard by someone who didn't know or care > what they were but was only interested in throughput and the parts were > thrown into > bins for later distribution and sale. Check the photos of bent and/or > rusted OXCOs > for listings 170950828042, 170558942064, and 300579197899 to see what I > mean. > > -Arthur > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
