[Towertalk] First day at Dayton - Attendance continues to slide

[Chris BONDE]

I guess it depends upon what you are doing, selling or buying.

But if the hobby is dieing, less people comming into it, who is buying all 
this stuff at high prices?  Is it not illegal to have ham equipment without 
a license?  Maybe not a tower as it could be used for remote weather station.

Chris opr Ve7HCB


At 10:22 AM 2002-05-20 -0400, KD8OK wrote:
>Should we blame the people selling the stuff for better then new prices for
>a 20 year old piece of equipment, or the people who bid on it?  Nothing is
>more frustrating to me then to find something I want on ebay only to find
>that it sold for more than it cost originally.
>
>Please excuse the bandwidth...
>
>
>
> > The ebay mentality has infected our hobby big time...now what was a good
> > deal at $65 is now a good deal at $225.
> >
> > Nuts to them that think they can make a living selling used radio gear at
> > inflated prices...keep the trailer load and haul it around from place to
> > place year after year...there's nothing new in the flea market, it's just
> > older, with more scratches and dirt, and the prices are as rediculous this
> > year as ithey were last year.  Folks are tired of it.
>
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