[time-nuts] A little quick advice, please

[J. Forster]

Pretty much agreed.

There are a few dealers who hold out for near-list prices and can afford
to have stuff not move, because when they do make a sale the profit is
very high. Some, like ElectroCraft, don't make it. Others, like Tucker,
apparently do.

I frankly doubt that the "gotta have XYZ and only that" is very big any
more because the US doesn't make all that much hardware any more.

FWIW,

-John

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> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 12:25:22PM -0700, J. Forster wrote:
>> Two comments:
>>
>> I have a lot of Tek 7xxx stuff and almost none of it cost anything like
>> $0.50 on the dollar. Virtually everything cost well under $0.10 /dollar.
>
> 	I would agree... I have rarely seen 80s/90s used TE sell for
> more than about 5 cents on the original MSRP dollar... lots is
> advertised for more, but look on Terapeak and see how much of that
> actually ever sells at those prices.   One assumes the few items that do
> sell at those exorbitant prices are either sold to naive newbies  who
> don't know better or some company or agency that has the gear written
> into a test procedure or installed in a system with specific to the
> device software and simply MUST have an exact replacement.   And I darkly
> suspect a few sales at high prices are money laundering... or conceal
> other shenanigans...
>
>
>> > Your worries about warrantee are quite valid. But if I can get a used
>> > scope or bit of test equipment for less than $0.50 on the dollar of a
>> > new one, it's a pretty good bargain for home use. If it is for work,
>> > whole different story. That's where the 2236 came in. I was making a
>> > living on the road doing field service. It couldn't break or I'd be in
>> > deep sneakers. So it arrived new in a box. Of course that was many
>> > many moons ago.
>> >
>> >
>> > Bob
>> > KI2L
>
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