I had a funny conversation with a Craigslist lowballer today that figured that silver faced vintage Radio shack gear was worth $45.00.
I usually sell my gear for a reasonable price and I attempt to repair stuff that is unique and worthy of repairing, which brings me to a pretty rare Realistic STA-111 receiver or for that matter a Realistic System 11.
I opted to not send this unit to the landfill and spent the money on getting it repaired locally, it is worth saving the Made in Japan stuff from the 70's and 80's as opposed to the Made in China crap that is made to the lowest price point only to end up in landfills in about 5 years.
So here is my conversation.
Here is an Angry Bird Bluetooth speaker that people that have no sense of value probably think is cheap.
$66.00 will get you this future piece of landfill junk but $45.00 for something made well and sounds great when people actually cared for those qualities is insulting, now it could be that this CL Lowballer is financially embarrassed.
I had a quick check on CL to see what was available in receivers for sub $100 locally, outside of plenty of Black Plastic Crap and HT 5.1, 6.1. 7.1 I found two that where of the Silver faced type, both I would pass on, but my new found ex friend figures he can do better.
I did offer up a nice Yamaha HT unit for $50.00 but I guess that was $5.00 out of his price range too.
I usually sell my gear for a reasonable price and I attempt to repair stuff that is unique and worthy of repairing, which brings me to a pretty rare Realistic STA-111 receiver or for that matter a Realistic System 11.
I opted to not send this unit to the landfill and spent the money on getting it repaired locally, it is worth saving the Made in Japan stuff from the 70's and 80's as opposed to the Made in China crap that is made to the lowest price point only to end up in landfills in about 5 years.
So here is my conversation.
Here is an Angry Bird Bluetooth speaker that people that have no sense of value probably think is cheap.
$66.00 will get you this future piece of landfill junk but $45.00 for something made well and sounds great when people actually cared for those qualities is insulting, now it could be that this CL Lowballer is financially embarrassed.
I had a quick check on CL to see what was available in receivers for sub $100 locally, outside of plenty of Black Plastic Crap and HT 5.1, 6.1. 7.1 I found two that where of the Silver faced type, both I would pass on, but my new found ex friend figures he can do better.
I did offer up a nice Yamaha HT unit for $50.00 but I guess that was $5.00 out of his price range too.
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