FS: ARRL Handboooks & publications

[Richard Carroll]

  What's the matter, Jim--jealous?  Actually the books that I bought from someone
who clearly DID get them from a library-or from someone who had gotten them from
the library-were evidently way UNDERpriced, as evidenced by the fact that they
sold within 5 minutes of my posting, the entire package to a single individual. He
even looked up my phone number somewhere and called me. And I *did* give him a
sizable price break since I now don't have to go through the hassle of shipping
them out peacemeal. In addition, I posted the fact that they were sold as soon as
possible so that others wouldn't be contacting me, but still spent the next couple
hours apologizing to others for the fact that I didn't have a truckload of them.
  You evidently feel like I've broken the "spirit" of the hobby by selling some of
my stuff  in an effort to recoup a small bit of my ham radio expenditures where
the market seems to be very hungry. If I hadn't given so much stuff to newbies
over the years, I would have had four times as much to sell. In fact if there were
any deserving newbies around nowdays I doubt if I would have had them to sell.
They're all hanging out on the 'net.    So eat cake, Bud.

Dick W0EX


Jim Strohm wrote:

> w0ex at SCAN.MISSOURI.ORG <DICK W0EX> displays his mercenary side when he writes:
>
> >I have the following ARRL handbooks to sell:
> >
> >Hardbound..... all binding and covers are excellent, very good to
> >excellent condition otherwise.  All have some library markings
> >
> >For Years:
> >
> > 1975 , 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984.
> >
> >I'll Sell the  9 for $140, or if no one wants them all, individually for
> >$20 each.
>
> He said something else but I (oops) erased it.
>
> Gentlemen, I am deeply dismayed to see people like DICK offering
> books for sale at such outrageously inflated prices.  I can only
> hope that the ARRL will soon provide back issues of the Handbook
> on CD-ROM, so that those of us who need the information can get it
> at a fair cost, and those of us who choose to give DICK his due
> will pay his exorbitant, obscene, rapacious, gouging prices
> for the Handbook.
>
> I have long since lost sight of the vision of Ham brotherhood on
> this particular mail list.  Now I'm mostly amused, and occasionally
> take note of the most egregious offenders of common decency and what
> we used to describe as the love of the hobby.
>
> DICK, I hope I sent you to the dictionary so you could be adequately
> insulted.  As for the rest of us -- true, some among us will pay these
> prices for a book.  I never have and I never will -- and I sold my
> Handbook collection (spanning five decades) at a fair price ($4 each) so that
> fellow hams could share my joy with these books.
>
> Jim N6OTQ
>
> Oh yeah -- DICK mentions "library markings"  -- what he doesn't mention
> is that when libraries retire books, they do so for FREE -- where's DICK's
> Ham spirit when he offers to sell for $20 each some stuff that he got
> for free -- or possibly, even filched out of a dumpster?  Not to say
> it's bad to pick trash, just that it's not in the spirit of amateur radio
> to pick trash and sell it at $20 a piece.
>
> Jim Strohm
> jstrohm at texas.net
>
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