Getting too much now

[Greg Gore; WA1KBQ]

It's just a newbie who figures he can make a fortune selling his junk box 
stuff on eBay. You see it all the time and we just ignore it now. He will pay 
fees for a while before he figures it out. There is also a Viking-Two in the 
transmitters section with a buy-it-now of $900. Same deal, it will have birthdays 
over there until he learns what Viking-Twos are worth. I think the big 
attraction to eBay got started about 6 or 7 years ago. Two bidders wanted to 
reconnect with the nostalgia of their novice days when a Hallicrafters S-38 turned up. 
They both wanted it pretty bad and they bid it up to over $300. It was the 
talk of the airwaves for about a week and hamfests have never been the same 
since. Everybody vacuums them now for a pile of stuff to sell on eBay but looking 
for boxes and bubble wrap all the time gets old.

Greg

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