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<DIV><SPAN class=496332702-29121998><FONT color=#0000ff>Well, here we go... I
can't let that sit still... I would like to suggest that I would be happy to buy
all the MINT </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN class=496332702-29121998>75S-3(c)s at $1200 that
anyone would care to offer. Just past Christmastime, I can't do that. I couldn't
buy even one. But, gentlemen, there aren't that many MINT 75S-3(c)'s around
period-much less for $1200. Anyone keeping track of prices here, on the BA
USENET lists, and in the Yellow Sheets, would know better than to </SPAN><SPAN
class=496332702-29121998>make statements about $400/$600 too much etc etc- or
possibly you must have missed the '(C) as well as the word MINT.
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN class=496332702-29121998>With Collins rcvr
prices, the 75S-3(c) is the final word (in the 75S line), and MINT
</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN class=496332702-29121998>is itself a
strange word-it has different meanings to different people. I consider MINT to
be a unit that cannot be distinguished from new without magnifying glass
examination. It's pricing is a discernable cut-above that of even CCA-EXC...
because more is implied. CCA EXC 75S-3(c)s have been going for $1500-$1800 for
somewhere around the last 4 to 6 months-and I'm NOT talking about ebay.
Consistently. Regularly. In any economic scenario there are always going to be
good deals, just as there will be bad ones. I am certain there have been CCA EXC
75S-3(c)s that sold for less... but VERY few... until lately.
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN class=496332702-29121998>The Asian Economic
Crisis has been felt here too; and as a result, supply and demand have done
their thing, and prices are dropping somewhat. I don't think there are any MINT
condition 75S-3(c)s that are going to go for the prices suggested-and probably
not for the $1200 you fellows are making such a big deal over. CCA EXC, yes
indeed. And the upper end of CCA EXC is the lower end of MINT. 75A-4 prices have
done the same thing.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=496332702-29121998><FONT color=#0000ff>And Bob, KE6F, I'd lay
off words like "Collins junk" and "...some fool" till I knew
a little more about what I was talking about. Some folks might take serious
offense-and I don't think you meant it that way. It's just a suggestion, mind
you.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=496332702-29121998><FONT color=#0000ff>One last word or two...
I don't own a 75S-3(c) in MINT condition, or otherwise. I watched those prices
climb the scale, and any idea I might have entertained of getting one, certainly
went through the roof with them. They are very fine receivers. For many reasons,
it is the only 75S-X(x) rcvr I would be interested in-but I DO have a 75A-4, a
51J-4, an R-390, an R-390-A, and a 51S-1... and all of them are as far from the
word "junk" as you get. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=496332702-29121998><FONT color=#0000ff>I personally think the
seller on ebay made an error in selling a MINT unit there. With specialty units
such as a MINT condition rcvr, I don't think he has thought very much about his
"chosen customer". The ONLY people willing to fork out the kind of $$$
he's obviously looking for, are those people here, and on the Collins
reflectors-where that word-one last time-MINT is understood, and
appreciated.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=496332702-29121998><FONT color=#0000ff>Ed Tanton
N4XY</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>