Dayton

[Glen Haggard]

Let's see, is this the fourth or fifth time we have discussed this in the
past year? I thought we were here to discuss Heathkit radios, not Ebay or
Dayton. I especially take offense to someone referring to others as cheap,
maybe you are just asking more than what they can afford, or maybe you are
just asking to much. we all know that many times folks pay more than what
items are worth on Ebay, even the national news has discovered that. Most of
us work pretty hard for our money and so we want to get the most out of it.
Don't call people names just because they don't want to pay what you ask, I
mean look at yourself, you are so cheap that you use a free mail service,
but that is more than OK with me.

In my area we just added a second yearly ham swap and it was very
successful. We ended up with more people and more vendors than we expected
and everyone went away happy and glad they came. Isn't that what swaps and
fest are really about getting together to have some fun with folks that have
a common interest and hobby? This is just hobby you know and if you are
trying to make money of us then you should make wise business decisions as
to were you want to sell your products, but you surely shouldn't be
insulting us just for trying to keep with-in our budgets.

P.S. I have spent more than three thousand dollars on radio equipment just
in the past month or so. Who you calling cheap.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Hyde" <cshyde at YAHOO.COM>
To: <HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 7:06 AM
Subject: Re: Dayton


> All the new blood and many of us old blood are buying
> and selling their stuff on ebay so they don't have to
> spend weekends sitting at a ham fest while cheap-assed
> hams try to bargain them out of every last cent.  As
> we speak there are 10,600 items listed on ebay under
> radio equipment.  Now if that isn't the worlds biggest
> hamfest what is. If you are a seller or a buyer you
> don't have to travel anywhere and spend hours looking
> for your favorite widgett. I like hamfests and I'm
> going to Dayton because I have never been there and I
> want to attend some of the digital mode events. But I
> see the attendance and the quantity of radio equipment
> decreasing at all the hamfests in my area.  Most
> hamfests are more computer sales than radio equipment.
>  I stopped taking equipment to hamfests last year
> because its easier to take it to the post office once
> than drag it around to two or three hamfests to get a
> fair price. Whether or not you use ebay and the
> collecting reflectors the impact on ham fests has been
> enormous.
>
>
>
> =====
> Carl HYDE
> W2CSH
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