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Post by BladeRunner now OLD FLASH!!!!! on Dec 2, 2008 23:32:55 GMT -5
OK, I couldn't hold back the immaturity any longer. Did you see that Mark 3 on EBay for $750?...I'm sure it was worth that to someone because it was snatched pretty fast. at was also snatched up pretty fast . It also looked really clean in the pictures. I hope they got a really good radio. I was just astonished by the asking price. I would have liked the mark 3 with the 180 if not just to get the 180....
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Post by gator7 on Dec 3, 2008 8:19:24 GMT -5
Yes, I was a little surprised. And it would be nice to get the 180 amp to go with it. At present another 180 amp is on ebay. Last night it was going at a bid of $350.00. I didn't pay that for my MK III Given how bad it is right now. Hard to believe these things are selling that high.  |
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Post by **GRUMPY** on Dec 4, 2008 4:47:49 GMT -5
All that I can say is there are alot of suckers in this world. This guy just paid what the radio sold for brand new. The radio might have been worth about half of that price used. Now he has one on there for $739.00
And if you look at his feedback he sold one for $639.00 not long ago. I like Browning's, but there is no way in hell that I would pay that for one unless it was brand new, right off the factory line, which we all know isn't going to happen.
Anyone paying $350.00 or even $250.00 for a 180 is also a sucker. I understand people like to collect, but it also comes to a point where people need to get their brain cells checked (if they have any) 
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Post by gator7 on Dec 4, 2008 8:51:42 GMT -5
In this case, maybe the buyer had more money than brains. It is amazing what some people will pay for Brownings off ebay. And who knows if it will work once you get the radio? |
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Post by Night Ranger on Dec 4, 2008 10:27:04 GMT -5
All that I can say is there are alot of suckers in this world. This guy just paid what the radio sold for brand new. The radio might have been worth about half of that price used. Now he has one on there for $739.00
And if you look at his feedback he sold one for $639.00 not long ago. I like Browning's, but there is no way in hell that I would pay that for one unless it was brand new, right off the factory line, which we all know isn't going to happen.
Anyone paying $350.00 or even $250.00 for a 180 is also a sucker. I understand people like to collect, but it also comes to a point where people need to get their brain cells checked (if they have any)
My little rebuilt and tube converted tan D&A Raider looks quite nice sitting beside my Mark III, and it was a whole lot cheaper than what the 180s sell for. |
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Post by Night Ranger on Dec 4, 2008 10:42:15 GMT -5
All that I can say is there are alot of suckers in this world. This guy just paid what the radio sold for brand new. The radio might have been worth about half of that price used. Now he has one on there for $739.00
And if you look at his feedback he sold one for $639.00 not long ago. I like Browning's, but there is no way in hell that I would pay that for one unless it was brand new, right off the factory line, which we all know isn't going to happen.
Anyone paying $350.00 or even $250.00 for a 180 is also a sucker. I understand people like to collect, but it also comes to a point where people need to get their brain cells checked (if they have any)
I bid on Browning Mark IIIs for a year and a half on Ebay. I was determined not to pay over $300. I finally picked one up with an un-amplified D-104 for $235 plus shipping. Once it arrived everything worked, but as expected it needed a re-alignment and new filter caps. About two weeks later the three legged rectifier on the receiver went out, but it was an easy fix. Also the ping capacitor was down to a squeak. I replaced it with a 450 volt 47 uf capacitor I had lying around, and now the ping is just right. It's not too long and it's not to short. You can hear my restored Browning Mark III coming in skip over Sandbagger's live feed at the web address below. The amp was one of my D&A Raider's using cheap 22jg6a tubes. www.shadowstorm.com/cb/mp3s/Browning-Mark-III-8-11-2008c.mp3: ) Night Ranger |
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Post by Sandbagger on Dec 4, 2008 15:04:59 GMT -5
In this case, maybe the buyer had more money than brains. It is amazing what some people will pay for Brownings off ebay. And who knows if it will work once you get the radio? The worse thing is that all you need is one fool to pay that much money and any future seller has a justification for trying to get that much again. (it happened once so.....) Free market 101 says that something is ultimately worth what someone else is willing to pay for it. So we can all sit here shocked at the high price, but the truth is that someone paid it, so that means those radios will be worth that much to someone, especially if the seller is in no hurry to sell it. |
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Post by crazybob on Dec 4, 2008 15:50:49 GMT -5
In 1975, A Browning Golden Eagle Mark III retailed for $750.00. You got the transmitter, receiver, & a banana mic. ...I was making 3-4 bucks an hour. I did come up with over 300.00 to buy a used TRAM back then.
Adjusted for inflation, what is 750.00 in 2008 dollars?
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Post by Sandbagger on Dec 4, 2008 18:10:44 GMT -5
In 1975, A Browning Golden Eagle Mark III retailed for $750.00. You got the transmitter, receiver, & a banana mic. ...I was making 3-4 bucks an hour. I did come up with over 300.00 to buy a used TRAM back then. Adjusted for inflation, what is 750.00 in 2008 dollars? It's probably not that simple. While inflation has increased the cost of some items, advances in technology have made the cost to make things less. A typical 23 channel solid state SSB mobile rig cost $250 - $350 in 1975, but you can get 40 channel SSB mobiles for under $150 now. The other thing to consider, while many would consider spending $750 for a BRAND NEW (meaning made with new parts, not a 35 year old rig packed away) Browning Eagle (assume they existed), the depreciation of a 35 year old radio with many hours on it certainly makes it worth much less than a brand new one. But again, it's ultimately worth what someone else is willing to pay for it. |
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Post by Night Ranger on Dec 4, 2008 22:50:11 GMT -5
Free market 101 says that something is ultimately worth what someone else is willing to pay for it. So we can all sit here shocked at the high price, but the truth is that someone paid it, so that means those radios will be worth that much to someone, especially if the seller is in no hurry to sell it. Yea, but even our over inflated real estate market is running out of suckers. Unfortunately the U.S. government is the latest sucker to line up and buy all that bad debt, and of course it will be tax payer that is suppose to pay that bill. |
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Post by gator7 on Dec 5, 2008 6:56:53 GMT -5
Since a high water mark has been set. It's time to sell one of my MK III's. Maybe $850.00 w/ a D 104 ;D I can dream can't I? OK, Maybe not...  |
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Post by BladeRunner now OLD FLASH!!!!! on Dec 7, 2008 12:30:23 GMT -5
If you are in no hurry to sell. I bet Uo'd get 850 Dollars easily fo ryou mark 3. Just include he word "rare" and "don't know if it works ,but the tubes light up" an the betst selling pint "no refunds" or "I don't Have an antenna to test it but the on the air light up when I key the miccophone" I feel lucy I was able to get mine fo rless than 300 bucks and it came in extremely good condition and everything worked well. I was wanting to buy another radio but a long as there are surkers keeping the prices overinflated, Ill wait. I have seen this before with the mark 3's thta were all going for extremely high prices and then thre were several negaive feeedbacks givin for undocumented problems and severl went unsold after tht and the prices came down after that and that's I picked mine up. it goes in cycles.
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Post by dieseldan on Dec 7, 2008 12:57:32 GMT -5
I contacted the seller asking him if his auction didn't sell would he be willing to sell the One Eighty to me and he said he needed $450.00 for it. Needless to say I don't have a One Eighty yet.
Dan
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Post by BladeRunner now OLD FLASH!!!!! on Dec 7, 2008 20:17:04 GMT -5
He may have the 180 untill the economy gets better or a sucker with deep pockets come by. The guy that had this radio up for sale is either selling the same radio or using the exact same picturs for the radio he has up for sale now. I saves te pictures from the 750 dollar radio and it's the exact same paictures , pixel per pixel, as the one he had up for $750 previously. I apologize if I'm wrong an it's a different radio he's selling , but the picture are the same. I do not to want imply he is being deceptive if he is not. I just know whT ai see and have compared ....
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Post by BladeRunner now OLD FLASH!!!!! on Dec 7, 2008 20:21:23 GMT -5
Here s feeback from a while back... sound familiar
FRONT SCREEN PAINTED! BOTTOM/BACK RUSTED! PLUG BROKEN, CHROME SCRATCHED, JUNK!!! Buyer: wnwclassics ( 71) Sep-21-08 07:57
Follow-up by wnwclassics (Sep-21-08 07:59):
TAKES DECEPTIVE PHOTOS OF ONE SIDE, WATCH HIM! OVER-RATES TO GET BIG $, POOR PKG
Reply by superhawkwss6 (Sep-21-08 09:15):
GAVE FULL REFUND AND STILL GOT SCREWED! 781 HAPPY CUSTOMERS
TRAM D300/SPEAKER/THIS ONE BELONGS IN A MUSEUM SOO NICE (#280262166620
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Post by BladeRunner now OLD FLASH!!!!! on Dec 7, 2008 20:32:28 GMT -5
I asked the seller of the $739 Mark 3 about the same pictures being used on this sale. He said the seller of the $750 Mark 3 stole his photos for this radio For the sale of the $750 radio. Now I'm confused.
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Post by Night Ranger on Dec 8, 2008 9:00:31 GMT -5
I asked the seller of the $739 Mark 3 about the same pictures being used on this sale. He said the seller of the $750 Mark 3 stole his photos for this radio For the sale of the $750 radio. Now I'm confused. That does happen. People regularly swipe pictures off of my shadowstorm.com web page and use them in their Ebay ads without mentioning where the picture came from. The running joke I have with some of my local CB friends friends is ; "Hey look! Someone on Ebay is selling one of my radios again!". One Ebay user really burned my tail. I decided to sell my mint condition Realistic TRC-490 a few months back. I took fresh pictures of it for my Ebay ad. A day later some bozo swiped the picture of my TRC-490 off my shadowstorm.com web page, and claimed it was their TRC-490 in their Ebay ad. To make matters worse the bozo copied the description from my EBay ad virtually word for word in to his Ebay add. I was fit to be tied. I emailed the Ebay user and complained about it. The Ebay user then stole someone else's picture of a TRC-490 off the Internet and used it in their Ebay ad. The moral of the story is: If you are looking at a high priced radio on Ebay search Google images and make sure the picture in the ad was not just swiped off of someone else's web page. You'll be surprised how many of the pictures in Ebay ads are not of the actual radio being sold. |
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Post by Sandbagger on Dec 8, 2008 13:33:37 GMT -5
I asked the seller of the $739 Mark 3 about the same pictures being used on this sale. He said the seller of the $750 Mark 3 stole his photos for this radio For the sale of the $750 radio. Now I'm confused. That does happen. People regularly swipe pictures off of my shadowstorm.com web page and use them in their Ebay ads without mentioning where the picture came from. The running joke I have with some of my local CB friends friends is ; "Hey look! Someone on Ebay is selling one of my radios again!". One Ebay user really burned my tail. I decided to sell my mint condition Realistic TRC-490 a few months back. I took fresh pictures of it for my Ebay ad. A day later some bozo swiped the picture of my TRC-490 off my shadowstorm.com web page, and claimed it was their TRC-490 in their Ebay ad. To make matters worse the bozo copied the description from my EBay ad virtually word for word in to his Ebay add. I was fit to be tied. I emailed the Ebay user and complained about it. The Ebay user then stole someone else's picture of a TRC-490 off the Internet and used it in their Ebay ad. The moral of the story is: If you are looking at a high priced radio on Ebay search Google images and make sure the picture in the ad was not just swiped off of someone else's web page. You'll be surprised how many of the pictures in Ebay ads are not of the actual radio being sold. I get that as well. I've stumbled across familiar pictures and descriptions on E-Bay that ended up lifted from my site's review page. At first I just figured it was the guy selling a radio they didn't know much about and they googled for information and used it to make their sale. Now I have to wonder how many of those might have been fraudulent. I guess it's possible that some people of lesser means may not have a digital camera to take pictures, and lifting one from the internet is easier. But if they really want to be on the up and up, they should indicate that the picture is not of the exact piece they are selling. |
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Post by BladeRunner now OLD FLASH!!!!! on Dec 10, 2008 22:52:10 GMT -5
the only difference is that this guy is claiming HHe's selling different radios himself. He's says this is a different radio than the $750 radio he sold , but the pictures are the same as the previos radio and he's already been caught selling radios using other peoples pictures that show mint radios but when the radios are delivered they are rusted , scratched and not the pictured radio. He refunded the money. I'm sorry but dishonesty burns me.
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