hmmmm, I have a marantz I am restoring and its gonna be pricey to sell. not way up there like some of the gurus sell them, but I am not taking it completely apart and washing it in blood of unborn tooth fairy either...
guy calls up, asks how much, I give him the price range...he tells me that is more than what he paid for the one he used to have as a ute. So im thinking, ok....yeah,,,and the point? you coulda paid $4000 for a 1969 442 that would fetch well north of 50K now...depends on the value?
when I mentioned that he didnt value his THEN because he either threw it away or gave it to goodwill in favor of some BPC Fisher from Sears with a remote...he got pissed. I surmise I hit that nail on the head.
suffice to say, when I was really really collecting my 100 pcs of silver in the 90's into the early 00's, it was cheap and I was even buying on ebay and paying, what was reasonable shipping costs. Today, 'cheap' only applies to the stuff you accidentally find at a GW or an estate auction where the attendees are focused on something else. I goto auctions today, and all the ebayers are there with cell phone in hand, figuring out what 'half' of the highest current auction value is and bidding to that. (in a perfect world, I would be allowed to throw them in a river or at least defenestrate them.)
of course that begats the 'ebay restore' - wiped down with a handywipe and mebbe shot with D5 only and called 'recently serviced', only to make rude sounds 8 hours into its new owners life and they come to me all wide eyed and scared...I am sure most of you have been in that scenario