I was never complaing go reread my posts.i could care less if i ever found or bought anymore gear cheap .im not a flipper im a collector so most the gear i buy i keep and due do space restraints in the house i live in now ive almost got it down to where i can walk around the house without tripping ove gear that ill never use or probally never sell but i do like having a collection of gear that i spent over 20 years collecting.
I've actually got 2 consoles, one of them a 1941 Arlington (made by Wells-Gardner for some sort of department store chain) console that is AM/SW and has a fully Functioning Oak model 6666 78 RPM Only Record Changer, the second one is a mid 1950s vintage Grundig-Majestic Console that needs to be electrically Restored (I started on it but ran into some issues that I can't figure out what's going on with it).
Yes, yes, they very well do. There will always be this, until the robots take over. I wonder what a 2025 android will mark up a Sansui integrated circa 1970?True to that but sometimes things slip through the cracks.
I would but most of the stuff I want to sell I don't want to ship them because its too much of a hassle to go to the post office and buy boxes and hope the items will fit and then have to pay the shipping costs (even though technically the buyer is supposed to pay the shipping costs, you still have to pay shipping costs as well, which is a crock.) Plus I don't trust the UPS or the USPS with shipping of items like old glass and ceramic lamps or old audio or video equipment, I had listed an old HI-FI Betamax player on ebay and i got two hits on it, one of them was near by me and they could of met me somewhere to pick it up but i didn't see that offer in time before it expired, and the other offer came from someone that lived down state from me and he wanted to have it shipped but the Betamax VCR weighed almost 50 pounds and would of costed almost $60 to ship it and I tried to do it but I just couldn't do it because I didn't want to have to pay the $60 to ship it, because I'm already in a low income situation as it is (I'm on disability because of my Autism) and fixing up and reselling vintage electronics is kind of a side job for me to supplement my income, so it doesn't make sense to be spending more to sell and ship an item than I got into getting the item and fixing it up and selling it for in the first place.
Well the thing is that I would love to collect all sorts of vintage audio equipment (tube radios from the 1930s-1950s, stereo receivers from the tube era to the beginning of the solid state era, etc.) but I don't own my own place right now and my mom and sister would have my hide if they saw me with a large collection of old tube radios or stereo equipment, they give me a hard enough time with the stuff I already have (which isn't really that much), and my behavior specialist and my staff person that works with me from a local organization that works with people with disabilities, are discouraging me from buying stuff for my own use, they only want me to buy stuff to fix up to sell and that's it. In fact recently a friend of mine from church found an old speaker in his attic and he gave it to me, and when I researched it, it turned out to be a Wurlitzer Jukebox Speaker Model 4005 from 1946 that would of originally went with the Wurlitzer Jukebox Model 1015 (also known as the Bubbler Jukebox) and it turns out its worth $500-$800 in mint condition (mine though was painted over at some point in time so its only worth $200-$400 which is still worth way more valuable than anything I've ever owned before.)
The post office wanted me to pay to ship the betamax vcr, I don't care what you say, but I did have to pay for the shipping of the item and the buyer didn't pay the shipping costs at all! which is why I just canceled the sale all together and just ended up selling the unit to a friend of mine who needed a nice betamax vcr because his old one went out on him.
Well that's the thing if they had their way I wouldn't have any collection of any sort. I have a record collection, a cassette tape collection, an 8-track tape collection, a watch collection, an antique radio collection (which consists of about 5 vintage and antique radios), and a small collection of vintage alarm clocks and alarm clock radios, I also have a video game collection and a comic book collection and an anime and manga collection. But like I said none of those collections are all that big and they are neatly displayed.
exactly, or in my case I get it for free from friends who had the equipment sold to them or given to them to sell (like was the case with my Pioneer receiver), or buy the equipment second hand when it comes up at the flea market or thrift store or antique mall (which I've picked up numerous old tube radios from the antique mall for only $10-$30 because they didn't work electrically) and I have picked up at my Goodwill I work at an old Scott receiver (but it was in too bad of shape to try and refurb as 2 of the pots were broken) and an old Sherwood Receiver which was missing some knobs but I was able to get some new knobs put onto it by a local repair shop but the unit worked great otherwise. I've also gotten a bunch of old portable record players from a friend who used to own a local flea market who gave them to me when he closed his shop down, and or when I repaired something for him, one of the units I got from him was a 1962 vintage Motorola 3 Channel Suitcase Record Player that still works perfectly yet without any electrical work done to it except for a couple of replacement tubes.
Um, I'm not the one that highjacked this thread and made it a conversation about how Goodwill and eBay have made it impossible for you guys to find "cheap" high end equipment, that was you and everyone else on here, I just posted this thread because I was hoping to see if anyone was going to share stories of their most interesting finds in the thriftstore or what not, NOT have my thread highjacked by butthurt individuals that like to complain because the days of finding cheap high end audio equipment at the thriftstore is no more because of eCommerce websites! I was NOT talking down to or insulting people, that's what you guys were doing to me, all because I posted a thread about something I saw get dropped off at Goodwill. The only reason why this thread has gotten the way it has is because it was Highjacked and taken completely off course from what I intended it to be, and that is something that I can report you guys for because you're not supposed to highjack threads and then intentionally steer them off topic!