You know when you are looking at cb's on ebay and they are asking or getting top dollar for everything and yah once and awhile a good deal comes through but never ever a great deal like $5.00 for a Cobra 148GTL. Now if you tried selling a Browning Golden Eagle "just an example" at any garage sale anywhere in the country you couldn't off load it for $1.00 Nearly nobody knows or cares what it is or has any interest in it what so ever except maybe if they recognize a microphone and if they are old enough for some old stories of way back when they had a CB and usually have fond memories of a time back in the day. What I need to do is go garage saleing if I were to know how cheap or at the end of the day they just threw in the trash stuff that wouldn't sell some of the great radios it would make me sick! It seems every time I stop at a garage sale there is a cb for sale but with my luck it is always a beat up junk radio even for it's time but almost always there is stuff being sold at a yard sale way way cheaper than it goes for on ebay,
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ebay responsible for high and low prices
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there are some brand names like uniden and certain model numbers that will bring ridiculous prices such as more than a new radio because they are classics. that is why sellers use ebay to sell those radios. that is how they make their money and there is nothing wrong with that so long as there are people willing to pay for the privilige.
it does not make economic sense to buy a classic for daily use
if you want to make ebay work for you then stick with the lesser names which will often work just as well or better but you will have nobody bidding against you.
For instance, if you buy three oddball second hand radios for the price of one new one then it doesn't matter if one or 2 blow up.
you are still ahead from an economic standpoint and you have lots of spare parts to do your own repairs.
it does not make economic sense to buy a classic for daily use
if you want to make ebay work for you then stick with the lesser names which will often work just as well or better but you will have nobody bidding against you.
For instance, if you buy three oddball second hand radios for the price of one new one then it doesn't matter if one or 2 blow up.
you are still ahead from an economic standpoint and you have lots of spare parts to do your own repairs.
The thing with Ebay is that people get caught up in their "gotta beat the other guy" bidding mentality and drive the prices up. Any auction is like that really. Often the price paid has no bearing on the worth of the goods but rather is a reflection of the bidders ego and how badly he wants to steal something away from someone else. I have only bid on a handful of items on Ebay and prefer to stick with the Buy it Now sales.
Well hammer,
First off most people don't go to garage sales expecting to pay much but a couple dollars on quite a few items. With that said, most stuff that's worth anything doesn't end up in a garage sale. There are, however, exception to the rule.
I agree.....I've seen it many times....CB's on eBay fetch more than they would elsewhere. I've never bought any CB's at a yard sale, but I have found them at hamfests, either in working shape for a few bucks, or maybe not working but it's a cheap fix. Same applies for amps. Twice I've bought amps at a hamfest and put them on eBay and got double my money. Also bought a working ham 10 m. mobile rig for $40 at the last hamfest and sold it for $100 locally. Of course I also recently saw someone selling a used 23 channel Sears Roadtalker with SSB on Craigslist for....get this....$150. LMFAO! And I can get a used working Connex 3300HP for less than this.
But the good thing is not everyone (yet) think their old dusty CB radio is worth $$.....unlike the classic car crowd....who watches Barrett Jackson and sees what say, a mint 1977 Trans AM SE (Bandit) with the 400 cubic inch V8 and the W72 package goes for....and then all the sudden thinks their 1977 Firebird with the 301 cubic inch V8 and a body full of cancerous rusted rot holes, is magically a few thousand dollars less than what that mint SE Bandit T/A just sold for.
First off most people don't go to garage sales expecting to pay much but a couple dollars on quite a few items. With that said, most stuff that's worth anything doesn't end up in a garage sale. There are, however, exception to the rule.
I agree.....I've seen it many times....CB's on eBay fetch more than they would elsewhere. I've never bought any CB's at a yard sale, but I have found them at hamfests, either in working shape for a few bucks, or maybe not working but it's a cheap fix. Same applies for amps. Twice I've bought amps at a hamfest and put them on eBay and got double my money. Also bought a working ham 10 m. mobile rig for $40 at the last hamfest and sold it for $100 locally. Of course I also recently saw someone selling a used 23 channel Sears Roadtalker with SSB on Craigslist for....get this....$150. LMFAO! And I can get a used working Connex 3300HP for less than this.
But the good thing is not everyone (yet) think their old dusty CB radio is worth $$.....unlike the classic car crowd....who watches Barrett Jackson and sees what say, a mint 1977 Trans AM SE (Bandit) with the 400 cubic inch V8 and the W72 package goes for....and then all the sudden thinks their 1977 Firebird with the 301 cubic inch V8 and a body full of cancerous rusted rot holes, is magically a few thousand dollars less than what that mint SE Bandit T/A just sold for.
I don't always find that to be true. There are many sellers who list items with "buy it now" only or start bidding auctions way too high. Then other sellers see these when they are "researching" what their item is worth. Seeing other sellers with ridiculous prices, they assume their item is worth this much too. It is an aggravating thing for buyers who know better. Especially when you are wanting an item and the only ones you keep finding are the over priced listings. But the purpose of selling is to get as much as you can.
If you look at completed listings, the price in red is unsold. The prices in green are sold. Quite often, the sold prices aren't all that bad. You will see lots of red prices of unsold items. And those are the items with the high price tags. They succeed at driving up the prices of listed items. But that is all they have success at, because they usually don't succeed at selling them.
If you look at completed listings, the price in red is unsold. The prices in green are sold. Quite often, the sold prices aren't all that bad. You will see lots of red prices of unsold items. And those are the items with the high price tags. They succeed at driving up the prices of listed items. But that is all they have success at, because they usually don't succeed at selling them.
Overall I love ebay to be honest. Yes you have to pay pretty good for everything but where else could you find lets say a Cobra 148 GTL my radio of choice and of course the older one's like I have still in the box. When I got back into CB a few years ago I didn't know the new one's where not like the old one's so I bid on what the seller said was new in the box and the seller used a stock picture ebay can provide of the new 148 front mic well I won the auction and for a total of $75.00 my radio soon arrived and I was surprised that the box was exactly like the one I bought back in the eighties and then confirmed the manufacture date 1989 and I was disappointed that the seller misrepresented the radio and contacted them and negotiated for a return. Well I don't remember exactly how I soon found out that I actually had found a gem maybe I Googled 148's or something just in time before I sent it back. If they used a actual photo in the box it would have been out of my price range and I am sure I would not own that radio today! I also sell on ebay and have bought things for $5.00 and have sold them on ebay and have received as much as $350.00 for things such as cameras etc. I even bought stuff on ebay and turned around immediately and sold them on ebay and made over $100.00 profit just to name one was a President Washington radio with extra channels it was advertised as maybe not working.
RatsoW8
Supporting Member, W9WDX ARC Member - WD8T
There may only be 20 people who look at that Browning at a garage sale and probably none of them give a hoot about CB radios. On eBay there are millions of people looking and a percentage of those with just have to have that Browning at any cost. Those are the ones who get into the biding war and escalate the prices. eBay just privides the medium for the auctions.
Ebay has done one thing I noticed recently, the better junk at hamfests are priced higher because that can get that on the bay. A hamfest was always a good place to swing a "deal" but its not that easy anymore Oh sure there are still deals to be had but now you have to hunt more.
RatsoW8
Supporting Member, W9WDX ARC Member - WD8T
Good point and the reason I stopped going to hamfests two years ago. I won't go anywhere near one now. I saw too many hams and CB'er selling junk at eBay prices and using that reason for justifying their inflated prices. No thanks and I can always buy an antenna or PL-259's cheaper on eBay...lol
Hamfests have started to suck for the last 10+ years. I sell stuff for reasonable prices. Pisses me off when some tight assed dude offers me yard sale prices.
I just say it ain't eating nothing. Damn near escorted a few dweebs, away from my table. I'll haggle, but ain't gonna give stuff away.
Most of the stuff I see for sale is just plain rubbish.
I just say it ain't eating nothing. Damn near escorted a few dweebs, away from my table. I'll haggle, but ain't gonna give stuff away.
Most of the stuff I see for sale is just plain rubbish.
Low ballers do suck. It is offensive when people offer ridiculously low prices on things, and actually get angry when you don't sell it to them. Like it isn't worth the money just because they don't want to pay that much.
I don't like to haggle. It is uncomfortable for me. There is what something is worth to me. It doesn't matter if I am buying or selling. I try to give my best offer right up front. It is either go or no go. If my best isn't near what they are asking, I don't even bother with an offer.
I don't like to haggle. It is uncomfortable for me. There is what something is worth to me. It doesn't matter if I am buying or selling. I try to give my best offer right up front. It is either go or no go. If my best isn't near what they are asking, I don't even bother with an offer.
And it's not just radios either. Anyone that knows me also knows I am a hot rodder too...I've had plenty of times in the past I'd be selling some souped up hot rod like a 71 Chevelle or an S-10 with a V8 or a Buick T-type....and would have some clowns low ball me offering some ridiculous price. I agree the completed listings are a way to gauge what people have paid for the item.