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Auction on 7th. You can register and bid remotely, but you have to arrange shipping yourself.
OT: Auction with old radios and valves
Oct 06, 2017
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Are those estimates for real? There's some right scrap there.
But think of the up-cycling potential. ;-)
*LAUGH*
You will need to ask the auction house how they came up with their guide prices. They are what they think the items might go for, not what you might think they are worth. One man's rubbish, etc. Some items go for prices that I would never pay a tenth of the price for, other things sell at prices that make me really wish I had bid on them. That's auctions for you. Just take a look at some of the archived auctions on that site.
This is one of the auction houses regularly used by Bargain Hunt - I don't know if this is a recommendation or not! (I watch it (12:15 BBC1) beacuse SWMBO likes it). The estimates and prices achieved often bear no relationship.
Malcolm
Guide prices are often given purely to attract the punters.
I don't mind people upcycling scrap, but there might be an original wireless hand-soldered by Marconi that ends up getting covered in chalk effect paint and turned into a desk stand for an iThing.
Owain
Well I have a friend with a lot of this sort of stuff, but its getting him to part with it that is the problem. I have to say though that I'm using an old Rogers Valve amp on one of my computers just now, dates to 1966 and is still going. One of the last Valve amps for abudget price. It still sounds good compared to the hard transistor ones. Brian
that's because it has musicality
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