10-11-2016, 01:22 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-11-2016, 01:29 PM by Mike Watterson.
Edit Reason: clarify
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Yes. For gauging "price", I ignore "Buy it Now" prices and also auctions with no bids. I only search for "completed sales" (a little check box).
There seems to be ever more high priced stuff on eBay that's not selling, though some UK prices have gone up while Continental & USA prices seem to have fallen.
The real worth of something has no relationship to what people are prepared to pay, c.f. a wooden Portadyne or Pilot with a Bakelite version of same thing, or DAC10 at 1/4 price of the DAC90a (same year and the DAC10 has a Bakelite back and is actually the deluxe version of essentially the same radio). Or Pye M78 vs Ever Ready C, or the difference in price between the Marconi and Ever Ready versions of the same Plessey made "lunchbox" / "personal" radio, based on RCA's 1941 BP10. The Marconi one featured in a GCSE course as example of "Art Deco" though it's not, apart from being twenty years too young.
Real collecting isn't about the monetary value, or fashion, but about collecting what you want to collect, for whatever reason you want. Ironically eventually such collections can be worth more (as a single entity) than idiots that buy stuff they know little about purely as an "investment". Collecting isn't investing.
My only criteria on spending money* on a restore, it will it be reasonably authentic and is it rare enough that buying another in better condition at £5 isn't a better solution. It would hardly be worth restoring any of them purely for resale value.
(* Oh, I have to actually have the money to buy the parts / materials etc)
There seems to be ever more high priced stuff on eBay that's not selling, though some UK prices have gone up while Continental & USA prices seem to have fallen.
The real worth of something has no relationship to what people are prepared to pay, c.f. a wooden Portadyne or Pilot with a Bakelite version of same thing, or DAC10 at 1/4 price of the DAC90a (same year and the DAC10 has a Bakelite back and is actually the deluxe version of essentially the same radio). Or Pye M78 vs Ever Ready C, or the difference in price between the Marconi and Ever Ready versions of the same Plessey made "lunchbox" / "personal" radio, based on RCA's 1941 BP10. The Marconi one featured in a GCSE course as example of "Art Deco" though it's not, apart from being twenty years too young.
Real collecting isn't about the monetary value, or fashion, but about collecting what you want to collect, for whatever reason you want. Ironically eventually such collections can be worth more (as a single entity) than idiots that buy stuff they know little about purely as an "investment". Collecting isn't investing.
My only criteria on spending money* on a restore, it will it be reasonably authentic and is it rare enough that buying another in better condition at £5 isn't a better solution. It would hardly be worth restoring any of them purely for resale value.
(* Oh, I have to actually have the money to buy the parts / materials etc)
