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Old 4th Nov 2018, 10:51 pm   #16
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Default Re: Radiophile Auctions

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Originally Posted by Sean Williams View Post
only serves to introduce people selling stuff that is really not worth the minimum bid.
I attended the last two Cowbit auctions and it has to be said the amount of lots and the quality of the lots has fallen off severely.

In the last auction nearly every wooden radio almost without exception had signs of damp storage and woodworm, I bought a rough set for spares to find the output valve had been recently removed, the tape recorder I bought had its ECC83 missing. That suggests to me that parts of 'value' are being removed and sold separately ?
The usual people were there buying up the valves at any cost to resell at a profit...
I probably won't bother anymore, sad to see it go this way....
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