12-07-2022, 11:09 AM
The title of this thread should really have been "low prices.....", rather than "Terrible prices....." as whether being low is good or bad is subjective. I took part in the auction and was very pleased to come home with some bargains. My friend who travelled with me, bought the Murphy A40C; on the way home, he was wondering where to put it! Fortunately, when I called round the following day to deliver it as we had arrived home too late to unload, his wife saw it, thought it beautiful and insisted on it having pride of place in the dining room! It does need some work inside and the speaker had been replaced by a permanent magnet type, with the original speaker coil fitted in the base as it is still in circuit for smoothing.
I did get the one item which I had gone for; a RME DB20 preselector for my RME model 69, incorrectly listed as a SW convertor. Unfortunately, someone else also wanted it, so the final price was getting close to my maximum! The other item which I was really pleased to win is a magnificent, Fada 185a receiver from 1924; I had seen it in the catalogue but expected it to be way out of my price range. Unfortunately, the reserve on the Marconiphone straight 8 was more than I would have been prepared to pay so it did not sell.
I do think that prices were, mostly very low and probably too low in many cases, but the number of people with the desire to fill their homes with large cabinet radios or televisions is declining.
I think that it would be a very big mistake to open BVWS auctions to non-members. VMARS run similar, members only, auctions mostly disposing of Silent Key (deceased members) equipment and the prices there are similarly low with the benefit that members are able to collect more unnecessary junk for their executors to ask VMARS dispose of, the sale proceeds then covering the production costs of a wonderful magazine: Signal!
Rod
I did get the one item which I had gone for; a RME DB20 preselector for my RME model 69, incorrectly listed as a SW convertor. Unfortunately, someone else also wanted it, so the final price was getting close to my maximum! The other item which I was really pleased to win is a magnificent, Fada 185a receiver from 1924; I had seen it in the catalogue but expected it to be way out of my price range. Unfortunately, the reserve on the Marconiphone straight 8 was more than I would have been prepared to pay so it did not sell.
I do think that prices were, mostly very low and probably too low in many cases, but the number of people with the desire to fill their homes with large cabinet radios or televisions is declining.
I think that it would be a very big mistake to open BVWS auctions to non-members. VMARS run similar, members only, auctions mostly disposing of Silent Key (deceased members) equipment and the prices there are similarly low with the benefit that members are able to collect more unnecessary junk for their executors to ask VMARS dispose of, the sale proceeds then covering the production costs of a wonderful magazine: Signal!
Rod
