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Decca junior portable

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Hi
I whats a real price to sell decca junior portable ca. 1922 in very good condition ?
With crescendo reproducer.

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kropton wrote:Hi
I whats a real price to sell decca junior portable ca. 1922 in very good condition ?
With crescendo reproducer.
If you look on Ebay...you can buy a nice one right in the US for $325 and no one is buying. There is no "real" price on any of these items. It's whatever someone is willing to pay and you both walk away happy... ;).
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Decca-Junior-Po ... SwOVpXcM2t

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gramophone78 wrote:
kropton wrote:Hi
I whats a real price to sell decca junior portable ca. 1922 in very good condition ?
With crescendo reproducer.
If you look on Ebay...you can buy a nice one right in the US for $325 and no one is buying. There is no "real" price on any of these items. It's whatever someone is willing to pay and you both walk away happy... ;).
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Decca-Junior-Po ... SwOVpXcM2t
And it has the wrong soundbox for the machine !

McKeown's Law of collecting ( from his camera book )

1) The price of an antique collectable is entirely dependant upon the moods of the buyer and seller at the time of the transaction .

2) If you pass up the chance to buy an item you really want , you will never have that chance again .

3) If you buy an item because you know that you will never have that chance again , a better example of the same item will be offered to you a week later for a much lower price!

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So true.

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Seconded.

My collection is full of examples which prove those theories. I could add another:

4. When you find and buy an example of something you have been looking for the price will be high due to other buyers with similar interests stimulating the demand. However when you sell the exact same item there will be little interest due to your competitors having also now found similar examples for themselves.

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I'll add this to the above; from the Telechron clock website:

http://www.telechron.net/features/glossary.htm

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