| Subject: Re: New Cammo Dude truck |
| From: "miso@sushi.com" <miso@sushi.com> |
| Date: 05/11/2009, 04:13 |
| Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.area51 |
On Nov 4, 7:59 pm, "m...@sushi.com" <m...@sushi.com> wrote:
On Nov 4, 12:14 pm, "Lumpy" <lu...@digitalcartography.com> wrote:
m...@sushi.com wrote:
I've bought from Murphy once in a while, but generally his prices are
just insanely expensive.
I don't know. I've never bought from him.
He had those rubber plant antennas
three for $25. I think they were 130-170Mhz
broad banded. I don't see them today.
Maybe he's down to little or nothing remaining
in stock.
I can't imagine what it would be like to be
a surplus reseller. Buy a thousand bomb sights
for a few dollars, then sit on the stock for
20 yrs while you sell one or two now and then.
Lumpy
In Your Ears for 40 Something Yearswww.LumpyMusic.com
The military/feds got smart and started their own online auctions.
They are not terribly handy since you have to pick up the goods in
person. Anyway, these dealers have a much harder time getting surplus
stuff now, or more correctly, it is no longer pennies on the dollar.
Some base in Virginia or West Virginia has all the excess Navy test
equipment. If you follow the auctions, the gear ends up on ebay at
double the government auction. I don't think these vendors can afford
to sit on gear for decades anymore.
Similar to Murphy, but not the same caliber, is C and H:http://www.candhsurplus.com/
Murphy and C&H sell on ebay too.
This is the main government auction:http://www.govliquidation.com
Some stuff goes here:http://www.drms.dla.mil/
And of course, the NTS has their auction.http://www.nstec.com/auction/
This photo tell you everything you need to know about government
thinking. at least at the NTS
http://www.nstec.com/auction/auctionphotos/FY10-0002-01.JPG
They are selling off the total crap that is in the front of the photo,
while in the back, there is stuff slowly aging and becoming crap.
There is a 7000 series Tek scope with a pile of plug-ins on top of it
in the cage. A decade ago, a hobbyist might have paid money for it. I
was still using a 7904 in the late 80s. So now that pile will get
dustier until it really reeks, and they it will show up on the auction
website.
I cruise the silicon valley surplus shops and just laugh at the
33.4kbps modems and 10baseT ethernet on the shelves. An old bomb sight
might get sold as a collectors item, but nobody longs for the day of
the Bell 103 modem.
