World's Biggest Collection of Electronic Components?
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Anyone here have a parts collection that matches this for size and order?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8nbHYOc8ns
Erco perhaps?
I pretty much have all my electronic parts in a couple of cardboard boxes. It's already impossible for me to find anything when I want it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8nbHYOc8ns
Erco perhaps?
I pretty much have all my electronic parts in a couple of cardboard boxes. It's already impossible for me to find anything when I want it.
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-Phil
There is a rather wonderful collection of new vacuum tubes in there though.
My father did a fair amount of that back in the 1970's when components were not so easily ordered and there were no component stores nearby.
I figured that collection of tube would give you a "warm" feeling.
"Sold!!!! It is better off in your garage than mine."
Clutter and collections reach a critical mass where one has to choose. It is either the wife (or girl friend) or the hobby. If you dump the wife (or girl friend), the next event is the estate sale.
At least your dog or cat accepts your hobby.
Pure robbery.
Who robbed whom here? And why, in your opinion?
In this scenario, just listing may not have shown value optimally. More could have been done, and a reserve may well have attracted different buyers.
An auction without positioning the item value, and some promotion to do same may well yield low. Happens all the time.
This is why people will attend. Lots of opportunity, particularly where a buyer knows something others don't.
That is just how those kinds of markets work.
One can also make the argument investing that time in positioning and promoting also costs and just moving whatever it is may be worth it too.
Seems the latter applies here.
On the other hand, if the owners hadn't found a ready buyer willing to quickly haul away the lot they might have had to pay to have it all disposed of as toxic waste... lots of lead, a bit of mercury, etc.
Sounds like this was an estate sale or dear old dad had a stroke and was moved into a rest home.. so the family wanted to clear it all out quickly.
When you have a huge pile of desoldered used electronic components, point of view may suddenly shift unfavorably.
I'm kind of guessing all those new tubes could have fetched a lot more sold separately.
That mercury switch thing is worth a few dollars as an antique curio.
And all those scope tubes, wow!
By, "and all this sold for $405 on ebay!" do they really mean the mercury switch thing, scopes and magazines?
That's why I think it is crazy, it was probably local pickup only, I may have missed parts of the video.
Was I using the take me literally font?
*Que the questions about if I actually think there is a literal font
Yeah if it was local pickup, I might have had an issue with that requirement. Still, wow. Just reminds me of stories of some old lady selling a rusted out gem of a car in a barn for pennies on the dollar.
I pay more than that for car insurance and health insurance I don't even want.
Oh, totally. It's a screaming deal.
You know how text is... happens.
-Phil
I did not mean to imply any leftistism with my question. I was honestly wondering if you thought the price was too low for such a treasure trove or too high for such a pile of useless junk.
400 dollars does seem low to me. I would pay that for just the tube collection, or the scope collection etc.
But not many people can deal with the whole caboodle. You need the transport, the storage space, the time, to handle it all. So low does not surprise me.
So it seems to me that it could have been set up as an Ebay store and everything could have been sold nearly item by item.
-Tor
I did visit a hackerspace here in the Detroit area, and I'd say they have 1/10 to 1/5 of that guys collection, and it was pretty well organized. I didn't know alligator clip wires could be anything but an impossibly tangled slinky like mess. Learn something new every day.
I get the impression that the original collector did not sort through, bin, and label everthing in a nice, new clean box with a clear label. Just consider how we all accumulate parts. It doesn't occur that way. This is too consistent, too methodical.
It appears that the original collector had someone come in and re-organize all and everything as an act of love -- maybe his kids because he was getting too old to easily manage things.
I use food bins, but in successive clean-ups I ended up with different brands and sizes. Mostly I use plastic zip-lock bags as I can remove the air and get a lot more parts stored away in a shoe box. Bins and cans have a tendency to include a lot of empty air space.. so your storage space gets huge.
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I do dream up storage schemes and envision one day having a bar coding label on each and every bag so that I can monitor running low on components.
It is a nice dream. I have other nice dreams too.... But then a brainwave upsets them and I jump into something else.
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Yes, it would be easy to set up as an EBay store, or just to open shop in a vacant Radio Shack location. Buying electronic inventories often end up in a huge mess, but this one is extremely tidy.
The true value might just be the inventory system it provides for a retail shop, not the actual components. The next step would be to simply set up a computerized inventory database with a bar code scanner and a bar code label printer.