This kind of thing is good info. I track price/value of things I own -- so my heirs won't be tempted to sell the entire radio room contents to a shyster for $50, and to have some general notion of value if I actually decide to part with something. I realize there are a lot of folks who don't take eBay prices as a mark of "value". There are certainly outliers. But a mean price developed over a long enough time (year? two?) for something is a reasonable measure. At least more reasonable than the anecdote from the guy who landed 10 NIB 75A4's at a garage sale for $25 each, etc. Heck, I still think I might find a Johnson 500 sitting by the curb with a big FREE JUNK sign on it
And it helps when taking something to a fest. If you think about what the NET proceeds of a sale are, all things considered (e.g. fees, packing materials, labor, sweat) you're lucky if you take away 80% of an eBay sale price in net revenue. Gives a reasonable starting point (or stopping point) for what break-even would be in another venue -- give or take how badly you want to sell it, or how badly you want to come off another $50 so the potential buyer "has enough money left to buy dinner for his wife/girlfriend/mother", etc. You know the drill ...
So thanks for keeping track of this stuff. I know it's a PITA to do it ... Boneyard Bluebook, Joe Tracker's and others have stopped updating.
