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Post by vance on Dec 30, 2019 11:50:39 GMT -8
The ScubaPro ScubAir J is Rob's at The Scuba Museum. This kind of stuff is going on, but then a really nice Spiro Royal Mistral just sold for about $170. Go figure.
It seems like everyone is trying to sell very high (DivAir for $750!!!), but no one is actually selling anything.
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Post by duckbill on Dec 30, 2019 19:47:38 GMT -8
It seems like everyone is trying to sell very high (DivAir for $750!!!), but no one is actually selling anything. And this is the bottom line. Sellers listing items see the prices on current listings and think those are the going rates.
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Post by vance on Dec 31, 2019 8:57:48 GMT -8
It's a bit more nonsensical than that, Terry. There are plenty of examples of the same kind of regulator in the same condition being listed at wildly different prices. Two pretty nice Sportsways Malibu Diver regs have been listed for many months at less than $20 ($12.88 shipping) each. Two other hopeful sellers have listed two other Malibu Divers that are also languishing (deservedly) for months priced at $89.99 ($15.28) and $89 ($25). One seller wants an extra dollar for bubble wrap. None of them are serviced or listed as dive-ready which could account for a higher price. I suppose this dead horse has been beaten thoroughly, but what do these sellers think is going to happen?
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Post by kgehring on Jan 1, 2020 6:09:55 GMT -8
A lot of the sellers that are asking high prices end up taking an offer for less. The Scubapro labeled Healthways regulators are a highly desired regulators as they were the beginning of Scubapro. $200-300 is a realistic price. Scubair J and 300 were the 2 models.
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Post by crabbyjim on Jan 30, 2020 6:34:09 GMT -8
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Post by nikeajax on Jan 30, 2020 9:21:55 GMT -8
It beats me how people can have the audacity to charge that much and still expect you to pay for shipping!
JB
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Post by crabbyjim on Jan 30, 2020 16:06:14 GMT -8
A lot of the sellers that are asking high prices end up taking an offer for less. The Scubapro labeled Healthways regulators are a highly desired regulators as they were the beginning of Scubapro. $200-300 is a realistic price. Scubair J and 300 were the 2 models. I have a Scubair J in very good condition a while ago that I got for free with another regulator. It’s a nice regulator, good cosmetically and breaths easily. I wouldn’t pay more than $25 unless I was a serious collector and needed it to complete a collection. Different strokes.
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Post by vance on Jan 30, 2020 16:46:35 GMT -8
Thing is, is... Vintage regs, esp DH are rare. EBay is an unnatural thing. People are digging stuff out of the closet and putting it out there to a world wide audience. This is a situation that has not happened before in history. Just because we can find a Scuba on eBay for $80.00 or a MR12 for $30.00 doesn't mean they're worthless.
This is going to come back on us. When this stuff is relegated to only a few $ people are going to throw them away, rather than bother with selling them for no money. I'm sorry, I get the supply and demand thing, but this just shows an un-appreciation for history. Every vintage reg should be restored and put back into use, if possible. I buy and sell many regs just to rebuild them and get them working again for little return. Don't care. It's fun and it saves the relics from the junkheap.
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Post by crabbyjim on Jan 30, 2020 17:25:38 GMT -8
So how is you’re Edsel running?
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Post by vance on Jan 30, 2020 18:46:08 GMT -8
If I had one, it'd be running like a top. But, it would still be too wide to get it in my garage.
Back in the day, if you were restoring a '29 Stutz Bearcat, you knew someone had the part you needed in their attic/barn/basement to get it on the road, but there was no way to connect you. Once there was, the flood of stuff started flowing. Now sh** is readily available and the value of things has diminished to the degree that they are no longer valued. But that's short-sighted. This stuff is irreplaceable and needs to be respected and protected, not junked or thrown in landfill.
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Post by scubalawyer on Jan 31, 2020 6:34:54 GMT -8
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Post by nikeajax on Jan 31, 2020 9:16:09 GMT -8
My wife and I like to do what we call "junk whoring": just looking for neat old stuff! Every once in a while people ask me if I like to watch the TV show "American Pickers": I abhor that show because it makes people aspire to the same type of, as CJ puts it, stupidity and greed It used to be you could go to a flea market and find some swell old swag, but now people have gotten so wily and underhanded they've even start calling their garage sales, "estate sales" and the professional flea market salesman is on the rise selling things like brand new collectors-items like Betty Boop and Harley Davidson merch made in China--SIGH! JB
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Post by cnotthoff on Jan 31, 2020 12:18:42 GMT -8
JB I gave up on the Pickers when they passed on Dad's collection. They were even in the Bay Area at the time. Tool collectors from around the state came to the sales we had, and said they had never seen anything like it. Where else were you gonna get a hog oiler, and a Michelob sign.
Good Dives, Charlie
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Post by nikeajax on Jan 31, 2020 14:36:32 GMT -8
...Where else were you gonna get a hog oiler... Uhhhhh? More esoterica please! www.mitzenmacher.net/blog/?p=1010en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hog_oiler"World War II led to a small but growing collectors market for hog oilers today. The cast iron models are considered the most desirable antiques since many originals were gathered up in war scrap iron drives and destroyed..."Now I know JB
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Post by crabbyjim on Jan 31, 2020 16:27:06 GMT -8
JB, do you have more than 1?
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