The DFWCUG DEc collection up for sale

[David V. Corbin]

>>> > >>> Sellam Ismail Wrote:
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>> THE DFWCUG collection is nice, but it's not unprecedented.
>>> > >>> I wish their web pages gave more information about 
>>> the collection.  
>>> > >>> I doubt they'll be able to sell it all in one shot.  If so, 
>>> > >>> whoever buys it will surely part it out.  If I had 
>>> the money and 
>>> > >>> time, that's what I'd do.
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>> --
>>> >
>>> > Evil pure and simple! (parting out a collection if it is 
>>> not unavoidable).
>>> 
>>> I really don't see any way around it.  This wouldn't be the 
>>> first time I was wrong about something, but it doesn't seem 
>>> to me that this collection is very refined.  There's a lot 
>>> of hardware there, and as has been already pointed out, 
>>> there is a lot of crap interspersed with a lot of gems.  To 
>>> find someone who's going to clean out every last module in 
>>> one shot does not seem very likely to happen in this case.  
>>> So either the terms of the sale need to change, or someone 
>>> with a big wad of cash and lots of time needs to buy it all 
>>> up, sort out the crap from the good stuff, keep what they 
>>> want, and then dump the rest, either selling it off or 
>>> hauling it off to the scrapper.
>>> 
>>> Reality bytes.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> 

Sellam,

I know, my original response [included above] was rather "hardline". There
does appear to be "junk" [remember ones man's junk is anothers treausre]
from viewing the photos, and that could easily be split off. The worst of
all possible scenarios I can envision is someone managing to get the "good
stuff" at a low price and then splitting up systems or even selling off
working core plane as art.

David.