A sad end game of poor estate planning
 

Something of concern to old radio dudes and dudettes...

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...94c1dd91f0b3b#

i'm afraid that most of those radios, especially the consoles, are still at risk of ending up in a landfill... they're probably not going to keep the "junk" they were unable to sell for a profitable price...

i agree totally ,it's seem's more & more people, if they can't make alot of money on something they rather through it in the landfill . its almost like since dig.tv came along now, & the[ fishy ] people, there is all asalt on older tv's like this one i found on craigs list today fshg4-3002587170@sale.craiglist.org. i think once these people that are trying to sell the tv's made in 90's on [ crt ] up to digital, can't sell them because the market is flooded with them ,there going to e-waste them or landfill them and the older one's are going with them. what is left allready of them. i started in my area for about 2 month's now on craigslist a want add that i am interested in tv from the 40's 50's 60's tv's ,its tured up some nice tv's like the roundie magi /the zenith 55 / and some others . instead of you hunting for a tv let them hunt you . you have to offer some money ,its been working for me i had a guy call me last, was wondering if i would be interested looking at some tv's that his grandfather had that died yrs ago. he read off a nice list , i will keep everone informed how that go's. p.s. how do you make a link to a sight you want to show that's the email add. its the holland mich.graiglist of tv turned into something

I was in a resale store yesterday that always has had a dozen modern CRT tv's of all sizes on display and operating, often marked down 50%, and now they have a sign that they are no longer accepting tv's. Even poor people don't want a good CRT tv. You know where those sets'll all be going now. But next door at the antiques shop I got a little wooden Detrola radio for $20!

this story of the man who didnt make plan's for what would happen to his collection, i have got see up close what happen's twice in my life . the first time was 1989, i met a guy where i worked he always told me about his grandpa was into tv's radios all his life ,at the time he was in his 90's . well through the guy i worked with i met his grandpa , he was in pour health , i started giving money for some things and somethings he just gave me ,with a long story to every idem ,we clicked right off his house was packed from top to bottom ,he got into radio when he was young and tv later as it developed he was a tv repairman all his life . he would tell me when he got[ older ] he would just let me have most of his things since none of his kids liked this kinda of stuff ,sometime past i got bussy more working ,but still stayed in touch with him, his nephew told me about 15 days after it happened that his grandpa died suddenly and kids were selling the house .they threw everything in dumpsters and they allready halled off some dumpsters, his nephew made the family hold the last one so i could get what could everday after work till dark for a week . the books / manuals alone was worth it .so that is so true if you have stuff you want go somewhere when your died ,put it in writing ,or sell it or give it to someone that shares your interest ,because it will not go were think it will.

I totally agree! This is much better than looking for them. There are MANY antique shops in South Central PA have few radios and NO tv's. Anything but:boring:.....But these treasures are out there.:yes:

Folks are holding on to stuff and have no idea how to unload it if there seems to be no interest to them.

I got many calls about 10 years ago, after my friend had a guy at the local paper come to my house. I was embarrassed to heck, though it was a small piece with a photo of my radios (Zenith am-fms, AK-30 and Trans-oceanic) and my RCA CTC11 blonde with a nice color picture. It was in the Antiques feature next to Harry Rinker's column.

That is easy. When you have CL open in your web browser place your mouse over the address bar (where it says www.craigslist.org ) then left click on it to highlight the text then either press ctrl + c or right click on it and select copy. Then in your post put a space in before where you want the link then either push ctrl + v or right click and select paste put one more space after the link and continue typing your message if you want.

The copy-paste functions are some of the more useful ones that computers have IMHO, and can facilitate doing things fast as well as prevent headaches.

I'm glad I'm nowhere near old enough to worry about death and it's aftermath, but when I am I'll be sure to make arrangements so things go okay....If it is not handled properly I'll be sure to haunt the morons that botched it.:bat::arrow:

I hope the morons who happily dumpster someone's electronics collection, or other, find their own posessions they treasure reduced to landfill as well. I hate to think of where my friend Andy's tv sets and radios went when he died.

I have made arrangements to have ALL my TVs, Radios, & guns run thru a milling machine/lathe after my death...Nobody in my family wants 'em, they all scorned all my hobbies interests anyway, so there...Screw 'em.

If you really want to "Screw 'em" then you could always saddle them with giving away the collection piece by piece to the all the collectors of America. That way nothing rare gets crunched and it is more of a pain in the ass for 'em.

No, I've told my wife to call a couple of people/establishments that I'm sure will fetch her a pretty penny for my old useless "Junque" after I go. If she goes before I do, my little "Girlfriend", Bethany, & her husband, Corey, get everything. Bethany's the closest thing I have to a kid of my own, and, other than my wife & my dogs, the only one who's ever give a shit about me anyway...

Last week I read the obituary of a guy I knew, not well, but at least on a first name basis. He lived alone; he spent most of his free time playing with a model T in his garage. Well, within a day of reading of his death (maybe even the same day) I drove past his house and there was a full-size roll-off dumpster in the driveway. Yep, that's one way to do it. Who knows what will get tossed in?

A story I've told too many times: about 15 years ago I responded to an ad in the paper, "Old TVs for Sale". Turned out that a gentleman in his 90s had passed away, leaving everything to a niece and nephew. He had been a TV repairman, among other things. He owned an old farmstead. The house and all the buildings were stuffed with antique furniture and other vintage stuff. There was so much stuff that it took 3 Saturdays to auction it all off at the firehall up town. The TV sets (ranging from a '50 RCA to a single BPC set, probably a couple dozen in all) were left because they weren't worth the effort to move. Anyway, I bought the whole lot for $50 and while loading up what I could I was talking to the nephew. He asked if I collected radios as well. Turns out, there had been oodles of them. One large building had them stacked like cordwood, who knows how many. The kicker: they had carried a few to the first auction but they didn't bring anything so it was decided not to bother with them. From his description, most were wood-cased. They were all, every last one of them, thrown on a burn pile and destroyed.

I really need to sit down and write plans for my collection. Consider: I own radios that belonged to my great-grandfather. Does anyone else know which ones they are, among my collection of 300-400 radios? Would that person clearing things out know the difference in value between, say, a CTC-5 and a CTC-53?

Ya forget that some of the folks here enjoy your humorous boolechit, ya old clown crab yew. That old "you really don't want that...send it to me" gag gets funnier each time I read a different version of it.

One way would be to bequeath sets and parts to a local radio club. They could sell them off amongst themselves or to others for funds.

let's face it, nothing lasts forever... you can give all of your radios, TVs etc to another collector before you die, but then he will also die someday or he may have his home foreclosed etc... so the stuff will end up in a dumpster at some point anyway...

I think the only way to safely preserve your stuff is to donate it to a museum... then it *may* last a little longer...

A few years ago when my record/radio/anything old and wonderful collector friend died, I was told I'd get a crack at everything in the basement by his family. I said to them: Just let me know when.

Heard nothing.

I was looking at eBore one night, and a beautiful RCA microphone appeared on my screen. Looking closer, it was my hometown.

My friend's grandson was auctioning everything. He'd already sold the mammoth record collection of mint 78's (6000+) and had given away the TV film-chain camera, and electronics (which I bought, and set-up and maintained) leaving me with 2 telecine projectors, that were already mine.

The record cutter, wire recorders, 16 channel mixing board, the R to R decks... all gone. The McIntosh power amplifier that I rebuilt and was told I'd get by his family... gone. The boxes and boxes of tubes, for audio, radio and early TV, gone... to the landfill.

The night of the funeral, his grandson started listing stuff on eGray. So much for waiting a week or two before digging into Grandpa's stuff.

I did wind up getting the little Crosley 1930's radio that was in his bedroom, simply because his grandson didnt notice it. Same for the record player that had a stack of 78's on it that he was playing when he had his final heart attack. His family knew something was wrong when the stack of records was not restarted by him, and they went to check on him...

I got boxes of broken 16mm film editing equipment, because the grandson knew I'd want this stuff. He sold the best stuff.

Even after all of this, I still like his grandson. He says he had no idea that I wanted any of that old junk... as he put it.