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Originally Posted by bgadow
Wow-I had no idea such a book was ever published! A great find!
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I knew about them, but never had one on a regular basis, nor have I seen one that early. Pawn shops use them as car dealers use the Blue Book. But just as with the car Blue Book, there are radical mistakes in true value of older models, as they don't recognize collector value. Case in point; the Kelley Blue Book was last showing a deduction for the Diesel engine in a 1985 Toyota pickup, but in fact on eBay, the Diesel sells for 10x or even 20x the price of the same truck with a gas engine. When I was following the NARDA book (at a friend's pawn shop) on used TVs and VCRs, the same thing started to happen with TVs once they got to be borderline-collectable. I had asked him why he stopped getting Sony 5" Trinitrons; about 10 years ago, and he said it was because the value in the book was only about $3. And nobody'd pawn one for that. But I'd happily have paid $150 or more at the time, for a clean KV-5000.
Charles