Thought I'd post this one for discussion:
www.ebay.com/itm/132577059493
Not cheap at $950 or BO plus shipping.
Seller's Description: "Dated 1938 Western Electric Model 302 telephone with original brown cloth cord and metal housing, found in believed original box. (There is a number on the bottom of the box, 575670). Includes a small packet with four screws. Appears never to have been connected, but missing a small area of paint on the dial. Otherwise, condition is as you might expect had you purchased the phone new in the 1930's. Some original dust still intact.
Check pics - if you have bought from me before, enough said. If you need to see additional pics, I'll do that should the need to relist arise. I really want to keep this phone - don't tell my wife."
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Why do so many sellers offer a phone at a very high price and at the same time present a limited amount of pictures to represent the phone?
Looks like one of those where the wife said "Put that phone on EBAY!!" ;D
Edit:
I just now read the description......I WAS RIGHT!
Quote from: RotarDad on April 13, 2018, 12:14:51 AM
Thought I'd post this one for discussion:
www.ebay.com/itm/132577059493
Not cheap at $950 or BO plus shipping.
Heavens, he DID say "Best Offer", so throw him an offer of $150 and see if he has "auto-deny" turned on in his auction!
Looks like he dropped the price. Maybe he is doing a reverse auction?
Quote from: Pourme on April 13, 2018, 07:19:53 AM
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Why do so many sellers offer a phone at a very high price and at the same time present a limited amount of pictures to represent the phone?
Looks like one of those where the wife said "Put that phone on EBAY!!" ;D
Edit:
I just now read the description......I WAS RIGHT!
Yeah, he says he really wants to keep it so that explains the high price!
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His wife saw the price and said "You will never sell it at that price!...Lower it , NOW!!"....
Ha!
Edit:
Now I'm getting adds in the top of the forum page on that phone!....Ha!
JKL Museum should purchase it. It is a stunning phone and a wonderful piece of history. I hope i look that good when I hit eighty 8)....Doug
Decent, but definitely not NOS. Paint chip on dial, cord ends show discoloration....Probably just very well cared for. Never connected? Yeah right ::) If he's a true phone guy, he hooked that puppy up and called his house to hear it ring. I know I would!
No pictures of the insides nor the bottom. I wonder what the date on the 5H dial is?
II 38
in an old body 8)
I would love to own this phone, but I could not justify paying that much for a Black 302. It is amazing. I do own a NOS Thermoplastic 302 and there is nothing like the sheen of a new phone...Doug
Quote from: Doug Rose on April 13, 2018, 08:56:28 AM
JKL Museum should purchase it. It is a stunning phone and a wonderful piece of history. I hope i look that good when I hit eighty 8)....Doug
Should I tell him, or does someone else want to ?
D/P
Tell me Dan
Price keeps dropping - He's scared to get a runaway. Probably paid a boatload for it from an antique store or something...
It's gone now. Either someone made a deal under the table or the seller found a way to hide it from the wife.
Larry
Quote from: LarryInMichigan on April 13, 2018, 05:23:29 PM
It's gone now. Either someone made a deal under the table or the seller found a way to hide it from the wife.
Larry
More than likely. Probably someone on the forum - the only people who knew his asking price was a joke.