Sweet looking Motorola Suitcase!

[Eric H]

Check this one out, nice blond suitcase set in excellent condition, has the antennas, the straps are intact and look at the shine on that copper chassis!


http://cgi.ebay.com/MOTOROLA-VINATGE...3A1|240%3A1318

[zenithfan1]

It's on my watch list!!

[Tony V]

Its not very often you find one of these complete and in this good of condition. Even the starting bid is reasonable for a change. I hope someone here gets it.
-Tony

[M3-SRT8]

I'm local to the Set, so, I might go for it.

LJB

[radotvguy]

very nice !!!!!!!!

[mattdavala]

I'm currently bidding on it. . ..

[mattdavala]

Well I didn't get it. That sucks too. I really need a project :-( What the hell is up with these things that let people bid within 10 seconds of the auction ending? It seems like an automatic bid. That just doesn't seem right. My bid was highest until 10 seconds. WTF? It ended at 242.50

Upset Tv collector.
Matt Davala

[Eric H]

Matt, that's a bummer you didn't get it, hopefully someone here did?
I'm actually surprised it went for so little considering the condition, must be the economy.

The Suitcases (and the Bakelite's) have been high for a long time, if they are clean with all the attachments.

I paid $200 for mine almost 10 years ago and it had some spots on the case (they cleaned up fine) it's wasn't even on eBay, just some guy who contacted me and asked if I wanted it, scary but it worked out fine.

[kx250rider]

Definitely one of the cleanest I've seen! And it's the 1950-51 model with the semi-porthole screen, and doesn't use the dreaded rubber CRT gasket. It's going on my watch list too, but I'm still recovering from my Sony Indextron winning bid last week, and probably can't afford to compete on this set.

Charles

[Phil Nelson]

Maybe I'm living in a dream world, but that price seems high to me. I got my suitcase set in trade with another collector for a CRT that he wanted and I had no use for.

These Motorolas must be just about the most common early TV. Cleanliness isn't a big factor for me, as long as a set is complete and unabused. We all know how to clean things up.

Just my $0.02.

Phil Nelson

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by mattdavala

What the hell is up with these things that let people bid within 10 seconds of the auction ending? It seems like an automatic bid. That just doesn't seem right. My bid was highest until 10 seconds.

This is a very common event, probably on the vast majority of collectible-type items on Ebay. I learned early on, if you want something on Ebay, pick the price you are willing to pay (and it better be at least twice the price you see on any item with more than a day remaining), and "camp out" on the item until the last minute before bidding. If you bid any earlier, you just become the target everyone else has to beat. You may still get beat, but then at least you know they spent more than you were willing to pay.

[Tinman]

Originally Posted by ChrisW6ATV

This is a very common event, probably on the vast majority of collectible-type items on Ebay. I learned early on, if you want something on Ebay, pick the price you are willing to pay (and it better be at least twice the price you see on any item with more than a day remaining), and "camp out" on the item until the last minute before bidding. If you bid any earlier, you just become the target everyone else has to beat. You may still get beat, but then at least you know they spent more than you were willing to pay.

People use esnipe to bid on ebay. You just set yourself up to loose if you actually bid early. I had to adopt this as well to pick up ANYTHING on ebay.

Most bid in the last 3 seconds.

[jeyurkon]

Originally Posted by Tinman

People use esnipe to bid on ebay. You just set yourself up to loose if you actually bid early. I had to adopt this as well to pick up ANYTHING on ebay.

Most bid in the last 3 seconds.

I've started to use JBidwatcher. It works quite well. Then there's Ebay's own countdown.ebay.com It's manual, but works pretty well. You can see the bids coming in.

John

[zenith2134]

This has definitely got to be one of those sets which gives off a strange leather-like odor after it warms up. Just the nature of the beast. Tube gear in a wood or fabric cabinet is going to have that old-tubegear smell. Kind of a cool thing, really.