a queen bee for over $100
05-13-2007, 01:16 PM
#2
RE: a queen bee for over $100
Those prices always make me shake my head in disbelief.
But, I found this little thing on the internet called a Consumer Price Index (CPI) calculator. It lets you enter a price and a year and see what it's equal to today.
http://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/data/us/calc/
In a magazine from 1974 I saw a Cox TD .049 selling for $16.95, So, I entered that into the calculator. That price is equal to $70.65 today. If Cox was selling TD's for $70.65 today I'd definitely pass. But, that's what folks were paying for them in the '70s.
But, I found this little thing on the internet called a Consumer Price Index (CPI) calculator. It lets you enter a price and a year and see what it's equal to today.
http://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/data/us/calc/
In a magazine from 1974 I saw a Cox TD .049 selling for $16.95, So, I entered that into the calculator. That price is equal to $70.65 today. If Cox was selling TD's for $70.65 today I'd definitely pass. But, that's what folks were paying for them in the '70s.
05-13-2007, 02:03 PM
#4
RE: a queen bee for over $100
Goes to prove that the world is full of Idiots. Just because something's pretty and shiny doesn't make it worth anything. The Queen Bee was the biggest piece of crap Cox ever came out with.
Wait, I guess it would make a nice patriotic paper weight
Wait, I guess it would make a nice patriotic paper weight
05-13-2007, 05:22 PM
#7
RE: a queen bee for over $100
ORIGINAL: rainedave
Those prices always make me shake my head in disbelief.
But, I found this little thing on the internet called a Consumer Price Index (CPI) calculator. It lets you enter a price and a year and see what it's equal to today.
http://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/data/us/calc/
In a magazine from 1974 I saw a Cox TD .049 selling for $16.95, So, I entered that into the calculator. That price is equal to $70.65 today. If Cox was selling TD's for $70.65 today I'd definitely pass. But, that's what folks were paying for them in the '70s.
Those prices always make me shake my head in disbelief.
But, I found this little thing on the internet called a Consumer Price Index (CPI) calculator. It lets you enter a price and a year and see what it's equal to today.
http://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/data/us/calc/
In a magazine from 1974 I saw a Cox TD .049 selling for $16.95, So, I entered that into the calculator. That price is equal to $70.65 today. If Cox was selling TD's for $70.65 today I'd definitely pass. But, that's what folks were paying for them in the '70s.
05-13-2007, 06:56 PM
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RE: a queen bee for over $100
I guess you can make a silk purse from a Sow's ear.
C'mon, give the maker a little credit for coming up with something different.
I think it looks kinda purty.
C'mon, give the maker a little credit for coming up with something different.
I think it looks kinda purty.
05-13-2007, 08:05 PM
#10
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RE: a queen bee for over $100
Hmm, not so sure about all this myself. I don't think anyone has made a silk purse out of this sow's ear... Merely dressed a pig in a silk outfit is more like it.
I see this as a marketing ploy. If you can increase a product's worth by dressing it up, you in a sense are creating a new market for the beast. Colorfully anodize lets say a Gilbert Thunderhead .074 or .11 with its "high rise velocity stack intake" and "dual exhaust with headers", put it on a plexiglass or plastic stand, surround it by an attractive display container and I bet you could get some high bidders as well. Who will be the first to try it? Remember it was I who came up with the idea!
Description and presentation do wonders for sales.
Addendum:
It seems that cast metals do not do as well as turned metals for anodizing so Gilbert may be wrong choice here.
Robert
I see this as a marketing ploy. If you can increase a product's worth by dressing it up, you in a sense are creating a new market for the beast. Colorfully anodize lets say a Gilbert Thunderhead .074 or .11 with its "high rise velocity stack intake" and "dual exhaust with headers", put it on a plexiglass or plastic stand, surround it by an attractive display container and I bet you could get some high bidders as well. Who will be the first to try it? Remember it was I who came up with the idea!
Description and presentation do wonders for sales.
Addendum:
It seems that cast metals do not do as well as turned metals for anodizing so Gilbert may be wrong choice here.
Robert
05-13-2007, 11:36 PM
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RE: a queen bee for over $100
rainedave,
Oh, thats a cool tool you found rainedave. My MRC 5 channel radio (a whopping $330 in 1971)
would now cost $1600. Guess that's why I had the lowly $70 (~$355) Ace single channel set.
Go backwards, and a new Hitec 4 channel at todays $120 is the equivalent of a paltry $24 in '71.
And most kits are still a relative bargain. The Top Flight Contender kit, $35 in 1971 "should" cost $177, yet they are
less than half that now. (Oddly, the Guillow's kits are currently MORE expensive than they "should" be.)
A basic OS MAX 40 R/C, $25 in '71 should be $125 now, but an LA 40 is just $60.
Guess we should not *COMPLAIN* to much about todays prices.
Dave
Oh, thats a cool tool you found rainedave. My MRC 5 channel radio (a whopping $330 in 1971)
would now cost $1600. Guess that's why I had the lowly $70 (~$355) Ace single channel set.
Go backwards, and a new Hitec 4 channel at todays $120 is the equivalent of a paltry $24 in '71.
And most kits are still a relative bargain. The Top Flight Contender kit, $35 in 1971 "should" cost $177, yet they are
less than half that now. (Oddly, the Guillow's kits are currently MORE expensive than they "should" be.)
A basic OS MAX 40 R/C, $25 in '71 should be $125 now, but an LA 40 is just $60.
Guess we should not *COMPLAIN* to much about todays prices.
Dave
