I think I should have NOT mentioned the 50:50 sale agreement out club had with a recent widow, but I thought it had bearing on the method of disposing a deceased hams equipment. I listed it as one of the options so the ham in question could recommend to his heirs the ways to dispose of his equipment.
The facts are that hams widow wanted the club to have ALL the proceeds from the sale. She just wanted the stuff out of the house. The person in charge talked her into accepting 50% and the club did subtract the shipping costs from the club's profit. Have you ever shipped an Alpha amp across the company..... our group had UPS do it and they did the packing too, thus having a guarantee and insurance on the amp. In the past our club had a few men who took on small estate sales for nothing and one of my friends used to charge 15%. He felt that covered hauling it to many swaps across Michigan until the goods were finally sold. We are not selfish or mean spirited in situations like this. These were the facts as told to me. The most recent ones in my memory were donations to the club of a single rig and that was the wish of the decedent himself. We are still using those rigs in our club station and field day. Dave K8WPE <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 8:42 PM Dave <rocke...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jim > > I am sure the widows of the hams you helped appreciate the effort. Great > job! > > Dave wo2x > > Sent from my waxed string and tin cans. > > > On Jan 3, 2019, at 8:17 PM, Jim Brown <j...@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote: > > > >> On 1/3/2019 4:25 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: > >> While you quote a 50-50 split with the estate, most individual hams > will do that for a greater share to the survivors - giving all but the > expenses incurred to the survivors. > > > > When I helped a neighbor ham's widow dispose of his stuff about ten > years ago, she got EVERYTHING except what I had to pay for shipping. I did > all the packing. Buyers picked up the antennas and power amps. I bought all > of the hard line. Ditto for a few years ago when a neighbor ham moved out > of his house and moved onto a sailboat! In fact, with the widow, I > categorized his huge junkbox, coax, hardline, and antennas. I coordinated > more than dozen or so of his friends to take down his antennas and his > towers. At least three guys did the climbing, with lots of help on the > ground. And when we had sold as much as we could, several of us helped her > drag what was left to several ham swap meets. > > > > I took a bunch of the stuff I wanted, and paid her what anyone else > would have paid for it. > > > > This is the ham radio that I grew up in, and I hope my XYL be treated > that way too. > > > > 73, Jim K9YC > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Elecraft mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > Message delivered to rocke...@gmail.com > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to djwilco...@gmail.com > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
