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In Reply to: Time travel to 1972 posted by DavidLD on May 12, 2007 at 05:05:52:
WOULD I GO BACK in time??? HELL YES !!!!You know it's amazing how many people are so negative in their reply's on this website.
All I have to say is 2 words..... LIGHTEN UP people !!!! This site is for fun.
Reading the questions and reply's on this site.... sometimes I just shake my head at the idotic replys people send in.
Most replys have nothing to do with the questions. I take that as some REPEAT some people have a hard time "READING " the questions put forth.
Pertaing to this specific question.... YES MOST DEFENATELY I would go back in time. Y? Just to buy all that VINTAGE stereo equipment and sell it to you shmucks who pay TOP dollar on eBay these days.
Here's a few words.........ENJOY THE STUFF you have today !!!! Tomorrow is a whole new ball game.....
Most of all... Lighten up and don't take the questions so seriously on this forum !
Have a great day folks...
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Some questions invite serious responses. As for going back for stereo gear and then holding and selling I recently discovered that my good old Parker fountain pen (Made in France, wood lacquer) and several others I have now are items that have beaten the inflation curve and if I went back, I'd probably invest in a certain pens and watches. I almost dropped my teeth to see the going price for the original US made sterling silver 75 that at the time had a price of about $25 and I think I bought from my aunt who sold them through her store for about $15. Back then it was an expensive pen.
WELL a for instance the Pioneer SA-9100 TOTL in 1973 amp sold for $400.00 you can buy them easily for under $200.00 now $400.00 in 1973 = approx. $1862.11 in 2006 So as you can see buying vintage when it is vintage is a much better deal. Federal Minimum wage in 1973 was $1.60 an hour now it's $5.15 (higher in many States)in 1973 the average wage was about $7,580.16 so a that SA-9100 and it's matching tuner would run you about 10% of you years earnings!!!!! Which is why SO MANY vintage items were first purchased by someone in the military overseas where they had no every day living expenses to deal with.
NO going back in time is not a good investment! Unless you going to be buying certain stocks.
It depends on what you buy in 1972. Back then you could buy pristing and even NIB Marantz 9 amps for $100 each as well as the 10bs and 7Cs. A pair of decent 9s today can go from $9,000 to $12,000 while the 10b is hitting in the $2,000 - $3,000 range and a 7C is hitting $1,000 - $2,000. I used to buy and sell these units and if I ever made a mostake, it was not keeping a set for myself.
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