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Subject: Re: Robert O. White in Boston
From: Richard B. Emerson (navsys@XXX.XXX)
Date: Wed Oct 06 1999 - 21:57:34 EDT
Roger M. Derby writes:
> I liked the idea of an ad in a magazine for older, frugal, people
> (Yankee Magazine) and offering $100 if the device was in usable
> condition. He paid $75 to run his ad in Yankee and bought several
> sextants over the next 12 months from that one ad. He claims all he
> bought were worth more than $100. He picked a non-boating magazine and
> many respondents had no idea what the things were.
>
> Do you have the Second Edition?
At this point I can't recall which edition I have. The idea of
running an ad in Yankee strikes as a good one. Get where people
*think* they know what sextants are (or "should" be) worth, and prices
often go through the roof.
Rick
S/V One With The Wind, Baba 35
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