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Re: Robert O. White in Boston
From: Richard B. Emerson
Date: 1999 Oct 06, 7:58 PM
From: Richard B. Emerson
Date: 1999 Oct 06, 7:58 PM
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
