Try voting for the poll i personally would never spend more then $40. But it would have to be rare or I wouldn't buy it.
It would really depend on the total condition, rarity, and such of the radio to put a price on it. About ten years ago I could pick up about any console radio I wanted for around 10-20 dollars (except Zeniths of course!
). Now the prices keep spiking up and down. Ebay ruined alot of the good deals as people quickly became "ebay experts".
yea i know what you mean
All the radios I buy are broken in someway and I payed more than $50 for most of them.
Steve
Depends greatly on the radio. 50 is nothing these days for a decent, interesting radio, working or not.
yea there getting more and more hard to find
Broken and non working are I suppose two different issues, but if it was what I was looking for........Yeah, I'd throw down 50 or more, sure, why not?
I paid $50 for a floor console that was realy beat up... but I realy wanted a console piece. With a lot of work it turned out great.
Mostly I have to wait for an opportunity in the $10-20 range, but I still have fun with what I find.
My current limit is under $50 delivered. That way if I get something hoplelessly gone, it's not a big bite.
I think Bill (exray) and Jayce said it for me. It depends greatly on the radio in question, its condition, etc. You can expect to pay a LOT more than $50 for a non-working Philco 90 cathedral, as an example.
Or a late-model Radiobar if there's any glassware at all.
Broken in what way, and what radio?
Broken all over or broken in pieces, just pieces of broken radio, or broken into pieces of radio all broke up from pieces broken off piecemeal? (Bear with me guys, won't you? I just survived an MRSA infection which could've 86'd me, according to the local medical oracles, and I've just paid out what I hope is the last of $5300 in medical bills. HIC!)
I bought a Zenith 6S362 for $20 with a badly broken dial glass, dial itself in very good condition, and faded ripped grillecloth, but all the knobs were present, making it worth the price, to me, for the knobs themselves. Chassis is clean and the speaker. My Zenith 7S240 needed the two "Pinched" lower knobs and one on the top of the triangular bezel. I have a 7S261 which needs two pinched lowers, and the "hat" upper, so I could outfit the '261 at the expense of the '240, which lacks the speaker. Do missing parts constutute the "broken" aspect of a radio in our definition? Both the '240 and '261 came into my possesion with only (1) correct knob, (1) of the "pinched" ones. Should I just go back to my 7&7 & fail to forget not remembering to soak my head overnight?
Dialog from episode of Gilligan's Island:
Skipper: "How did the radio get broke?"
Gilligan: "I don't know, skipper, it's just one of those things!"
Skipper: "One of what things??!!!"
Gilligan: "One of those broken radio things?"
Another example of a "broken" radio:
I just picked up a Philco 52 grandfather clock. Just like the 570 except its front panel was drilled for three shafts instead of four, so that the 52 chassis will fit. It also has a different escutcheon (again, 52 instead of 70). These are extremely rare, with only two (so far) known to exist including this one. The only other one I am aware of is in a private collection. There are probably some others out there that have survived, but have not yet "come out of the woodwork," so to speak.
I paid $175 for this set, and it needs a fair amount of woodwork; the veneer on the front panel is delaminated and cracking at the top, and a chunk of wood is missing on the bottom left foot. But for what it is, I am happy with my purchase and do not feel I "overpaid" at all.
Now if you mean "broken" as in seriously broken cabinet, I saw a Philco Hippo (46-420) yesterday, with a chunk broken out of the side and a nice big crack around it from top to bottom. It also had some overspray from where someone had been spray painting something close to it at some time. $29.50. I passed.
Got to agree with several of you. Depends on what it is. There was recently a 16B tombstone on eBay in HIDEOUS condition both cabinet and chassis wise that still went for over 50.00. If it is somthing I am looking for, or have the parts for, or have the expertise to fix, then I will consider going after said non working radio.