FS [AU]: Sudden glut of Dick Smith Q-1280 / Trio-Kenwood CO-1303D oscilloscopes - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: I wanted a rude username
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 18, 2019, 09:19:21 pm
content: 1975-design, low-end. Three sellers, all in Melbourne's eastern suburbs. Don't know why they have suddenly all popped on the market.Black fascia and zinc back:https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/153756374879(The seller's gimmick is to place a box of the iconic Redheads matches next to the item for scale. Missed a perfect opportunity to use Dick Smith's ownDickheadsinstead.)Blue fascia and cadmium back:https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/193258749810Original Trio-Kenwood model:https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/114012449585

author: wilfred
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 18, 2019, 11:59:48 pm
content: The matches are a good way to show scale.The middle one seems the one to go for because it doesn't look heavily used and it has probes.One was sold for $100 back in Octoberhttps://www.ebay.com.au/itm/202762764935That always spurs others thinking of selling into action.

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 19, 2019, 12:19:46 am
content: That seems like a lot of money for such basic scopes, unless they have some unique capability I'm not aware of.I had a very similar B&K which had a fault, I forget what exactly now but I did not have much luck tracking it down. I tried selling it for $15 and got no bites, eventually while I hated to do this I was tired of stubbing my toe on it so I parted it out and got I think $50 for the CRT and $20 for the power transformer.

author: wilfred
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 19, 2019, 12:39:54 am
content: Quote from: james_s on December 19, 2019, 12:19:46 amThe market for used oscilloscopes in Australia is much more limited to that which americans would be accustomed to. ie prices are higher. Also the A$ is US$0.68

author: I wanted a rude username
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 19, 2019, 12:54:34 am
content: What wilfred said. Also low-end oscilloscopes are kind of fascinating for some reason, like some of the ancient onesJay Carlsonrestores, or even modern oddities like theDSO150Quote from: wilfred on December 18, 2019, 11:59:48 pmGood point. And agreed, the blue and cadmium one looks best. Can't tell by the styling if it's older or newer than the other Dick Smith model, but it sure has higher build quality, at least externally.

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 20, 2019, 03:42:24 am
content: Vintage Tek classics are definitely cool, they're works of art. Most of the random low end stuff doesn't appeal to me though, it's not even worth the cost to ship it around here.

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 22, 2019, 11:51:45 am
content: Quote from: wilfred on December 19, 2019, 12:39:54 amVery much this. ^ ^ ^ (and it applies to test gear in general)QuoteLess of a factor, but useful to point out that - to our American friends - they should think of it as a $68 scope.Edit: spelling

author: wilfred
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2019, 10:27:25 pm
content: Quote from: Brumby on December 22, 2019, 11:51:45 amAnd it also hurts when buying used from the USA

author: PTR_1275
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2019, 07:18:34 am
content: Interestingly enough I’ve also seen a recent influx of the digitech (jaycar branded) scopes.Some of the prices people ask for things are horrendous. I’ve seen 20mhz jelly bean scopes advertised for $400.I know all too well the premium we pay for test equipment here. That coupled with the high costs of shipping within australia makes it even more difficult.I’ve got a heap of stuff I am wanting to list for sale because it’s taking up too much space here, but after a bad experience sending something and it being damaged (And the buyer refusing to follow instructions for aus post insurance), I’m quite hesitant. It might be that I drop it off at pack send and the buyer can deal with him for payment of the postage.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 23, 2019, 08:03:22 am
content: Quote from: I wanted a rude username on December 18, 2019, 09:19:21 pmSomeone probably cleaned out the cupboard of an old electronics TAFE building.

author: I wanted a rude username
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2019, 09:06:14 am
content: Quote from: PTR_1275 on December 23, 2019, 07:18:34 amHave you considered listing it on this board? EEVblog forum members are likely to be more reasonable than average.That said, we all learn one way or another to take great care in packing our products for shipping. Sometimes an expensive lesson.

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2019, 08:01:48 pm
content: Quote from: Brumby on December 22, 2019, 11:51:45 amEven that sounds crazy to me, a scope like that you'd be hard pressed to give away for free here, $68 ought to get a much more modern 20-50MHz analog scope. I get that shipping stuff to Australia is hugely expensive but surely there is not THAT much demand for very low end analog scopes? Especially when you can get inexpensive and compact 50-100MHz DSOs for a few hundred bucks brand new.

author: wilfred
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2019, 11:28:52 pm
content: One of them has failed to attract a bit twice now so the demand in Australia isn't enough to justify any price. Obviously the supply of used scopes is a reflection of past demand for new ones and it doesn't seems to be getting higher. I'd say the seller of the one that fetched $100 got lucky selling at a time of low supply. Now there has been several available sensible buyers are being patient.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 24, 2019, 01:12:08 am
content: Quote from: james_s on December 23, 2019, 08:01:48 pmSame here. I've given away vastly better scopes than this, and have seen people also give better ones on the forums more than a decade ago.Looks like they didn't sell.