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That is what is realy needed! Not sure if it will happen though! It seems that a lot of newbie's are being discourage about the present high prices on the new detectors and are turning to the vintage arena. I guess to them the prices look very cheap and affordable. But buying blindly with no idea of what is being purchased can be a costly decision! I've fielded a lot of email's this week from exactly that group! Education is the KEY! Not all detectors are alike maybe that is why I have so many! But unlike the newbie's, I know all the Pro's and Con's of each detector. Some are strictly collectors's items and have no business being used in the field by anyone! Others can still compete with the "NEW" detectors. ANYONE CONSIDERING A VINTAGE PURCHASE AS THEIR 1ST DETECTOR REALLY NEED TO ASK US FIRST. WE CAN SAVE ONE A LOT OF TIME, MONEY AND FRUSTRATION! Just my 2 cents worth..............HH.....................Joe
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And that way the vintage detectors are left for the people who collect them. So we don't have to pay artificailly inflated prices.
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VINTAGE DETECTORS AND NEWBIES.......DO NOT MIX
I use to think that there was a small group of vintage detectors that were suitable for newbies. But I've come to the conclusion why teach a newcomer how to do a manual detector when you can teach them on an automatic! Case in point, a friend of why mothers wanted a detector but did not want to pay a lot of money for one! I almost sold her one but with foresight I could tell that there would be some future problems! So I just gave her one for Christmas! Ever since it has been a comedy of errors! First she let someone play with it and they left the unit on and ran down all the batteries! So when I came over to show her how to use it, I was dead in the water. With dead batteries, all I could do was go thru the motions of using it and setting it up. But this doesn't really take the place of an actual demonstration with a live detector! The next time that I talked to her, she had gotten new batteries but evidently someone had pulled loose a wire upon re-installing the batteries! So the unit was dead again! I finally offered to take the detector back and give her a more simple, turn on and go detector! Hopefully this time, things will work out! But basicly most vintage detectors have many knobs and switches which intimidate the newbie. Some will leave all the controls alone afraid to experiment while others will turn every knob every-which way that it would take an expert to undo the damage! JUST MY 2 CENTS........................JoeComment
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