How much would you pay for a new old stock Bantam Curado?

[fishwizzard]

9 minutes ago, jbsoonerfan said:

 

Yea, because the post that bought it back was very informative. 

Oh, no argument there, I was speaking about a locking of all old threads.  I think the usefulness of keeping them all open outweighs the slight annoyance of clicking on a completely irrelevant one. I would love a lot less separate "Tell me about *common/popular tackle* !?!?" threads and would rather people use and enjoy search functions, so I can deal with the occasional zombie thread. 

 

And honestly it's little embarrassing when you do it by accident so I don't think most people do it more then once, I know I am super careful about checking dates now  

 

 

[OnthePotomac]

Don't know if this will help, but last year I sold one on 14 year old Curado 100 B reels in perfect shape with the box and papers for $85 and the buyer was really happy to get it. It also had ABEC7 SS spool bearings and CarbonTex drags. My reels lay on a foam rubber pad on the deck so there are no marks or rug rash on them.  I have two left and now he wants another one, but they are just too nice to let go.

[Big-Bass]

On 5/6/2020 at 11:15 PM, fishwizzard said:

While most of the time it's just funny/dumb, sometimes I think it makes sense to add to a super old thread with new info, esp if it's a technical topic.  

 

Also in better times I would pay MSRP for a NIB oldstock reel if I came across one that I was into.  

I agree!  If you could find NOS certain Daiwa and Shimano reels, I would pay retail for them simply because of both their fishability and collectability.  There is something to be said with reels from about 1998-2008.  True quality at the time when the economy was doing really well and the price for the quality was there.  Not saying anything bad about anything new, but my TD-Z's can cast as well as any reel out there at this point.  And I have tried and compared many.