{"id":21329,"date":"2016-09-13T06:25:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T10:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=21329"},"modified":"2016-09-13T06:25:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T10:25:28","slug":"radio-dakar-qsl-card-sells-for-1195-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/radio-dakar-qsl-card-sells-for-1195-on-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio-Dakar QSL card sells for $1,195 on eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares a link to this Radio-Dakar QSL card<\/a> that just sold on eBay for $1,195 US:<\/p>\n

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As Dan stated…“Holy Crap!”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Checking out the bidding history, it appears there was definitely a bidding war going on, with the buyers entering substantial bid increments.<\/p>\n

This QSL card started out life on eBay at $9.50 with free shipping.<\/p>\n

Amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares a link to this Radio-Dakar QSL card that just sold on eBay for $1,195 US: As Dan stated…“Holy Crap!”\u00a0 Checking out the bidding history, it appears there was definitely a bidding war going on, with the buyers entering substantial bid increments. This QSL card started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,894],"tags":[2635,331,899,5465,5464],"class_list":["post-21329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-qsl-gallery","tag-dan-robinson","tag-ebay","tag-qsl-cards","tag-radio-dakar","tag-radio-dakar-qsl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5y1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45407,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/zoe-more-tristan-da-cuhna-qsl-cards-in-the-wild\/","url_meta":{"origin":21329,"position":0},"title":"ZOE: More Tristan Da Cuhna QSL cards in the wild–?","author":"Thomas","date":"September 17, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares the following guest post: SWLing Post readers may recall the story we published last year about the appearance of a rare QSL card from Tristan da Cunha. 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