Anyone here care to share your C band and/or Ku band satellite reception experiences? Worthwhile?

The problem with that is that a lot of people will think you are a metal scrapper and will suddenly have visions of having a gold mine on a pole, even though realistically you will barely cover your gas or even lose money by hauling a dish to the scrap yard nowadays. So you have to be careful how you word the ad, so they don't think you're a scrapper, otherwise they'll be asking for $100 or more because they just know you're going to get rich off their dish.

Realistically I would not pay more than about $20 for a dish, and that's only if it's a ten footer in tip-top condition. At least in my area, most people that have them and aren't using them are willing to either give them away, or they want ten bucks because they figure it should be worth at least that. Strangely, in my experience the dishes in the worst condition (bent or missing panels, hit with baseball sized hail, used for target practice, so rusty it's falling apart) are the ones where people seem to think that they should get big bucks. I guess they figure if you are interested in a dish in that bad a shape you must be going to make a huge profit selling it for scrap. That might have been only slightly true back when China was buying every single bit of American scrap metal they could get their hands on to build their Olympic facilities, but not anymore.

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