Selling your stuff!

[Harry]

I was working in my shop and saw a few things that I have not used and decided to sell. I went on C/L and Ebay just to see what a good price was to start with. I sold one of these items this morning after my phone blew up with calls. I guess I should have asked more for it than I was asking. I JUST HATE WHEN THIS HAPPENS! Does this just happen to me or do others find it happens to them also?
Keep the Peace
Harry

[Timj]

Sometimes it's hard to know where to price things, but I have noticed that the price of used stuff has really went up too. Especially CCI stuff, things I think are priced way high are gone in no time, don't know what they actually sold for, but gone fast. maybe I'm a cheapskate but stuff is alot more than a year or two ago and deals don't come along often.

[DavidBarkey]

Quality good used tools are hard to come by so are commanding a better $$ these days with shortages and cheap crap tools sold these days .

Dave

[Harry]

I had a couple of Anvils, so I decided to sell the smaller one 50 lbs. I looked different places and seen they were going in the $200 range for a smaller one like mine. So I put a $300 price tag on it and bang my phone blew up. A local guy came and bought it and a few other small tools I had laying around that were no use to me. The kicker is this guy is a collector and has around 70 anvils. He needs another one like a hole in the head. I said to him do you lay them out and admire them and he gave me a strange look.

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Harry

[Eugen]

I had a couple of Anvils, so I decided to sell the smaller one 50 lbs. I looked different places and seen they were going in the $200 range for a smaller one like mine. So I put a $300 price tag on it and bang my phone blew up. A local guy came and bought it and a few other small tools I had laying around that were no use to me. The kicker is this guy is a collector and has around 70 anvils. He needs another one like a hole in the head. I said to him do you lay them out and admire them and he gave me a strange look.

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Harry

He probably does!

Back to your original post. I had a 226 with original wide 12" AG tires at the back, black frame, strong Onan, and stacks, with deck and snowcaster. You know how you get that urge to "clean up" because you hear often how "we have so many tractors" and "do we really use them all" ? Well, so I put it on the market for 1800 CAD. Lots of people interested, and one even sent me a message how he was a collector of old garden tractors and I was a fool because it should be on the market for 2200. The first guy who said he'd buy it for the asking price came with his wife, he said he wanted the tractor and had lots of questions about it. I demo-ed the tractor and we had a deal. While this was happening other people were making higher offers, but I have a policy not to change price after I put something for sale, unless it's a really big mistake. Off he went. The next day the tractor was for sale on FB Marketplace for 2250! and sold within two hours or so. So I didn't have any regrets, because I did not lose any money. But I did think it was a little cheesy for him to make me think he was buying it for himself to use, even telling me to stop by for coffee if I ever go up North by his place. On the other hand, who knows, maybe he didn't like something about the tractor after he bought it and decided part with it and make a profit. You never know with people.

[Toolslinger]

I try not to get too stressed about my selling price. Even when I know I'm way under market on something, the main goal is to move whatever it is along to the next owner.

As long as I'm content, and the buyer is content, mission accomplished.

That said, I didn't let the estate sale company sell my father's tools... Yes, they'd be gone, which would be good, but they would also have just given them away...

[Seabee]

I had a couple of Anvils, so I decided to sell the smaller one 50 lbs. I looked different places and seen they were going in the $200 range for a smaller one like mine. So I put a $300 price tag on it and bang my phone blew up. A local guy came and bought it and a few other small tools I had laying around that were no use to me. The kicker is this guy is a collector and has around 70 anvils. He needs another one like a hole in the head. I said to him do you lay them out and admire them and he gave me a strange look.

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Harry

Are you sure You aren't in Winamac, Indiana? My father in law has probably 100+ block planes, a bunch of Draw planes, God knows what else fills his building. I know on the other side of the building There is probably 20 feet of stuff stacked higher than my head, and he says "There is a set of 4 brand new Hub Caps for a 1949 Dodge Roadster. The guy who bought the car didn't like the looks of the OEM caps, so took these off immediately before even delivered and put something different on the car.

Reminds me of the cartoon where the Father and son are standing side by side with the overhead door to the garage open and stuff is stacked high with stuff falling out of the open door. And the father says "Just think son, someday,this will all be yours"!!! [/size]


Bill Moyer

[Gordy]

Reminds me of the cartoon where the Father and son are standing side by side with the overhead door to the garage open and stuff is stacked high with stuff falling out of the open door. And the father says "Just think son, someday,this will all be yours"!!! [/size]


Bill Moyer
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That is exactly what Dad said to me He did not seem very happy when I told him the girls did not want any of that junk and neither did I, as I have enough junk my self And told him if the girls had their way, there would be multiple 20 yard dumpsters filled from the garage.

The auctioneer did not reject nearly as much as I thought he would, and actually pulled some stuff out of the junk pile I had started


Gordy

[Toolslinger]

The estate sale woman just chewed me out a couple weeks ago for throwing things away... I have to give her credit, most of the garbage pile did actually sell... Probably only a couple bucks, but it was less I had to pay the junk guys to haul off...

I went up to the house last night. I picked up the last couple things I had there. (ladder, hand truck, furniture dolly)

It's finally empty.
Took me since early October last year.
100 - 120 yards of junk removal
300 contractor bags
3 days of estate sale
2 16' box truck loads moved
10 pickup loads moved

That was just the house... The farm, well that's a whole different game that is going to take more time... (I've been working on that for 2 years now, and I almost can't tell)

[propane1]

Reminds me of the cartoon where the Father and son are standing side by side with the overhead door to the garage open and stuff is stacked high with stuff falling out of the open door. And the father says "Just think son, someday,this will all be yours"!!!


I show that cartoon to my son at times we are talking about what to do with all the stuff or why do I have all this stuff. Hehe.

Noel