Some people just think their stuff is gold

[LawnBoy-5247]

Check out this Craigslist posting. It floated around for several months and I just noticed it is up again, he has not sold anything.

http://kansascity.craigslist.org/for/5961498300.html

 

[Stuart in MN]

If you think their prices are too high, just forget it and move on to the next ad.

 

[Roberts210]

LawnBoy, that CL ad is WEIRD. Thanks for posting it. I can't imagine anyone paying some of his prices, and many of his pictures are dark and don't show much. I mean WHAT is the machine in the 5th picture? Anyone know? I guess somebody who ran one years ago could tell, but if you weren't familiar with it you wouldn't know what the hell it did. Anybody here know? And a crummy old C-man radial arm for over $250. Yeah right. I wore out several of those in the 1970's. I'd like to see what the vises look like tho.

 

[kwoswalt99]

LawnBoy, that CL ad is WEIRD. Thanks for posting it. I can't imagine anyone paying some of his prices, and many of his pictures are dark and don't show much. I mean WHAT is the machine in the 5th picture? Anyone know? .

Power hacksaw. A nice one too.

 

[JJThrasher]

What is this the third or forth thread posted here recently about prices on CL?

 

[Cope]

In 1976 that drill press sold for $279-299. I got mine for $199 because they thought it was a return.

 

[thehorse13]

Craigslist is like anything else. You have to sift through mounds of garbage to find a single treasure.

 

[Hammer1963]

That's called "Blanchard-Stevens Syndrome" in my world. If one of them has owned it then it must be worth more

 

[Packard V8]

I scan through our local craigslist every day and there are a few numbnuts who keep throwing up the same **** against the wall every day. There is **** no one would take for free which gets bumped up to the top every day or every week. Because it doesn't cost anything and maybe they've one time caught a fish with that stinkbait, they keep doing it. All we can do is ignore that which fits the criteria and hit the "prohibited" for those which don't.

jack vines

 

[bonneyman]

Sometimes you find gold. But there's alot of fools (gold, that is) out there.

 

[kwoswalt99]

TV shows like American Pickers don't help.

 

[Slackmaster G]

Haha so true it all looked like curb treasures to me . I like vintage but vintage power tools are suspect at best and thusly deeply discounted . I just saw a feller here in cny relist his vintage tools I tried to buy a few at his asking price and he refused wanting to bundle old screwdrivers and pliers at ten dollars a pop when all I wanted was the rare vintage wrench . He undervalued the one and overvalued the others are tried to cover it with a bundle deal. Not selling the ad was pulled then reposted. The moral is market determines value not sentimentality or guesstimates.

 

[Slackmaster G]

Pickers??? Yeah I watch that . They buy what they know they can resell. How about estate sales? Here in ny the resellers rule and plain folks are left to fight over scraps . Yet people still grab and run with the most useless stuff. My wife and I argue cause I don't like waiting in line to fight to buy who knows what yet will drive hours to get a single item I really want . Who is right ?

 

[rickhigginshtbr]

Sometimes the misses tells me to list stuff that I really don't want to... but in reality, have no room / use for. Those prices are usually set higher

 

[wrenchr]

Here is my opinion, it is CL and you are going to get low ball offers. Not sure what anything there is really worth but if it was something I wanted I'd still go look at it and if it checked out make my offer. He is going to either take it or not. Sometimes being there in person looking and making an offer is enough to sway the deal.

 

[davethorik]

Here is my opinion, it is CL and you are going to get low ball offers. Not sure what anything there is really worth but if it was something I wanted I'd still go look at it and if it checked out make my offer. He is going to either take it or not. Sometimes being there in person looking and making an offer is enough to sway the deal.

Or you could be like the last scumbag i dealt with when i was trying to sell a 4" Wilton bullet a few months ago on CL. Text me a low ball offer then when I refuse, start insulting me via text. Telling me vise wouldn't sell. Guess what? It did. To someone else, who wasn't a *******.