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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by loathar I only saw a few locos in the pictures and no obvious brass anywhere. If some of that stuff is as old as he says,$10/each(average) is a lot more than he paid for them. He said NO shipping. Only pick up. Looks more like he bought out a hobby shop and trying to turn a profit.( I love the threat of "if this doesn't sell, I'm going to sell it!) PS-I'd low ball him.($5500 or $6000) No bids yet. If he's really that eager to sell, He'll take it. [/quote] Yep. My feeling as I got through it all is there's a lot of theater going on here to cover something. Could be a 'trying to turn a profit on shop inventory' as you say. Could be stuff as simple as "what little brass there is is small stuff, in poor condition and not of high value" so he doesn't want to specify. I mean, come on already... I'd lend it more credence if he simply had a specific inventory of the brass. It's clearly the high-unit-value stuff and how hard could that be...? The whole "no, I don't have an inventory" is just icing on the cake, really. I've made a couple purchases of train stuff in large lots (never this big, more like the $1,000-$2,000 range) and always been very pleased with how it turned out. One was HO stuff, most of which I still have/use. One was O-gauge, which I parceled out and sold item-by-item, which paid for probably two years' worth of my HO activities... But it was always a "here's the exact list of what's included" basis. I should have clarified about shipping... He says he won't arrange for shipping, you have to do it yourself. In my particular case, that would mean a big shipping bill (because of where I live) AND he won't help me out arranging it... Others might have a better option just to pick it up. Even lowballing it is too risky for me without some clearer indication of exactly what the stuff is. And, to be honest, I'm about 90% window shopping anyway (though that's probably about 9.999999% more serious than most folks he'll get coming through). Nevertheless, I owe the guy for one thing. I got five minutes of pleasant daydreaming of a huge truck FULL of train stuff pulling up in front of my house and unloading! I could still go for that idea...
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