[AJD] What is this all about?

[Ronald L. Cook]

It looks like two bidders want the same thing.  Manuals are generally 
available from dealers in such things for around 35 bucks or less.  I think 
that is alot for a fairly common implement manual.  The shipping is at 
least where it had ought to be.

This eBay stuff has made it difficult to buy manuals at reasonable prices 
at farm auctions anymore.  The days of the whole farm's collection of 
outdated manuals in a cardboard box for $2.00 seem to be in the past.  It 
is also getting so the auctions do not include the manuals with the 
implement as much as they used to especially the estate auctions.  Not so 
much the going out of business auctions where the owner is 
present.  Auctioneer driven there, I think.  They fool around on eBay too, 
or have an antique store the wife or kids operate.

Not long ago, $51.00 would have come pretty close to buying a No. 9 sickle 
mower.  My No. 8 was expensive with the mounting brackets for a 2-cylinder 
and a hydraulic cylinder and hoses for $150.  The auction clerk handed me 
the original manual after the successful bid.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA


>Ok, so JD implement manuals usually don't sell for much on eBay. But what is
>this auction all about? See eBay auction Number 7199969388.  And this is a
>60's manual as well.
>
>I can speak to my own personal experience relative to finding this
>particular model number mower's Operators manual.  I committed to my brother
>in Iowa, while visiting, that I would send him a 9 & 9W original operators
>manual in June of this year primarily because I thought I had one at home
>here. Turns out I was wrong; I had an original 9 Manual but not the
>combination. So no big deal, off to eBay. None! Took me till September to
>find one. And the very first one that came up on eBay, I purchased. And let
>me assure you I didn't pay anything close to this current price.
>
>Why is this particular original manual so scarce? Or is it as simple as: at
>this particular time two bidders want the same thing?
>
>Dean A. Van Peursem
>Snohomish, WA 98290
>
>Forbidden fruits create many jams!
>