[AT] Some ads from the 12/6 Lancaster Farming

[Indiana Robinson]

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Dean Van Peursem <deanvp at att.net> wrote:
> Dick,
>
> Sometimes antique tractor owners pour way too much money into a tractor and then
> think because they have that much money in it, it must be worth that to someone
> else. Doesn't work that way unless they find another buyer of similar
> intelligence. Don't know what this 1855 or 400 is worth but I've seen a pristine
> 400 that was in better than factory new condition sell for less than this asking
> price.  Sometimes sellers test the market and see if they can find a buyer who
> will pay any price.
>
> I had a guy in Reno, NV call me today trying to sell me an (unstyled or maybe
> styled), he didn't know the difference, JD B for $3900. Not restored at all but
> had just recently gotten it running. He admitted he didn't know much about
> antique tractors but had an uncle tell him it was worth more than $4000. After
> asking a bunch of questions I found out it was just a Plain Jane Row Crop 1948
> JD B tricycle which wouldn't command $3900 fully restored from the frame up here
> on the West Coast unless it was a long lost family tractor. I have lost a allot
> of patience with these kinds of sellers over the years. But... I guess if enough
> frogs are kissed they might find an uninformed prince. These kinds of sellers
> need to become unemployed along with the Wall Street/Investment Bank sharks.
> But... one can set any level of asking price. That doesn't make them worth that
> much. Several house sellers have learned that lesson in spades recently.
>
> Dean Van Peursem
> Snohomish, WA
>
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It is also important for folks reading ads and looking at prices to
remember that the price they read usually isn't the price the item was
sold for... There are a number of different selling philosophies and
some guys intend to ask a pie in the sky price but will sometimes sell
for as little as half as much. Then again some guys are just dreamers.
Not to be forgotten are the poor guys that have spent years telling
the wife that putting more money in the tractor was OK because it
would make it worth much more than the added cost (haven't we all done
that?) .Now she is insisting it bring all of that money he has been
saying it was worth.
:-)
You will notice that I mentioned reading the ads and looking at
prices. I for one never waste my time on ads without prices. I'm not
going to waste my money making a bunch of long distance calls asking
people their prices. If you want to sell to me be up front and
informative in the ad. If you are too wishy-washy to set a price then
take it to the auction. I have never in my life responded to an ad
saying "make offer". You wouldn't like my offer anyway since it would
probably be $1... I buy a lot of stuff but only from those that are up
front. If I suspect game playing I'm gone. Life is too short and there
too many good straight sellers out there to deal with to justify
dealing with game players...
I have mostly been pretty lucky dealing with folks but I'm pretty
careful about who I get in a vehicle with to go "see" something. Many
years ago my father and I went with an employee of a local junk yard
to see an IH Scout he was selling. When we got to the house he was
surprised to see his boss's pickup sitting in the drive. He pointed us
toward the Scout and he headed to the house. A few loud statements
later his boss came charging out of the house to his truck still
fastening his clothes. We had to ride back to our vehicle with a very
large fuming guy that I thought at times might rip the entire steering
column out of the truck in a fit of rage. Not on my list of situations
I like being in.
:-)


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