[SEL] Didn't want to sell

[Bob Willman]

	There was a fellow who came to almost every gun show back in the
60's and had on display 2 1875 Remington revolvers in a glass case. He did
not want to sell them but enjoyed having them for display. At one show
someone was admiring the revolvers and asked if they were for sale, to which
he replied "no". The gentleman asked him to put a price on them and he kept
him at bay for quite a while, but the admirer persisted. Finally the owner
figured he would put an end to the whole procedure and said OK, $1200.00. At
that point the admirer pulled his hand out of his pocket, peeled off 12 $100
bills, laid them on the table and walked off with the revolvers. Don't put a
price on something you do not want to sell.


Bob Willman
Bowling Green, Ohio
The Eagle's Anvil
WB8NQW

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of Best, George
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 10:39 AM
To: The SEL email discussion list
Subject: [SEL] Didn't want to sell

Years ago there were a couple of tractor collectors that I knew.  The one
collector had some tractors that today would be very expensive ones to buy
and were still pretty valuable when this story took place.

The second collector asked the first one if he'd sell him a couple of the
tractors.

The first collector didn't really want to sell so he said, "Sure, I'll sell
them for $xx,xxxx!" which was a lot more than he thought anyone would pay.

To his amazement, the second collector whipped out his checkbook and bought
them!

I was hoping that $20k was outrageous enough that even with the Royster oil
fortune, you wouldn't take me up on my offer ;-)

So here's a question for the group to answer:

Have you ever offered something you didn't want to sell for a very high
price and had the buyer accept your price?

George

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of Mike Royster
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 7:13 PM
To: The SEL email discussion list
Subject: Re: [SEL] Aermotor was My Homepage

It's like that old joke, now that we know it's for sale, we are just
haggling about the price!!!!

Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Best, George" <George_Best at adp.com>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:35 PM
Subject: [SEL] Aermotor was My Homepage


> Sure Mike!
>
> Give me $20k for it and I'll deliver it to Portland IN for you ;-)


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