[SEL] Didn't want to sell

[Dave Ernst]

At a hardware store parking lot in SoCal I once had a guy that wanted to 
swap his new cadillac for my 1930 model A pickup.....I'm still driving the 
pickup, dents and all.
Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Herreid" <bigtime64 at hotmail.com>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Didn't want to sell


>
> Good thread George,
>
> I guess this would qualify as an offer to buy.
>
> At our home show a a few years back a "wannabe collector" came around 
> asking everyone showing if they had any engines for sale and announced he 
> had $2000 to spend do you think he could find anything to buy for that. 
> You know, everyone attending a show asks where can I buy one.  Most were 
> polite and said no and did not take him seriously.  Eventually one of the 
> old timers said "Sure that one there is for sale for $1000".  And sold him 
> a relatively common running engine for what most would consider valued at 
> 1/3 of that price.
>
> The rest of the story is that after that he became hooked and became a 
> member of the club and continued buying engines everywhere they could be 
> found and currently has a collection most would envy.  Some were bought at 
> above market value and some below.  Goes to show you that the value is 
> whatever someone is willing to pay for it on that particular day.
>
> Ed Herreid
>
> BTW George,  What is the status of that New Holland engine you were 
> remorsing about buying a while back.  > Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 
> 09:38:47 -0600> From: George_Best at adp.com> To: 
> sel at lists.stationary-engine.com> 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-----> 
> From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com> 
> [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 ;-)> > > This 
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