If you find a great deal do you buy it? Or do you just talk about buying it and then not follow thru?
Last year a guy I know hired me to haul a 52 Ford sedan home from out East. He has a 52 and someone stole his front clip off the car. This is to be a parts car for his lost front end. So I haul the car to a friend of his place so he can strip it. This was last September. About a month ago he has me haul the car to his house because working out at his friends is too difficult. Thursday he calls and says he has all the parts off the car and can I take it to the recyclers for him. I go pick up the car and it still has the drive train in it. I ask him and he says he's done with the car, fed up and just want's it gone (neibours are giving his mother a hard time about the rusty car).
I figure someone might want a flat 8 complete, shed stored, turns over, still has oil in it. So I list it for $50, come and get it. Pay scrap value for the car and $50 and it's all yours. Want it delivered, we can work that out too.
I list it on Kijiji and get 4 responses right away. First guy can't do anything about it till Monday. I tell him first come takes it away. He says he will call back Monday. Second guy says he will be here Saturday morning with his sons to pull the motor. No show, no call either. Third guy asks what it I haul the car away. I tell him scrap price + $50....$300 total takes it away (car weighs about 3000 lbs. now) Don't hear back. Fourth guy is disappointed that someone is coming in the am to get it. But he will call when he gets off work just in case. I tell him great, the other guy might not take it. He doesn't call back. He was so insistent that he wanted it. I thought he would call.
So I'm sitting here waiting for #4 to call (actually came in to get a drink) and I go to Ebay to see if there are any flat 8 Fords listed and there are 4 that are like mine. $520 (4 bids), $700 (no bids), $750 (no bids) and $1200 (no bids).
I didn't know it was worth that much.
If these guys knew what a flathead was worth why wouldn't any of them (except for #1) at least follow thru and take a look at it? Do people feel obligated to contact you just because they read your ad? Idiots
I pulled the ad and tomorrow I'm pulling the motor and trans. Should I pull the diff too?
