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Missed This One!
« on: July 10, 2019, 01:37:48 pm »
It was listed for $10.00 in a regional buy-and-sell paper, and I got to the seller first, but he didn't want to mail it....

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Re: Missed This One!
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2019, 02:35:42 pm »
Well if it was regional, did you offer to pop over and pick it up?
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Re: Missed This One!
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2019, 07:29:29 pm »
I had one for awhile, was losing it's lacquer and I was NOT interested in re-polishing  :D  sold it on eBay and sent it to Australia. BUT for $10 I would definitely add one back to the collection  :o
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Re: Missed This One!
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2019, 09:27:27 pm »
Quote from: Stoker on July 10, 2019, 02:35:42 pm
Well if it was regional, did you offer to pop over and pick it up?

We're talking three hours' drive each way. "Regional" is not "local", alas!
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Re: Missed This One!
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2019, 08:35:58 pm »
Hm. The $10.00 roller was sold and has re-appeared elsewhere, now with a $425.00 price tag!

Guess this is free enterprise at its finest....
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Re: Missed This One!
« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2019, 08:41:52 pm »
Quote from: Hero on July 16, 2019, 08:35:58 pm
Hm. The $10.00 roller was sold and has re-appeared elsewhere, now with a $425.00 price tag!

Guess this is free enterprise at its finest....

Haha will likely only get about 1/3 of that price
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Re: Missed This One!
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2019, 09:36:41 am »
Quote from: Hero on July 10, 2019, 09:27:27 pm
Quote from: Stoker on July 10, 2019, 02:35:42 pm
Well if it was regional, did you offer to pop over and pick it up?

We're talking three hours' drive each way. "Regional" is not "local", alas!

Three hour drive ain't that bad. Heck it's four hours (about 200 miles) from where I live to anything that you could call a city. Of course in a situation like that, the fuel costs must be added to the purchase price, just like shipping, so it could tip the balance against.
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« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2019, 10:05:55 am »
And not just fuel. I'd have to go through Toronto and right into the Niagara Peninsula. Way too crowded, way too busy. I grew up in that mess, and I have never returned.
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« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2019, 10:22:06 am »
Quote from: Hero on July 17, 2019, 10:05:55 am
And not just fuel. I'd have to go through Toronto and right into the Niagara Peninsula. Way too crowded, way too busy. I grew up in that mess, and I have never returned.

Now that part I understand COMPLETELY!!!
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Re: Missed This One!
« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2019, 11:16:43 am »
I knew I could get through to you. I just had to find the right wavelength.
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« Reply #10 on: July 17, 2019, 12:55:34 pm »
Yep, that reasoning touched a chord alright. Beginning of last month I had to attend a family thing over in the S. Bay Area where I grew up, but hadn't visited in perhaps a dozen years, I can't drive over there anymore! It's frightening and totally unsafe ... those people are full on crazy!!!
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Re: Missed This One!
« Reply #11 on: July 17, 2019, 05:27:22 pm »
I sit quietly on my farm, and if people won't mail things to me I no longer go chasing after them.
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