At a local auction I saw a pallet with a rotary phase converter and two
boxes of misc woodworking equipment. The winning bid was over $500 and
I figured he was after the phase converter so I dickered with him and
bought the two boxes for $70.00. As he was picking up the phase
converter and I was getting the boxes loaded into my truck another guy
asked if I would sell the jointer knives that went with the Oliver 13"
jointer that he bought. Sure I said what will you give me? We settled
on $60.00 so for $10.00 I was left with the following stuff: 3 King
water stones, 600, 1200 and 6000. all new in boxes, a two cherries
burnisher and several scrapers, three machinst vices, one of which was
a cross slide and one that pivoted, several packages of sandpaper, two
Organizers full of misc hardware and at the bottom of the box a
BridgeCity tool works 24" straight edge. I believe I got my monies
worth one any one item. Best thing was all three of us left the
auction happy.
In article <[email protected]>,
brandom11 <[email protected]> wrote:
>At a local auction I saw a pallet with a rotary phase converter and two
>boxes of misc woodworking equipment. The winning bid was over $500 and
>I figured he was after the phase converter so I dickered with him and
>bought the two boxes for $70.00. As he was picking up the phase
>converter and I was getting the boxes loaded into my truck another guy
>asked if I would sell the jointer knives that went with the Oliver 13"
>jointer that he bought. Sure I said what will you give me? We settled
>on $60.00 so for $10.00 I was left with the following stuff: 3 King
>water stones, 600, 1200 and 6000. all new in boxes, a two cherries
>burnisher and several scrapers, three machinst vices, one of which was
>a cross slide and one that pivoted, several packages of sandpaper, two
>Organizers full of misc hardware and at the bottom of the box a
>BridgeCity tool works 24" straight edge. I believe I got my monies
>worth one any one item. Best thing was all three of us left the
>auction happy.
>
For it to be a *real* gloat, you needed to sell the knives for $75.
But this is definitely a 'large, industrial strength' neener.
And, as such, it does rate a "you suc ". <*grin*>
Congrats. particularly as regards the last line of your post. Well done!
On 5 Jun 2006 23:39:36 -0700, "brandom11" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>At a local auction I saw a pallet with a rotary phase converter and two
>boxes of misc woodworking equipment. The winning bid was over $500 and
>I figured he was after the phase converter so I dickered with him and
>bought the two boxes for $70.00.
Nice when it happens. Sometimes it backfires. My wife wanted some
sewing material and the bid went much higher than I'd have thought. I
didn't embarass her though. What did turn my crank afterwards though
was the fact that she then *gave* the basket [she was interested only
in the contents], before I got there, to the woman who had been
bidding for it; the reason the bid went so high. From now on I do the
bidding.
"brandom11" <[email protected]> writes:
>Best thing was all three of us left the
> auction happy.
Verily. Thou sucketh.
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