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   jazzdogg | Nov 24, 2003 02:51am | #1

   They don't need a lunch room - you can eat off of the floors!

   Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right.
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   DavidxDoud | Nov 24, 2003 03:05am | #2

   gotta wonder if the guy ever made anything....

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   ron61 | Nov 24, 2003 03:31am | #3

   Gosh what a shop full of nice tools - I wonder why? Rich guy get his finger in a saw or what????

   Who Ever Has The Biggest Pile Of Tools When You Die Wins

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   DavidxDoud | Nov 24, 2003 04:56am | #4

   I wonder why?

   just speculation,  I know people whose passion is their shop,  rather than the objects that the shop would allow them to make - the clean obsession,  the lack of stock,  the admission "Alot of these tools are virtually new and hardly used at all" suggest the owner might fall in this catagory...

   if I had 'a large motor coach',  I'd trade him in a heartbeat...

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   GregB126 | Nov 24, 2003 05:18am | #5

   Hoax maybe?  Perhaps a little careless policing his shirt collar for lipstick?  What if the offering is by his ill-humoured wife and he won't find out about it until the moving trucks arrive?

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   EdHarrison | Nov 25, 2003 03:42am | #7

   Do you think all that stuff is worth 45 G's? I don't think its even close. Heck, it's "used" now, even if it's not used. I smell the presence of big time debt. Everything from the dumping as a lump on e-bay, the unused cond., and the offer to trade for a large motor coach (which of course can be refinanced like real estate). My guess is it is someone who thought he wanted to open a business because he knew someone who did the same thing, got a small bus. loan, bought all the stuff, then decided it wasn't really what he wanted to do. Could be wrong, just a guess. Kind of fun to speculate. Wish my shop was half as clean.

   ......I can get a used school bus for $5000 I'll trade,... :>)

   Ed

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   DavidxDoud | Nov 25, 2003 04:48am | #9

   Do you think all that stuff is worth 45 G's?

   I think you would be hard pressed to assemble that collection  for that amount of money - - whether it's 'worth'  it would depend - if you had the cash and wanted shop equipment,  it'd be a good value - if you have to borrow the money  planning to pay it back using the shop,  I'd suggest a different strategy - be a fast way to end up in the condition you speculate this guy might be in  - -

   would a financial institution consider a 'large motor coach' better collateral than this equipment? - - boggles my mind  - 

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   ian | Nov 25, 2003 02:46pm | #13

   The way I'm doing the maths, if everyone who has contributed so far to this thread put up $5K it'd go along way to meeting the starting bid !

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   IMERC | Nov 25, 2003 08:40pm | #15

   He may be packing it in and retiring.

   The shop was cleaned up for the photo shoot. 

   Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....

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   jimmyk | Nov 25, 2003 05:26am | #10

   The free packaging and delivery wouldn't be cheap.

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   EdHarrison | Nov 25, 2003 05:35am | #11

   Good point. Very good point. Makes the whole situation even weirder. Well good luck to the guy, or gal, whatever the situation is.

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   BG | Nov 25, 2003 03:42pm | #14

   David,

   No planes..that is why he is probably quiting the hobby.  I'd jump on the deal....but I want to hold out for Two Cherry" chisles.....lol

   no tax?

   Edited 11/25/2003 7:42:40 AM ET by BG

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   derekb | Nov 24, 2003 09:24pm | #6

   could I borrow $50,000 please

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   DavidxDoud | Nov 25, 2003 04:37am | #8

   could I borrow $50,000 please

   since you asked politely...

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   koikid | Nov 25, 2003 06:19am | #12

   Ahh Yes I was going to make a comment about this yesterday on here but didn't find time.  This almost seems topical of the jpg's I see posted on the net...they havethis really nice shop and nice tools....Buuuuut there is not a speck of dust in that shop I could see!   I'm a good house/ shop keeper but you could do surgery on this shop floor and any of the benches.   I thought the price was a little steep also but I would trade a motor coach for it in a heart beat if I had one!  Just wonder how many sq. ft this shop is? And you would sure have to have a lot of free space to have it all off loaded in 8 hours.  I think I would want to be there and supervise or do the packing also, but don't worry I won't be getting it guy's so it's all up to you Happy Bidding!

   Just think what your wife would say bringing all that home at once, be kind of hard to hide!