Dan Dubeau
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Nice lathe (qcgb) at a good price. Finally a chip pan design that's easy to clean too. Hope you snag it David, but the bait and switch would have me walk just on principal.
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Myford Super 7 Victoria BC $600
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I was prepared to walk too but I think the reality is that it's widow selling her husband's tools so she had zero idea of price.
$600 was completely bonkers. That's less than a new mini-lathe.
$1000 was still way below market. Especially here.
Dan Dubeau
Ultra Member
If it's a Widow situation that softens my response a lot. If it was just some goober that didn't do market research before hand, and was trying to jack me around, I wouldn't waste any more time chasing moving goalposts.
Totally, I checked the sellers FB profile and the background in the pics leads me to believe their spouse was an avid shop fellow.
Tom Kitta
Ultra Member
Maybe she has more stuff for sale?! Buy all you can.
Her FB profile has her beside a white Jag.
You can see the same car in the background here with what looks like the post for a lift.
I picked it up tonight. The seller was a very friendly gent, former Brit car mechanic. He said he never used the lathe but his friend did and liked it.
Final price was $1300.
Doggggboy
Ultra Member
It's probably smaller than the couch, if something has to go.
Just sayin...
TorontoBuilder
Ultra Member
I dont mind uneducated widows adjusting prices higher when people let them know they've made a mistake.. I dislike those who'd take advantage.I dislike and disrespect sellers who do that, 600 to 1000 to 1300. What happened??
I wouldn't touch that thing unless it comes with that furnace filter. Total waste of money otherwise!!!!!!!
I hate though sellers who deliberately post a machine for $200 to gain a lot of initial interested and then jack the price up to 2500.
TorontoBuilder
Ultra Member
That is generally my experience, by being polite, fair and patient you often beat out the predatory and pushy people, when it comes to dealing with widows at any rate
A good outcome in this case given its a widow, however in a way we're part of the problem here of generating excessive buzz for a listing. For everyone of us there are 10 lurkers and it increase noise substantially. I had that happen on a buy once. Got posted on PM (where posting someone else s ad is against the rules (laxly enforced) because of this) and the seller thought he had the hot item with six buyers chasing it. I know three them were from the states and afterward revealed themselve and said they were quite unlikely to make the drive.... but meanwhile the noise affected my bargaining position.
I have to believe that was a bone head mistake vs malicious strategy. It got attention but the move creates resentment....doubt it was intentional, then again who knows? Still frustrating at the time wasted, part of game i guess.
Run the serial number and figure out the age of that Myford. My eye was drawn to the Apron, which is not the power cross feed apron, but is a fair bit later production date than the machine I have.
Have a look here:
DavidR8's shop shenanigans
Quick question David. Does your bucket head have a big O-ring where it fits onto the bucket? Mine does not. It might simply be missing! Just checked and mine does not have any type of sealing ring. In fact the bucket is loose enough to be spun around even when latched on. That said I expect...
Ooof!Have a look here:
DavidR8's shop shenanigans
Quick question David. Does your bucket head have a big O-ring where it fits onto the bucket? Mine does not. It might simply be missing! Just checked and mine does not have any type of sealing ring. In fact the bucket is loose enough to be spun around even when latched on. That said I expect...canadianhobbymetalworkers.com
Still, likely not a bad buy even for a clone! Not the screaming deal a real Myford would be, but still....
One thing that may be worth doing is perusing the Lathes.co.uk site's Myford Clones page, and see if you have yet another to add to the documented pile.
I’ve sent a bunch of pics to Tony and he’s not seen one like it. He wants a good shot of the full machine so I’ll shoot one tomorrow now that it’s cleaned up.