Just received this email after explaining that we're a group. He also explained he had an offer on the lot, I challenged him that it's probably a scrapper, so I bet he tried to low-ball him:
"You are absolutely correct he is a scrapper.. He upped his price yesterday which is funny as I said I just had a bunch of emails from others.
I would rather you guys have it and put it to good use.
I will following[sic] and confirm a few things but as far as I am concerned your group can have them."
-->Lets try to not all pester this guy now that he knows we're a group, lol.
I replied:
"It's really fantastic news. Thank you.
I'll let everyone know.
Yeah, you don't have this hobby long before you realize that you're constantly competing with every scrapper in the city.
Let me know what you need to know from us and I'll be sure to get back to you quickly.
When you know when we can coordinate pickup next week it would be helpful for me to have a date and time sooner rather than later. We're going to coordinate a bunch of pickups, might organize a picker truck or something if we can // if we need it. Either way, the more time we have to get organized the better.".
John, Looks like we were right, scrappers are already coming out of the woodwork for this
I figure we can coordinate buying all this maybe? (All the solid stock, and a little bit of tube)
- 3.75" OD x " ID x 33.875"long, 16 bars
- 4" OD x 14"long, 39 bars
- 4" OD x 9"long, 3 bars
- 4" OD x 15"long, 1 bars
- 5.125" OD x 3" ID x 15.125"long, 7 bars
- 6.75" OD x 52"long, 6 bars
That's ~6 pallets, $300 -- Approx $60 each (5 people)? (probably going to fluctuate, some of these items are like, 1 or two bars, so I assume the pallets are mixed together a bit...)
And we can take the time to divvy these up so we all get the same stuff. The [6.75" OD x 52" 6 bars] and the [4" OD x 15"long, 1 bars ] we can cut in half too or maybe skip the 6.75" one?
After cutting some of the longer stuff down to more manageable sizes it would be something like:
- 3.75" OD x " ID x 16" long, 32 bars == ~6 Each
- 4" OD x 14"long, 39 bars == ~8 each
- 4" OD x 9"long, 5 bars == 1 each
- 5.125" OD x 3" ID x 15.125"long, 7 bars == ~ 1 each
- 6.75" OD x 26 "long, 12 bars == ~2 each
Plus the cost of a few saw blades (Powered hacksaw, I don't mind cutting if we cover the cost of blades and someone gives me a hand.) I also don't mind storing stock (covered outside) for
@Alexander and
@DPittman.
Call it $75 each?
That sound good to everyone? I'm just making this up as we go, so open to ideas. Please review the original stock list vs what I added up there, if someone wants anything else we can rework this. We have till next week to get this sorted out.
If the above makes sense we will need ~3 trucks on pickup day. Based on my emails with him, I suspect it will be middle of the week, during "office hours"
--> Anyone have a flatbed and a forklift we could use? lol
JW
