Free lathe if you pick up

I know.....Ive got 3 lathes for sale, including 2 OmniTurn CNCs..both in good operating shape..and I cant sell either of them either. And I just brought home an absolutely georgious Lancer lathe.

Guy owned it..wanted to tune it up, disassmbled it totally..reground everything, then died.

Its been in his buddies shop for at least 10 yrs that I know of..and he is shutting down and moving to Idaho. So is cleaning out his very complete machine shop.

Ive got to go over soon and pick up the Hobart gasoline powered welder that came off a Liberty Ship....blink blink..but need to get some tires for it first. Has a really cool Brass radiator cover that proudly proclaims Hobart Brothers. He claims it runs and well..but hasnt been run in about 10 yrs..came off his ranch.

And Ive not had any..any work for 2 weeks. Being self employed in California in the machine business...really really sucks.

Ive got scads of Stuff, very good Stuff...that simply wont sell. Everyone Ive presented it to..gulps, grimaces, checks their wallets and then gets a very long face and turns down the sale.

Idaho is starting to sound better and better every day.

Gunner

Try lowering the asking prices and everything will sell very quickly.

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Hell.thats easy and nearly free to set up 3ph using a doit yourself converter.

Gunner

When I put in OBO and mentions Im not firm on the price..and no one responds....shrug

Now Im sure I could sell an OmniTurn for $100. Or even $1000...but it would be criminally stupid to do so.

Gunner

You can sell the OmniTurn for $4,000, and it would be criminally stupid not to do so.

Is that an offer?

Gunner

You have two problems. 1. Your prices are too high 2. You already posted that your creditors couldn't lay claims to any of your machinery because you had a bill of sale to prove that you'd sold everything to your father 2 years ago. Now it's for sale again? Please. Who'd want to be involved in your soap opera?

Anybody who's read this newsgroup, and buys stuff off you anyway, risks being accused of bankruptcy fraud.

Not to Idaho it isn't!

Wayne

(Hey, it sure sounded like an offer to me!)

Thank you, Sir! Will that be Cash or Check?

(Psst! Gunner! Remeber that 'pencil it out' comment? "Here, hold my Diet Dr. Pepper and Watch This...")

And don't forget, Super Special Delivery is available, transported cross country with the greatest of care in a dedicated fully-stocked service truck, and setup in your shop by a Factory Trained OmniTurn Technician and his Able Assistant who is a Journeyman Electrician...

Okay, let's knock this crap off berfore they have to chisel the fake Sincere Smile off my face. It hurts grinning that wide.

Iggy, there's a huge difference between what it's worth and what you can get in cold cash right now. At a reasonable sales price, all you are going to draw is a bunch of tire-kickers looking to gauge how desperate you are before they bring out the lowball offer.

Even if it's pristine, fully tooled and priced below cost to move... Yeah? So are the other 1,000 units just like it sitting idle in various machine shops around the country. Nobody has work. But if you sell off all your tools (for cheap or for scrap) you don't have a machine shop anymore, you have a vacant industrial unit...

And when you have to go back out and buy again, you have to pay a lot more, plus interest. Buy High Sell Low doesn't work for long.

It's truly a vicious circle, and until we drive the Dems out of Washington (by force if necessary) who are spending "Other Peoples' Money" and speeding us to national bankruptcy as fast as they possibly can, and get back to the Business Of Fixing and Growing The Economy, I don't see an end in sight.

Dairy Farmers. They can't sell the milk and butter at any price, because the market is saturated - nobody is eating. But the farmer still has to buy feed for the cow and themselves, and some are desperate enough to sell the Cow to the Butcher to keep alive. Problem is, once you've gotten desperate enough to sell the cow you can produce no more milk and butter to sell.

You are effectively out of the dairy business unless you can get credit (HA!) to buy another cow when the economy picks up.

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When Gunner mentioned them the first time, I looked on ebay and found a few Omniturns sold for $5-6k.

Hence, selling one for $4k should be straightforward, hence my suggestion of $4k.

This would not be Gunner's last lathe.

If I remember right, Gunner got them for free. I hope that I am not wrong. Getting stuff for free and selling for low prices is a good business.

OK, I did not know that butchers keep cows alive.

While this is true, in reality, used equipment market is now thriving, at prices that are 60% of what prevailed 2 years ago.