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    The other reason I have changed this to a classified ad is that I do not want to freight the item. It is too heavy for post and the amount of time to pack it properly is not something I have available at the moment.
    I would probably have taken the $200 if I knew that it was going to be collected and I wouldn't have to muck around with freight.
    We will see what is offered now that it is local pickup only.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jekyll and Hyde View Post
    Yep - exactly... I recently watched the end of an auction for a bench with a dawn vise on it, and much of the action came from two guys, with one or two extras who put in increasingly larger bids (not just auto bids) over the days, trying to get the lead. But in the last hour or two, it was only two bidders playing the game. The stupidity of it was, that if either of them had not bid for the last 2 hours, right up until the last 5 seconds, they would have got the damn thing for less than half the price the winner ended up paying...
    It's a fairly frequent occurence. Remember the 5,600 dollar Waldown drill.
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    If I really want something I'll wait till 5 or less seconds from the end but sometimes I will place a bid early and if someone wants it more, they can have it. Picked up a pair of new Jap Eron 3" vee blocks this morning for $19.99. No other bidders. I placed my bid 3 hours before the end. Happens now and again, maybe no one else looked at them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by welder View Post
    Here is a little shaper in Victoria.

    Milling machine shaper Metal | eBay
    Does anyone have any thoughts on the origin of this little beast? I can't make much out in the photos, other than the table looks like it may be homemade, and a few other bits kind of look like they might have scavenged from elsewhere... Could be wrong though, often am!

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    Quote Originally Posted by racer123 View Post
    We will see what is offered now that it is local pickup only.
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    not as much compared to if you offered freight...

    You have just reduced your selling audience to sweet bugger all....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anorak Bob View Post
    It's a fairly frequent occurence. Remember the 5,600 dollar Waldown drill.
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    BT
    Yes, I've seen it happen a bit, but I was just amazed at how this particular auction played out with such stupidity. Not so often only two guys continually increase their max bid to end up so much higher than they start - if I remember correctly, one of them was leading the bidding for about the first 3 or 4 days (the other only appeared in the last day or two), and his original max bid was about a fifth of what the bench went for in the end.

    Often it just seems to be a complete rabble of random bidders trying to one-up the price that is there for them to see....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anorak Bob View Post

    Picked up a pair of new Jap Eron 3" vee blocks this morning for $19.99. No other bidders. I placed my bid 3 hours before the end. Happens now and again, maybe no one else looked at them.

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    He sold three sets of them. I was going to bid but got sidetracked and managed to miss all three

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ueee View Post
    He sold three sets of them. I was going to bid but got sidetracked and managed to miss all three

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    Dont worry, he seems to have plenty, I bought some off him on 3/3/2010
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    Quote Originally Posted by racer123 View Post
    The other reason I have changed this to a classified ad is that I do not want to freight the item. It is too heavy for post and the amount of time to pack it properly is not something I have available at the moment.
    I would probably have taken the $200 if I knew that it was going to be collected and I wouldn't have to muck around with freight.
    We will see what is offered now that it is local pickup only.
    Dave
    So basically you've doubled the price and restricted potential purchasers to those who can get to your place and collect it. How is this going to increase your chances of selling it?

    As I've said, I wasn't in the market because I don't have any desire to buy a 30 taper milling head, but a lot of other people with mills but not close to you might. None of them can bid. IMO you'd be a lot better off figuring the freight to Perth, adding that to the starting price (plus packing etc) and advertise it including freight to anywhere on the big island. Tasmania is always more expensive (

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    Quote Originally Posted by xXvapourXx View Post
    I won that lathe... it is awesome! I have started a new thread on the site asking for anyone who might know anything about manuals and so on. I can't believe that the thing has no sort of identifying plate giving manufacture date (

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    Lol - that's a new one! Here's the one he had up before:

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    Here's 4 douglas shapers with vises

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    BETTER TO HAVE TOOLS YOU DON'T NEED THAN TO NEED TOOLS YOU DON'T HAVE

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    Here's 4 Douglas shapers with vices on offer.
    Probably not the cheapest you could get but sounds like they come with the lot.
    If they were in Melbourne I would already have made an offer on one of them but the good stuff is always in Sydney

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    He's also got a Hercus O Mill with the lot too by the sound of it.

    No affiliation with seller.

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    And here's a lathe that would leave a wet spot in your undies.
    This has the potential to be one heck of a bargain for someone, I just wish I had somwhere to put it.

    HARRISON CENTRE LATHE for TURNING MACHINING etc | eBay

    I've gotta not look at ebay anymore.

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