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Did I read the article right? He low-balled the guy that brought it into his store, said it wasn’t worth anything other than for parts, and now is listing it on eBay for $50,000?
PZ : yes, that’s the way I read it too, but he said he took it home or to his work bench & then made those discoveries. In otherwords he is saying he thought it was junk at first, too, then got to probing into it & thought it may be some thing more valuable. I think that could happen to a lot of us sometimes !
Thanks,
When I first read the email, I too had thoughts of maybe he low balled the guy, but, not knowing this shop owner, I give him the benefit of the doubt, especially since it seems his shop, based on his discription, deals more in the smaller scales. I also don’t believe he thinks the piece is worth $50,000 but just listed it at that amount to get some attention (it worked). According to what I was told on another forum, it seems to be a common practice for dealers to list “high priced” items in eBay when eBay runs their $0.10 listing sale (any listing no matter what the price can be listed for a cost of $0.10) to generate some interest .