[TheForge] Vise Prices

[Steve Smith]

I think the real lesson here is to sell on Ebay.

Steve Smith


Dann Johnson wrote:
> 
> RE: 6 inch leg vices
> 
> Bidding on this recent  vise offered on eBAY topped out at $620 for this 
> leg vice and it had not reached the reserve.
> 
> This one was an 8 inch, 200 pound leg vise, but  one of the guys on the 
> thread below  apparently think that they  often go  over $500.
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6100536017
> 
> http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/archive/get.phtml?message_id=134098&submit_thread=1 
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> 
> I think of the hours that I have spent  rebuilding some  distressed 
> damaged leg vises... perhaps they should have been called   "vise 
> kits".     I don't think that you will have much trouble selling a 
> "mint" 6 inch vise for $150.   Like  quality new anvils,  it  seems to 
> me that new leg vices  go $600 plus .
> 
> Dann Johnson
> 
> At 06:40 PM 6/13/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> schade at acegroup.cc wrote:
>>
>>> I am a sucker at an auction for a $20 post/leg vise
>>> of any size and almost any condition. That's why I have a dozen
>>> in various states of repair in my shop and shed.
>>
>>
>> I am the same.  Graduated from anvil hoarding to post vise hoarding
>>
>>> I keep thinking
>>> that eventually they will all be worth $100+.
>>
>> They are all worth $100 plus right now to someone out there, just got 
>> to find them.  Seems they all seem to go in that range at a minimum on 
>> Ebay, though, so if you really want the money for them....
>>
>>> Most buyers are hobbyists and want to steal everything.
>>
>>
>> Have you paid new list price for every tool you ever wanted?    Damn 
>> it must be nice.  I have to balance the funds I have available vs my 
>> wants/needs and hope for the occasional great buy.    If I was in the 
>> business, I could work out a cost benefit analysis.  Being a hobbiest, 
>> I just have to determine what I am willing to piss down the drain for 
>> my own amusement.   Most often that means biding my time until I find 
>> a seller that has no idea what it is  worth, or more often finding a 
>> seller that is tired of loading  a heavy chunk of iron on the trailer, 
>> unloading it at home, dragging it into a storage room, then dragging 
>> it back out again loading it back on the trailer and trying to sell it 
>> on another the day with the prospect of repeating the process all over 
>> again ......and again.   Often, that is exactly my conversation on the 
>> last day of any swap meet. It is amazing how often the seller finds 
>> middle ground with me.   As a hobbiest, you can't "steal" it if the 
>> buyer isn't willing.
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