For Sale: Carrier rare items soon on Ebay.

[Radek]

I am interesting too.

[Jim Burrill]

I would like to put dibs on the pair of ice scrappers.
Please advise price and postage to Pensylvania when you are ready to sell them.

[RichardT10829]

Jim... he is putting them on eBay then informing folk on forums so they can bid on them.

[Jim Burrill]

Ahhhh. Thanks Richard. I miss read it. Thought offered here on MLU, then to eBay second.

Will set up a search there and wait for it.

[patrick4264]

Good evening Gentlemen,I've read Your messages with a Great attention,and you are right when you mention the term NOS...
I have effectively cleaned,sandblasted and repainted some of these parts but before that they were NOS...I apologize..So they are not NOS otherwise mentioned.
But the work on these parts was done very precisely and with Great attention.
So,to be exact here are the really untouched parts of this first list soon on E'Bay....
1: Oil Cooler and fittings
2: Dashboard for MKII* Universal.
3: Steering Wheel.
the other parts were Nos or In like new condition but I S/B and paint them because of the storage dirt or very light rust...
You'll judge when the parts will be on bidding,pictures will help you to make Your own opinion about the condition of the parts.
I add on this first list:
A pair of Canadian headlight CO1UC-13001.One headlight with the complete B/O cap 13008 and one with the glass 13060
S/B and newly painted in O.D
Reflectors are 1/3 shiny silver and 2/3 black
With supports 13388 and 13389,springs washers and nuts
The pair of headlights are in excellent near new condition....Lacking the bulbs in one of them and the gaskets 13066 are long dry and gone.
I wish you all a good evening....And please forgive me for my poor quality English.

[RichardT10829]

Patrick, why not list the items on here with a price that you want, that way you can avoid eBay fee's and commission fees ? More in your pocket at the end of the day, whilst helping fellow carrier owners out ?

[Robert Bergeron]

Of course , posting items for sale on MLU at a set asking price instead of Ebay would help out some of the fellows contributing to the sport.

[chris vickery]

To each his own as Richard posted.
I have offered items for sale myself with best intentions to help others with the hobby. It is an admiral trait although on the other hand I have paid dear prices from many who offered up no deal to get the bits that I needed.
I suppose over time a fellow becomes jaded and it becomes a matter of dollars over helping out others. Maybe once you have been beaten down, ripped off or otherwise chiselled, the best and easiest option is eBay. Let the market dictate the value and be done with it. We do live in a fair market society where the almighty dollar reigns. I am sure nobody gave Patrick any deals and his restoration efforts were all on his own back and out of his pocket.
I remember offering up a carrrier speedo drive a few years ago at a swap for $15 on my table. NOS in the box. One guy came by my table several times trying to beat me to $10. Eventually I pulled the item off the table and told him it sold. He was furious...
I put it up on eBay out of spite and if I remember correctly it sold for $75.
Suppose a case of demand but I certainly never lost sleep over it. The market or zealous persons set the price.
We all have to pay for our own hobby...

[jdmcm]

Well said Chris. I have had the equally frustrating experience of being hounded for parts, which I explain are not easy to access, and selling them is not my full time job, once I relent and finally dig up these gems from my stores only to be informed that the price we agreed before the hunt began was too high, or should have included shipping...or they already found a similar part cheaper and would I match the other sellers price...so I can understand why Ebay gets the nod once in awhile...but dangling the parts in front of our noses to pump up the Ebay sales seems a touch crass

[rob love]

As I am sure Donald Trump would tell you, Capitalism is what makes the free world great.

To each is own.....I am sure Patrick paid fair dollar for the items from wherever he got them from, and as long as a seller represents his wares honestly on ebay, then it really falls onto the buyers. It will be interesting to see if Patrick starts them at 99¢ and lets the market decide, or if he starts with a high price. Quite frankly, based on what I have seen carrier stuff sell for on ebay over the past few years, I think he would be more than safe starting at the 99¢.

That said, I am careful about selling parts to those who in turn just dump them onto ebay. I have bought off ebay many many times, but have yet to sell a single thing on there. Far easier to toss them on this site at a fair price, and after the feeding frenzy is over, know that I have made a few people happy, and that one day they might return the favor.

I have been watching ebay for Patrick's wares but cannot find them. Does anybody have a link?