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Title: Early Proto
Post by: eddie hudson on August 19, 2011, 01:56:05 PM

Here's another early Proto catalog.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1950s-Proto-Tools-Trade-Catalog-Canada-69-pgs-/260838426372?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cbb2e8704

Title: Re: Early Proto
Post by: lbgradwell on August 19, 2011, 07:56:11 PM

This one's already available in PDF...

Title: Re: Early Proto
Post by: eddie hudson on August 26, 2011, 06:04:51 PM

He couldn't sell it for $29.99 so he jacked up the price to $39.99. Why do people do things like this?

Title: Re: Early Proto
Post by: skipskip on August 27, 2011, 03:14:24 AM

cuz it works... sometimes


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Title: Re: Early Proto
Post by: eddie hudson on August 27, 2011, 08:57:43 AM

Quote from: skipskip on August 27, 2011, 03:14:24 AM

cuz it works... sometimes


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Do you want to make a bet?

If it sells, then Papaw will send you his most prized Alligator wrench. if not he sends it to me. (insert big grin smiley if they worked)

Title: Re: Early Proto
Post by: Papaw on August 27, 2011, 06:21:39 PM

No bet here. I probably won't work, but back when I was in the motorcycle business, sometimes when a unit wouldn't sell, I'd put it back in the warehouse for a month or so, then bring it back out, often it would sell right away, some times at a higher price!

Title: Re: Early Proto
Post by: rusty on August 27, 2011, 06:40:26 PM

I think sometimes it seems to work on epay because people don't leave stuff listed long enough to make it into google. Relisting it also means it's listed longer. A fair number of folks find ebay stuff via google....

>put it back in the warehouse for a month or so, then bring it back out,

With a great big sign that says 'New and Improved !" lol

Weird things happen in retail sometimes, I remember moving stuff from the front door where it was in plain sight and didn't sell, to a back corner that you had to go look in, and the stuff would sell....(scratching head...)

Title: Re: Early Proto
Post by: Branson on August 28, 2011, 09:43:39 AM

Works sometimes.  We had some jewelry at my grandfather's store and it wasn't selling.  He talked to one of the salesmen he bought from and the salesman told him the prices were too cheap, and people doubted the quality.  So my grandfather doubled the prices, and things sold quickly that had been passed over before.  Human nature can be strange...

Title: Re: Early Proto
Post by: eddie hudson on August 30, 2011, 11:15:09 AM

The higher priced new auction has no bids

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230665143068

Title: Re: Early Proto
Post by: lbgradwell on August 30, 2011, 12:40:30 PM

The first offering was an auction, but this one is a BIN; there won't be "bids" per se...