Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 19:16:24 -0500
Reply-To: Bruce Nadig <motorbruce@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Bruce Nadig <motorbruce@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: FS: clearance : many assorted Vanagon parts
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I seem to remember a recent post.
Date: Friday, July 18, 2004
Subject Line: Plug for my Ceramics Business
Posted By List Member: Stan Wilder.
I don't remember Stan including any prices in that thread (although they are
on the link in his thread).
Stan, what is the big deal about posting prices in every thread? You harp on
this all the time! One of the most important lessons in life I learned is
that everything is negotiable. Yeah, I did buy stuff from Dave. He didn't
ask me to respond to your post. I'm doing it just because I get so tired of
your harping (and that of others). By the way, Dave's prices were far more
than fair, and he was easy to deal with.
Now consider these scenarios. I wanted to buy all of Dave's new A/C
components, the new bumper end caps, and possibly the engine cover rug. I
e-mailed Dave and told him this. He gave it some thought and told me what he
felt would be a fair price. I liked the price on all but the engine cover
rug so I passed on that and bought the rest. However, here is the bonus for
Dave. He only has to do one transaction to get rid of 5 different items that
he advertised. That saves him a lot of time and effort. Good for him.
Consider this. Someone might want only one bumper end cap. If that person
and Dave reach an agreement on price, Dave will have to package that single
item, keep track of the payment for it, take it to the post office (or
wherever) once he gets paid. Clearly this is more trouble than selling
several items in a single transaction.
What we are looking at here is transaction cost. The more you can sell in a
single transaction, the less it costs the vendor. That is why many of us
that don't have formal businesses sell like this. It is worth our while to
wheel and deal just to get rid of the junk we have sitting around. I have a
pretty big inventory of used Porsche parts in both my garage and house. Sold
individually, I'd like a lot of money for them. However, I'd be more than
happy to give someone a WONDERFUL deal if they came and hauled all of it
away. I'd still want to make money, but it would be worth it for me to do it
in a single transaction and make a little less money.
Stan, you are in business. Surely you understand issues such as set-up time
and the economies of volume production. Well, that is what Dave just might
be doing here. Buy more, get a little better price. If you are polite with
him, he may throw something in extra also (I was polite, but I didn't get
anything extra, although this has happened to me with transactions with many
other list members).
I like to think that we are here to form a supportive community with a
shared interest. I'll go out of my way to help a fellow Vanagon owner, even
if I don't know him/her. It really gets me pissed when someone gets their
panties in a wad just because someone is different or has a unique style.
We all have our own way of doing things. Stan, you do things your way. Dave
does things his way. I do things my way. In the words of Rodney King: "Can't
we all just get along?"
Whatever happened to all those peace signs we used to see on the old busses?
Let's All Just Try To Get Along,
Bruce
motorbruce
motorbruce@hotmail.com
>From: Dave L <whitewaterboxer@ATTBI.COM>
>Reply-To: whitewaterboxer@ATTBI.COM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: FS: clearance : many assorted Vanagon parts
>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 18:56:53 -0400
>
>Do I detect that you're miffed abut something ?
>
>I think that folks who have bought things from me in the past have been
>pleased with my prices. I've even given some parts away for just the
>cost of shipping. My initial asking prices for the seats a few weeks ago
>were too high and some folks never countered. Oh well, some others
>got them for a lot less.
>
>Do you have a problem with me trying to make a little money off the
>parts van ? FYI, I came down with leukemia a year ago, and was out of
>work for a year. That's why I sold all of my vans and have no plans to
>ever get another van. I couldn't deal with these parts while going
>through chemo. Now I'm getting it over with while my strength is up.
>I'm still not cured and I don't want my wife saddled with this shit if
>things
>get worse. I started advertising the seats and this stuff last year before
>I got sick and then never followed through with requests because I was
>hospitalized.
>
>If you don't like the way I'm going about this, then just ignore it.
>I'm getting lots of interested folks as it is. Have a nice day, prick.
>
>Oh, and if there's anything on my list that you're interested in, the price
>to you is $1000 per pound plus cost of actual shipping.
>
>On 18 Jul 2004 at 13:06, Stan Wilder wrote:
>
>Send reply to: "Stan Wilder" <wilden1-1@sbcglobal.net>
>From: "Stan Wilder" <wilden1-1@sbcglobal.net>
>To: <whitewaterboxer@ATTBI.COM>,
> <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>Subject: Re: Re: FS: clearance : many assorted Vanagon
>parts
>Date sent: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 13:06:12 -0500
>
> > That's cool Dave ............... any idea when you'll be posting the
> > prices???
> >
> > Stan Wilder
> > www.engineceramics.com
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dave L" <whitewaterboxer@ATTBI.COM>
> > To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> > Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 11:48 AM
> > Subject: Re: FS: clearance : many assorted Vanagon parts
> >
> >
> > > I've updated the page with a few items I forgot. I also made two
> > > versions, one for high-bandwidth readers, another for those with
>dialup
> > > lines. Just got to http://home.comcast.net/~whitewaterboxer/ and it
>will
> > > give you a choice.
> > >
> > > Please give me your zip, so that I can estimate shipping costs.
> > >
> > > If you don't see your part listed, I don't have it.
> > >
> > > I've gotten swamped with requests, and I'll get back to each of you,
>but I
> > > figured I would modify the page so that it would answer some common
> > > questions (like requests for stuff I don't have).
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Dave
> > >
> > > On 17 Jul 2004 at 23:31, vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Self <whitewaterboxer@attbi.com>
> > > To: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com
> > > Subject: FS: clearance : many assorted Vanagon parts
> > > Date sent: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 23:31:20 -0400
> > >
> > > > OK, all of the seats that I advertised a few weeks ago have sold.
>Now I
> > > > have a bunch of other stuff for sale. Not owning any vanagons any
> > > > more, and not expecting to anytime soon, there's just no reason to
>have
> > > > these things hanging around.
> > > >
> > > > There's some big stuff, things that I would rather not ship, most
> > > > significantly a transmission. Most everything else is shippable.
>The
> > > > front bumper, I suppose could be shipped.
> > > >
> > > > Interior parts, exterior parts, lights, mechanicals, electronics,
>A/C
> > parts.
> > > >
> > > > Some parts are used, off of a parted-out 87. Some are new parts
>that I
> > > > was going to use on my 89, but never got them installed before
>deciding
> > > > to sell it.
> > > >
> > > > I have a web page set up with pictures of the parts at
> > > > http://home.comcast.net/~whitewaterboxer/
> >
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