Paul in MN said: (quoted from post at 19:21:45 06/23/10) I haven't bought salvage yard parts recently, but when I did maybe 10 years ago, the price quoted was often 50% of the dealer new cost. The salvage yards were as happy as hogs in fresh mud when the tractor manufacturers sent out new price lists to their dealers. All the stuff in their yard just became more expensive, and they could take it to the bank. The common exceptions to this "rule" were really rarely needed parts like big castings, or parts that were being marketed by aftermarket manufacturers. Then the scrapper had to get competitive in order to sell his stuff. One yard I dealt with would scrap the parts they couldn't get "their" price for. I heard one former yard owner bemoaning the fact that he had shipped so much to the metal recyclers when he could be selling it now. His own greed for immediate $$ and attitude that he had to get top dollar or else he wouldn't sell it to the customer cost him his business that would have provided for his family until he passes away. We all lost!!
Paul in MN
There was a local kid around here that inherited a burned out combine that had been left sitting by the side of the road, where it had burned, and later pushed off the shoulder into a field his father left him in his will. The kid offered the combine for sale for 10 years while trying to get "his" price for it. He told my father-n-law once that he had a fellow within $100 of what he wanted for it, but couldn't get any closer, so he didn't sell! My father-n-law scolded him good, (having been good friends with the kids father for many years) and told him to call that fellow back and take $500 off the man's prior best offer, as he was tired of seeing that burned out hulk on the side of the road every time he went somewhere. The kid finally did so, almost two years later! Fortunately, the guy was still interested, and for the new,lower price, he took it.
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