Flapper wrote:
Good tips! As far as scrap value...well, it was a $1200 piece of metal when new, only used 3 yrs, and the offer was $25...so not a viable offer. An order of magnitude more, and it would have left my garage pretty quickly.
Somebody was fishing to "resale" for a profit, can't be helped, it is what it is.
If it has initials of H and A, try contacting them, they used to buy back and rebuild them then resell as a refurb at a good price..
If it is a H and A, you ARE looking at an extremely small market of buyers, most folks won't spend for that item..
One of the big problems you will run into is you can't offer any warranty. For some folk, not a problem, for others they want the sky in promises that things you sell will work forever..
Ran into that many years ago working in a TV repair shop.. Used to take the leftovers (TVs, Stereos, VCRs)that folks abandoned, repair them then take to a local flee-market..
Wasn't asking anywhere new prices, just enough to cover my time and cost of parts.. Had one smarty that wanted a 19" TV that I was asking $50 and they offered for $25 AND a "warranty" on the entire set to go with it :M
Needless to say, that person did not buy the set, but someone else eventually bought it.
Sometimes people can be stupid.