WTF?!?!?! Ebay Prices

Red Farmer 84 · Mar 18, 2011

WTF?!?!?!?! "Burch Store" has topped them all with this piece for sale!! Click the link to it, and see for yourself. You'll laugh soo hard. I really can't believe he thinks his stuff is worth soooo much. Especially THIS piece! I would not ask over $50 for the darn thing!!!
Farmall Part for Sale on eBay

Jim in Ma. · Mar 18, 2011

That's free enterprise for you, Nobody said you have to buy it.
Some fool with more money than brains just may jump at that price.

CenTex Farmall · Mar 18, 2011

Keep in mind that the remaining flecks of paint are FACTORY ORIGINAL, GENUINE IH RED.

That must be worth a mint at least.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 18, 2011

Tax time, everything on ebay goes up in price from February till mid June. Sellers market! LOL

Wardner · Mar 18, 2011

If that was an antique Harley-Davidson part, he might just get the $270. I've seen H-D front ends go for $2600 and fenders over $600. Complete bikes for more than $80,000.

Didn't P.T. Barnum say "There's a sucker born every minute"? Even so, I highly doubt that spring will sell and the seller will be out his listing fees. What do I care?

Denny ('60 Lo-Boy) · Mar 18, 2011

Someone looking for that part will pay it. They are quite rare and he knows it.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 18, 2011

Check out his sold items, appears he sells some.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 18, 2011

This kid sells a lot of parts . What I crack up on is the rolling cultivators that he sells for much more than new ones ! Many people don,t know about external_link .

Jg20601 · Mar 18, 2011

Reminds me of the rust colored "original" 140 hood with dents for $500...
and me having one just like it I hope to replace (backordered, otherwise it would be replaced)

Have never figured out how that spring works.. after looking at the pics, still no clue. My 140 has a shear pin instead of the spring. The spring is supposed to absorb the force when you hit an underground tree root. Usually the ditch wheel spins when you hit something like a root.

Our old AC plow had 2 springs and I could see how that worked.

mkirsch · Mar 18, 2011

1-point fast hitch parts, especially that spring, can be valuable to the right person. I could see someone who really really really wants one paying that much.

Ron in Nebr · Mar 19, 2011

Yep...it's not like a guy could just walk into the nearest dealer and buy one. For a guy like me who lives out in the boonies, if I NEEDED one of those(which I don't, but it applies to most anything antique-tractor related), it'd probably be an ok deal...might even be a money-saver when ya figure it's 100+ miles one way to the nearest "tractor salvage" yard which may or may not have one, so with today's fuel prices, half a day minimum off work, and all the other expenses that a rare trip to the "big city" entails("as long as we're here lets stop at...")....clicking "buy it now" and having it all over but waiting for the UPS truck doesn't sound too danged bad.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 19, 2011

I sell at a flea market in the summer and the other vendors told me when i started that something is worth "what the guy with the money in his pocket has and how bad he wants it".
Cheers All Kerry

sflem849 · Mar 19, 2011

(quoted from post at 01:06:48 03/19/11) Yep...it's not like a guy could just walk into the nearest dealer and buy one. For a guy like me who lives out in the boonies, if I NEEDED one of those(which I don't, but it applies to most anything antique-tractor related), it'd probably be an ok deal...might even be a money-saver when ya figure it's 100+ miles one way to the nearest "tractor salvage" yard which may or may not have one, so with today's fuel prices, half a day minimum off work, and all the other expenses that a rare trip to the "big city" entails("as long as we're here lets stop at...")....clicking "buy it now" and having it all over but waiting for the UPS truck doesn't sound too danged bad.

I sure do feel lucky when I read stuff like that. I live in the boonies for our area, but I could be to two IH dealers in 20 min and have 5(?) tractor salvage yeards within 2 hours (100 miles). The closest is about 30 min away and has A LOT of stuff. Not too much in the line of that little stuff. Nobody needed anything like that around here. Some over by Edgerton/Stoughton tobacco country have then, but they didn't go to Jackel's to die.

twfail · Mar 20, 2011

The most interesting thing, I am familiar with the guy at Burch Store (live about 2 hours away), he is a 17 year old high school student who has done all this on his on. His father has no part in his tractor business, he get"s out of school at lunch and breaks tractors down the rest of the day. So, the "kid" could be doing a lot worse things, just trying to give credit to a hard working teenager which seems to be a thing of the past.
Farmall 140

Tom Fleming · Mar 20, 2011

Well, kinda intersting. I went back through the feedback and looked at the prices and items. Yeah, a bit high here and there, but overall not anything out of the ordinary. Yet, people seem to be bidding, buying, and posting good feedback.

As far as the prices on eBay goes, I have seen them go both ways. 2 days ago, and IH gas guage for the letter series went for $25. I could have cried, as I was on the road and forgot to bid. last one of these I saw in the same condition went for $125.

so, price is set by what someone is willing to pay for it. remember, some parts are abundant in certain areas, and rare in others. eBay puts the world at your doorstep if you are a seller, and the inventory of the world at your doorstep if you are a buyer.

I am not the biggest fan of ebay, but I use and will continue to use it. I can spend 20 mins surfing the listings, or the next 5 months driving all over the US at parts swaps, etc. hoping to find a part..............

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