One for rrlund

Does this fit in your collection? Make up for the one that got away.
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nice looking tractor, but I never understood not posting a price on what you're trying to sell

Nice enough tractor, but I never reply to a "I will not set a price but you can make me an offer" type of sellers.
You can't make an offer over the phone because you haven't seen it yet, and when you get there and talk price you find out that it's way too high and you've wasted your trip.
Been there, done that.

I like it, but have to agree -- wouldn't give it a 2nd look without SOME sort of idea on price.

2-44 industrial would have had a non adjustable front axle. You would need to see the model/serial plate. Decals don't make it rare.

I wish it was sitting in my shed,I'll tell you that much.

I've found the quickest way to get the guy to set a price is to offer him a ridiculously low offer, like $500, with a smile. When they start spitting and sputtering, just act all innocent and say,

"Well you insisted I make an offer. I made a low offer. What are you really thinking on price?"

Seems they either hang up on you, swear at you until you hang up, but most times you find out what they really want for price....

Now the guys who threaten to cut it up if they don't get what they're asking, I don't bother with them.

Might be a rare one, once owned by Barney Fife or Andy. That is in their neck of the woods.

Neat little tractor.....just tell the guy I am in your store, where is the price tag?
Ben

There is a Cockshutt 30 sitting in a used (well, ABUSED is more like it) car lot about a half hour from me. Paint is original, but good, sheet metal is decent and is listed as a runner. The seller wouldn't tell me his price, just that he turned down an offer for $400 on it. So I offer him $500. He says that the price has to be higher, as a battery and fresh gas will make the thing start. Just to get a ball-park range, I ask him if he'd take $1500 for it. The words out of his mouth were as follows: "Well, now I can tell the next guy that I turned down $1500 for it."
I turned around and walked. Now I wouldn't buy it for $500 if he called me up and said that was the current selling price. Never again.

I just checked out an Oliver 550 industrial and found out that there was an option of an industrial adjustable front axle. It showed up on the build card.

Jim

I have to agree with others that no price is a non-starter. I look at a lot of old tractors, old cars, guns, tools, swap meets and yard sales. I just hate having to say, "How much is this? How much is this?" ad infinitum. Sometimes there may be a dozen or more things I might be interested in, but without prices listed I usually just walk on by. And when a would-be seller says, "What'll ya give me?" I always politely reply that I'm uncomfortable pricing another person's property. Sometimes that gets a price, sometimes not. If not, I say thanks and walk.

Nice tractor......even has power steering. Too far away for me to get excited.

I also have to agree with others about not even making a offer. He should have put some kind of price on it even if it was crazy high. He probably does not know how much it is worth and is worried that the price in is head is to low. He should maybe do more research, it will most likely be for sale for a long time.

Over this past summer I found a 1955 Oliver on CL about a half hour away from me. It said "make offer in the ad". I called the guy, he told me about the tractor and a price someone else offered him that he turned down. The tractor was nothing special needed work and had been sitting in a barn for the last 20+ years. It did not run but supposedly turned over. It was the guys fathers tractor who had recently passed away, so he was selling off the fathers tractors and other items. So we went to look at it with cash in hand. The guy was kind of a jerk, I looked over the tractor and like I said it need some work just to get it running but it was pretty much all there the cab was rough but it did have fender tanks. Anyway I made an offer a few hundred dollars more than his other offer, he than proceeds to tell me that he is holding his own personal auction on the tractor! And will not sell it till he checks with the other parties making offers. My brother in law asked him right out if he was a licensed auctioneer? I should have just walked away at that point and told him to forget it. But I would really like a 1955 that's the only reason I was still interested, so I offer a little more and said we have the cash with us and could pick it up the next day. He laughed at me and says well there might be a family member interested but they have not looked at it yet and he has to let them have a chance. I was done at this point and aggravated to say the least... I did not end up buying it and I do not know how much it sold for I really do not care. He did call me three times after that to make a higher offer, I told him you have my offer and that's it.

If he wanted to auction the tractor and other items he should have hired a auction company! Even before that he should have checked with the family member and got there decision then proceeded. It was a complete waste of my time and the other people's time that were involved. If there actually was others making offers.

Yeah, it is a nice tractor. Is it actually that rare? I know the drawbar is a hard to find part, I know it's got low hours, but is it only rare because it is green? I've seen a few other of the 2-44's, and they were the yellow ones. So let's just take a guess at what it's actually worth, anyone have any ideas?? Are we talking like $5000, like the guys that have the overpriced 550's with a couple implements are asking, or more than that?? I don't know the value of them, because I don't follow the value of that stuff much, but I'll bet if that were a diesel, there would be a $10,000 asking price if he were to list a price for it.

I think the hours are what might sell that one. Sumerix had a late 550 with something less than 2000 hours on it a few years ago. They wanted $7500 for that one.

I will go with $7500/8000. I say he has $10k in his head. That's just a guess I don't follow those style Olivers to much usually bigger 4Digits.

That's crazy. I need to button mine up so I can just get rid of it. Talked to Royse at one time about possibly trading it for a Ford diesel he has.