Nah, I understand exactly what your saying, and I agree with you completely. In fact for me it usually works out to things like I've got quite a few boxes of #5 Spline drive sockets that I bought from a scrap yard I did a lot of work for at one time. I bought the whole lot because there was also a bunch of 1" drive stuff in with them that I needed. I'm now using some of the 1" stuff, sold a set of the spline drive stuff, and just put together a full set of spline drive sockets from 7/8" to 4" to use with the cylinder bench I made. Might sound crazy to buy all of those sockets, but the value of the 1" stuff was more than I gave for all of it. I then sold one set of spline drive sockets for more than I gave for all of it. Too I've still got a full set for myself to use now with my cylinder bench. In the end I, just so far, either got back in cash, or usage, more than three times the amount invested just to start. Better yet, am now set to make even more money with the spline stuff using it with the cylinder bench, and still have several more boxes of spline drive and 1" drive sockets, that aren't costing me anything, to sell when I get the time.
That said, my thinking on this whole deal is this. I've only got maybe a dozen of the sets with that numbering system on them. So, unless they are some rare item I wouldn't get that much out of selling them if wanted to. Two, given that I am a mechanic by trade, I could probably open one of each part number and know just from looking what they are, but I really don't want to open an unopened set if I don't have to. Further, the other catalogs on Ebay, be they older or newer, were all going in the neighborhood of $30. This tells me that all you've got to do is do a bit of looking, but you can probably find what you need for way less than this guy is asking. Not to mention, the guy I saw with the two super expensive manuals had a blurb in his ad basically saying if you didn't like his price to make him an offer. This tells me he, one, knows his prices are outrageous, or two, doesn't have a clue what they are worth, but still wants to make money off of the. That being the case, what he's like posting an item for sale, and asking $300 for it, when you'd be happy to have $30. By doing this there is always the chance some idiot will offer you $60, or more, for your $30 item. You drop the price and make them think they are getting a deal, and you make out like a bandit.
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