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Re: Old Widder Women *LINK*

Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI

>Yes, I bookmarked this 604 just to watch it, and frequently check through the listings she puts up. I bid on the starret protractor head, $18, and was actually outbid. The 604 is really a pretty common plane and normally sells for less than $100 I think, but had to see what one in this kind of shape would go for.

Character always interests me, and I try to observe the differences in people and see what the results are. Last week we harangued Todd for taking advantage of a "poor old widow woman", who we thought wasn't capable of taking care of herself, and then I see this self proclaimed widow woman who is apparently perfectly capable of taking care of herself. She has better photos online than most of the tool auctions I look at, and apparently knows a bit about the value of the tools. A very interesting character.


Old Widder Women

LN eBay

David Miller from Iowa

>Yes, I have been watching her as well and have two observations:

1 - The LN tools almost always get several bids within the first couple hours until they are up to 95% of their retail cost. I posted a rant on this a while back when one of hers went for just a couple dollars less than retail but with shipping it was actually more than if you bought brand new directly from LN. There is something about this I don't understand.

2 - Her husband may have been a collector, but I haven't noticed a tool of hers that wasn't mint mint mint. Wonder if he actually used any of the tools. As Moses pointed out, she can run eBay very well despite having been on only 9 months....

David

Well Maybe

Todd Hughes

>You know I guess it it just my nature but i am always mighty suspicious of things like this.Maybe I have just heard to many " it belonged to my great grandpapy who used it in the civil war" stories as some person tries to sell me a shotgun made in 1900. But I wonder if this poor widow woman isn't really some hairy cigar smoken guy that hit on the perfect ebay persona "The Innocent Dead Husband Tool Selling Widow Woman". Think about it.Tugs at the heart strings of people who worry about such things causing them to bid higher,other sellers are attracted to the posibilty of getting a deal off an "uninformed" seller and an easy membership into the "Skinned an Old Widow Woman" Club, [SOWW]. Any problims and the "old widow" ...why she doesn't know tools she just selling her husband stuff to suppliment the cat food shes eating....I don't know maybe it's legit but sort of reminds me about the woman a while back that were selling a bunch of high end tools.Said she didn't really know much about old tools then went on to describe them down to a T including type and amount of jappaning!

Notice the seller is in Maryland, well it's not me!.....I'm think about telling people in my ebay listings that I'm a Poor Native American Child who is in an Iron Lung .......Todd

Re: LN eBay

walt quadrato

>Mindy??...Mindy from Maryland???? I know that name from somewhere...seem to remember something about her ...isn't she............ one of Todd's girl friends??? :-)

walt Q

Re: LN eBay

Todd Hughes

>Just checked my "Book" [I keep track of such things]and nope no Mindy, was a Wendy but no Mindy.....Todd

Re: Well Maybe

Greg Sloop, Portland Oregon

>...other sellers are attracted to the posibilty of getting a deal off an "uninformed" seller and an easy membership into the "Skinned an Old Widow Woman" Club...

Isn't the perfect mark one that's greedy - then you take the greed and use it against them? It's hard to take advantage of a non-greedy mark. What goes around, usually comes around - eventually.

(Just some thoughts...)

Cheers,

Greg

Re: Well Maybe

Christopher Fitch @ Memphis

>I wondered that too... that's alot of nice collector level tools.

Some of those tools are almost perfect...

Of course...

Christopher Fitch @ Memphis

>there is another possiblity.

She very well could be a widow...but she has Todd's evil clone helping her out with the auctions for any sucker for tools.

:)

Re: LN eBay

Greg Phillips, Berrien Springs, MI

>Greg Sloop's LN62 with the extra blades sold for $277. That's not too much less than buying all the stuff new from FTJ. He did all right for himself, notwithstanding the fact that he pointed out in his description of the plane that he had found one he liked a lot better. I guess truth in advertising doesn't cost all that much after all!

Happy Holidays!

Greg

Something to be learned

Jim in Burlington Ontario

>I bid on a few of the Bridge city. Then got to thinkin what if I croaked would she do half as good a job getting the money out of my tools?

Nuts!!

Cooper Suter

>That is a ridiculous price for that plane.

Clean or not, in my book a 604 doesn't rate $255.

There wasn't any lack of bidders though, so the market has spoken.

Does make me think about selling the equivelant condition 605 I got for $25 (my standard common Bedrock offering price) off of a old widow lady.

I personally see many more 605's than 604's, but a 604 is still anything but scarce, even in clean condition.

Coop.

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Dale Stansbery

>It's probably legit. She most likely got tired of her husband spending that kind of loot on himself, and not on her, and made herself a widow.