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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: Quicksilver on May 27, 2008, 08:12:35 pm
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http://cgi.ebay.com.au/HONDA-YAMAHA-SUZUKI-KAWASAKI_W0QQitemZ180247196042QQihZ008QQcategoryZ43810QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Plenty of it.. You decide. Gold or Junk. ;D
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bloody hell lot to go through
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I think you'll kiss a lot of toads before you find a princess ::) ;) ;)
;D
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just checked on all my old stuff and its still there.
thought the missus may have carried out one of her threats ;)
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My money is on 'junk', mostly because the seller has made so little effort to put in a decent description or take decent photos.
For example: What are the 21 bikes? I've spotted two AG100s/175s, and what appears to be a rough-as-guts Z250 deserves its own photo, so I hold low hopes that any of the remaining 18 are worth pissing on...
And three pics of old tyres. Woohoo...? If there are decent wheels in there, or just rusty old shit that's been left out in the weather?
Etc.
At $500, you'd probably be able to find value in it, but you'd have to spend a lot of time reselling it (not to mention the time spent collecting it all).
Of course, there's always the chance that there's a Phantom or YZ360A sitting in there, but I wouldn't be holding my breath....
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i though you where after old tyres nathan ?
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:D
I was chasing decent old tyres... and I got enough of them without paying $500....
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If i was a local i would have a go, at $500 ( assuming it sells for $500 ) you could sort out whats resaleable and recover your $500 in scrap :)
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If I were closer I would certainly be pushing for a looksee prior to bidding.
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TM Bill & I picked up 2 truck loads of very similar looking old crap from a scrap yard in Turangi - didn't find anything of real value but it was a real fun day , pulling bits out of old cars , lots of laughs
Hey Bill - road trip to Victoria with the Van & truck ???
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It looks like a pile of shite to me. If there was anything decent in there you can bet he would have placed a photo or two of it. I suppose you might eventually make your money back but where do you put the stuff until then?
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mmm..kinda looks like crap to me also ;) now this is a hoarder..this pic should have been posted in the hoarders thread..he is a perfect example of a hoarder..why even my 'stuff' is better'n this lot and some think/say/know I am a hoarder..utter rubbish I say!! my word of the day is hoarder in case you hadn't noticed :D it's not really an insult as the dictionary defines it quite clearly an nowhere is junk mentioned :P I am therefor a selective hoarder 8)
Definition: [n] a person who accumulates things and hides them away for future use (doc edit: this is inclusive of whether or not the actual future use ever comes to fruition)
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Geez dont youse know you gotta root a few frogs before you find a Princess ::)
looks like me and Geraldo will have to swoop on this lot as well :D
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it always amazes me how many number of people buy second hand tyres from swap meets. i usually offload several old used tyres for about $10-$30 ea at the annual swap meet i go to.
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Hey TMbill ya only have to kiss the frog.
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someone else's trash is some one else's treasure..you never know what is in that lot of collected items.....
An ancient gold cup mysteriously acquired by a British scrap metal dealer is to be sold at auction with an estimate of nearly $1 million, after languishing for years in a shoe box under its current owner's bed.
John Webber's grandfather gave him the 14-centimetre high mug - which is decorated with the heads of two women looking in opposite directions, and knotted snakes - in 1945, and he long assumed that it was made from brass.
But he decided to get it valued when he was moving house last year and was told it was actually a rare piece of ancient Persian treasure, beaten out of a single sheet of gold hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus Christ.
Experts said the method of manufacture and the composition of the gold was "consistent with Achaemenid gold and gold smithing" dating back to the third or fourth century BC.
The Achaemenid empire, the first of the Persian empires to rule over significant portions of Greater Iran, was wiped out by Alexander the Great in 330 BC.
Auction house Duke's, in Dorchester, south-west England, will put the cup under the hammer on June 5, with an estimate of 500,000 pounds.
Mr Webber, 70, told The Guardian newspaper that his grandfather had a "good eye" for an antique and picked up "all sorts" as he plied his trade in the town of Taunton, also south-west England.
"Heaven knows where he got this, he never said," he added, revealing that as a child, he used the cup for target practice with his air gun.
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reminds me off a story about a maico .woops