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I love garage sales  

That's a good find,Chris. Found an unbuilt 69 W30 for five bucks last week. Sometimes you gotta ask if they have stuff like that they didn't put out...

mike

...or the seller was principled enough to stick with his quote though he may have misjudged the shipping rate. To me, that's true customer service.

Still sellers like that around despite ebay's strange bias against them, the bread and butter that keeps ebay going.

mike

I remember getting the Joie Chitwood  thrill show version for my eleventh birthday...

mike

Boxes, shipping materials, and time are not free.

That is true but let's call  twelve bucks for handling/materials for an average kit what it is: piracy. There are people to whom money is no object when it comes to getting what they want but I believe the majority of us are um, 'frugal' , to quote a member here. We don't want to waste the extra money for fancy new packing material and express shipping. It doesn't take long to pack a kit and if a guy has done it a few times and plans to keep it up, it's not long before he gets an eye for the appropriate sized used boxes that can usually be obtained for nothing and starts putting a few aside. I won't charge handling and I'm not in it for the money anyways. It's a part time hobby in itself that gives me the satisfaction of supplying something to someone that he/she can't get anywhere else and it helps me get the kits and stuff I really do want. 

mike

Latest 1:1 acquisition...

'68 Merc 350 crew cab

tres elegante, no? 

mike