Expensive job lot, (bidding has finished).

[Mr_P]

3 people thoughty this was worth over £400, although the winning bidder did have a feedback of "1"

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LARGE-JOB-LOT ... 2070707012

Maybe my middle aged eyes are missing something ?

 

[Anthraquinone]

Ah but did you not notice that they were "VINTAGE" maks all the difference :roll:

AQ

 

[SteveF]

i am wondering what item was worth the extra £400 i think it is worth

Steve

 

[Phil Pascoe]

There are some nice tools there - but I'd be delighted if I got £150 for the lot, and happy if it went much over the £100. One guy bid consistently nearly up to the end - it wasn't just an idiot.

 

[Wildman]

could have been shill bidding who knows
you cannot check identities and locations as you could once upon a time.

 

[AndyT]

It must have been that Paramo Planemaster pushing up the bidding - complete with the original box!! :wink:

Everything else looks pretty ordinary to me.

 

[cedarwood]

Over 100 tools that makes them on average around the £5 mark each, now I know a lot of folks pay more for just one of the smaller items say one of the chisel's for instance so seller got a fair price and the buyer would probably of paid a lot more had he bought the items individually.

 

[yelts]

Way to much for that lot, but I've seen some strange prices on ebay recently

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Over 100 tools that makes them on average around the £5 mark each, now I know a lot of folks pay more for just one of the smaller items say one of the chisel's for instance so seller got a fair price and the buyer would probably of paid a lot more had he bought the items individually.

Yes. But the downside with lots that size is that invariably you only want 20% - 25% of them, which means you paid dearly for the rest (and it'll be the rest that'll probably be the ones difficult to sell on).
I assume this doesn't apply to the purchaser, mind.

 

[NickN]

Expect to see that kind of throwing money around before Christmas, but not after...

Ah well, it's a good chance the lot was bought by one of the rather overpriced hand tool junk, oops I mean, boutique shops to sell as 'fully looked at, oops, I mean, restored' individual items to unwary buyers with an incorrect ratio of money to sense.

 

[AndyT]

As far as I know, there are less than two dozen shops that you can visit in the UK that specialise in old tools.
I only know one of them well (the one in Bristol) but I'd be surprised if any of them had not learned, years ago, the necessity of buying cheap, if you expect to turn any profit at all when reselling.

When I have looked at the occasional job lot, they have always sold for not very much, which is what makes this particular example a bit intriguing. Anyone in the trade would surely have dropped out long before, to spend their cash elsewhere. Maybe two beginner woodworkers really did want to equip themselves in bulk and decided this lot was ideal.

Or is the razor blade plane a really rare Norris model?

 

[screwpainting]

That's a nice golden virginia tin though