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General Category => GENERAL DISCUSSION TO INCLUDE OFF TOPIC => Topic started by: hickory n Steel on January 19, 2023, 10:54:35 PM

Title: What a bargain for this rare beauty
Post by: hickory n Steel on January 19, 2023, 10:54:35 PM
For the mere sum of $125 you can have this rare Proto ratchet.
 :D
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/232745517487?epid=1822146708&hash=item3630b6c1af%3Ag%3ARtQAAOSwlMRa33z1&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA4OMkhBV%2BB%2BaUJALFXi985tllumjVrQzpyRr62z3QEAXMwzUEgLgQtsbKBHDX4B0%2FOeVDKDElcYPr6hf5Vng%2B8fNU22y4sWwTmgRgWNjZcCKfkN506cWP8oS4wa2MC1553WUz7xA7IJuiKZ4uGklWHV8LKDZOv5%2B5TNTY4x3dAPXVXrFfOMeaARMVUKvW6BDOyD78BhbMOBIErDUlJRSedbC8sLSGMfb3VCY3TWTOzNquKdyNSTkHmksBSKD29YOBZhC1PG5Uw%2BbyAKfewjYCtQhcF3QFyosJ4BzZ7sAtonzr%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR_rOm9i5YQ&LH_ItemCondition=4
Seriously,  $125 for a PROTO 4749 with a chopped off handle, missing detent ball, and a gear that was installed backwards.
I don't think I'd even spend $1 on this at a flea market.
For .50 cents I'd buy it , put in a rebuild kit and fit a screwdriver handle to it, but to me and I imagine many people it's worth little more than that.
Title: Re: What a bargain for this rare beauty
Post by: john k on January 20, 2023, 08:47:39 AM
I am mystified to think of the world these kind of people live in.   Have they been brought up so isolated that they think this is rare?   Or just budding con artists  hoping to score on the less knowledgable.   I see stuff like this often at flea markets, and gun shows. 
Title: Re: What a bargain for this rare beauty
Post by: fatfillup on January 20, 2023, 01:45:25 PM
Someone looking for a sucker
Title: Re: What a bargain for this rare beauty
Post by: hickory n Steel on January 20, 2023, 02:40:09 PM
I sent the seller a message, but they won't respond.
They want to pretend not to know that this is barely worth $1.
Title: Re: What a bargain for this rare beauty
Post by: fatfillup on January 21, 2023, 09:15:26 AM
I sent the seller a message, but they won't respond.
They want to pretend not to know that this is barely worth $1.

Save your energy, you won't get them to change and even if you do, there will be 10 more to take his place

Just sit back and chuckle
Title: Re: What a bargain for this rare beauty
Post by: hickory n Steel on January 21, 2023, 02:24:43 PM
I sent the seller a message, but they won't respond.
They want to pretend not to know that this is barely worth $1.

Save your energy, you won't get them to change and even if you do, there will be 10 more to take his place

Just sit back and chuckle
I was just curious to see where it would lead.


I am definitely curious about the 12 people watching the item, hopefully they just want to see if somebody would actually be foolish enough to buy it.
There's no way anybody could fail to see what this thing ism
Title: Re: What a bargain for this rare beauty
Post by: muddy on January 23, 2023, 06:36:08 PM
Handle looks ro have a custom curve to it...that add $50 to it's value

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Title: Re: What a bargain for this rare beauty
Post by: hickory n Steel on January 23, 2023, 09:25:58 PM
Handle looks ro have a custom curve to it...that add $50 to it's value

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It does look a little bent, I didn't even notice that.