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Beltran
Posted 2015-10-08 7:39 PM (#491765)
Subject: this is just wrong!.. WRONG I Tell you!



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http://www.ebay.com/itm/121782204200?item=121782204200&viewitem=&vx...

Highway robbery... /harrumph.
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jimntempe
Posted 2015-10-08 9:06 PM (#491773 - in reply to #491765)
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And then they have to get that last $10 by charging shipping....
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guyman
Posted 2015-10-08 11:36 PM (#491781 - in reply to #491773)
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If someone needs it., they will pay for it!....that's my one and a half cents!

Cheers.,
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Swept57
Posted 2015-10-09 1:05 AM (#491789 - in reply to #491765)
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Pricey? Yeah, but not out of line anymore. Supplies are drying up. I hate to say it, but if I needed it, I'd pay it.
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mstrug
Posted 2015-10-09 4:28 AM (#491795 - in reply to #491765)
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Try buying 1959 Imperial Tail lights. Marc.
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w.weiland
Posted 2015-10-09 6:45 AM (#491801 - in reply to #491765)
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some of you wouldn't buy it if it was $15.00 so whats the big deal
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FwdLk56
Posted 2015-10-09 7:43 AM (#491805 - in reply to #491801)
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w.weiland - 2015-10-09 6:45 AM

some of you wouldn't buy it if it was $15.00 so whats the big deal


agreed...
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wizard
Posted 2015-10-09 7:52 AM (#491807 - in reply to #491765)
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Well, that's roundaboth the same cost as for a modern Volvo tail light, so considering that this part is 60 years +, the price is high, but not robbery
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GregCon
Posted 2015-10-09 9:26 AM (#491810 - in reply to #491765)
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I think it's a fair price for any number of reasons.

Most of all.....just think that someone took the time and car to store that thing for 60 years just so someone else could have it one day to keep an old Chrysler going.

Plus, if it bothers you that much, just look at it as a $20 lens with $3/year storage fees. You can't store a box of poo for $3/year.

Edited by GregCon 2015-10-09 9:27 AM
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57DODGECONV
Posted 2015-10-09 9:48 AM (#491812 - in reply to #491765)
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In this day and age finding NOS parts in this condition is just about over ,if you need it buy it while you can .
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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2015-10-09 11:16 AM (#491816 - in reply to #491812)
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... and in the scope of all things "wrong", I can think of an infinite list
of things more "wrong" than this. Let's start with child molesters ....

This is a tail light lens for a hobby car, right ?

Yeah, ... let's not get too overly dramatic over the small stuff.
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jimntempe
Posted 2015-10-09 3:41 PM (#491834 - in reply to #491765)
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If someone paid $10 for it 55 years ago, and storage was free, at a compound interest rate of 5.6% it would today be worth $200. So in a way he's selling it to you at cost assuming getting 5.6% interest is about what one could have gotten for the long term if you put the money in the bank. So it's really a bargain.
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MrIncredible
Posted 2015-10-09 4:25 PM (#491837 - in reply to #491834)
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I'm tempted to buy it and build the rest of the car around it.
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big m
Posted 2015-10-09 5:58 PM (#491840 - in reply to #491765)
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I've got one still in the Mopar box that I would be happy if I got $100 for it.

---John
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MrIncredible
Posted 2015-10-09 6:45 PM (#491842 - in reply to #491840)
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big m - 2015-10-09 5:58 PM

I've got one still in the Mopar box that I would be happy if I got $100 for it.

---John


See? $310 and I'd be 100% of the way done with tail light lenses.

Now to find the rest of the car. :-P
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Beltran
Posted 2015-10-09 8:20 PM (#491848 - in reply to #491765)
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First off, I was joking a bit. If you could get a repo its at 250 plus shipping from Sweden, but I never got mine. So yes it's a bargain really, but I have never seen a NOS one for sale on ebay. They usually go for less than 100. That's the first time I have seen one at that price.

BTW John, if you have one still in the box, I will give you 100 for it. It would give me two spares.
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GregCon
Posted 2015-10-10 7:40 AM (#491878 - in reply to #491765)
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Yeah.... I ordered some Desoto lenses from Australia that have never arrived either...
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ronbo97
Posted 2015-10-10 8:37 AM (#491880 - in reply to #491878)
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Buy it, then have it reproduced via 3D printing. Sell the reproductions and make a profit.

Ron

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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2015-10-10 12:28 PM (#491894 - in reply to #491880)
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Everything should be about profit. Children, pets, hobbies, vacations.

If you can't make a buck, then #@! it !
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jimntempe
Posted 2015-10-10 6:34 PM (#491920 - in reply to #491765)
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I should have been paid for reading your post!!! Do you think I read this forum for the fun of it!!!!
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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2015-10-11 1:09 AM (#491935 - in reply to #491920)
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You are right. Check is in the mail. I am psychic and already know your address.
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big m
Posted 2015-10-11 12:38 PM (#491967 - in reply to #491848)
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Beltran - 2015-10-09 5:20 PM

First off, I was joking a bit. If you could get a repo its at 250 plus shipping from Sweden, but I never got mine. So yes it's a bargain really, but I have never seen a NOS one for sale on ebay. They usually go for less than 100. That's the first time I have seen one at that price.

BTW John, if you have one still in the box, I will give you 100 for it. It would give me two spares. :)


I've sent you a PM.

---John
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ttotired
Posted 2015-10-11 6:23 PM (#491982 - in reply to #491765)
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Does anyone have a 3D printer?

I think you could "print" out the shape, but would you get the clarity in the lens?

My thoughts were you would buy that lens to re produce it as well (if there is enough of a market to support it)

Doc
Nothing wrong with making a profit on this stuff
If people were not able to make a profit on it, they would scrap it all and not bother with it, that equals no spares to fix anything

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