Poper Modle B Q-lathe for sale

[JoeyInCali]

No price posted, no PMs accepted, just make an offer - but a reasonable one...

It was easy to tell that your sale was not going to go well. This is not an on-line auction site, there are plenty of those elsewhere. If you want to sell something here, post an asking price and then your potential customers have something to work with. Several people asked you to do exactly that, but you chose to ignore the requests. Now you want to whine about it...

He should just have posted his Craigslist ad.

 

[pescadoman]

So here we are, five days after I posted the lathe for sale.
I had hoped this would be a place to get some help in selling it and also give someone a good deal on the lathe.

There are 15 replies to my post.
Or should i say 1 TRUE response.
The other twelve are from :
danny turner
Mr Hoppe
Craig Fales
Piercyexclusive
manwon

You five embody the reason that this forum is held in such disdain by so many. Every one of you arm chair quarterbacks spend more time playing referee than the game. Not ONE of your comments are on topic or helpful.
Who the hell cares about the size of the picture I posted!

After looking at your post history that is what you all do, stand around rubbing your dick and messing things up for everyone else. No wonder no one can get any help here as people are BORED reading your BS.

I had ONE serous inquiry, the rest of you should have listened to your mothers and not said SH^T as you had nothing worth saying at all.

Sadly the one person that showed true interest here was not able to commit to it.

BUT I DID SELL IT.
AND WITH NO HELP FROM THIS FORUM.
I Shipped I today to a person in TEXAS who say my add on Craig s List.
He told me he looked on this forum but could not stand the BS so went shopping elsewhere.

This forum could have been such a good place for professionals and semi professionals to help each other out and what we ended up with is nothing more than a herd of wannabes sitting around eating Cheetos in their underwear.

I pity you all.

I'm happy you sold your lathe.

I'm not bothered by the fact I went to the trouble of resizing your images and posting them here for you without receiving a thank you.

What PISSES ME OFF is being insulted. Nothing unreasonable was asked of you. Posting a price should be a forum rule....if it already is not. I'm not going to scour the rules because if I put something up for sale, I post a price. It just makes sense.

I have found this forum to be a wealth of knowledge and most people on here are very helpful. I myself can be an ass now and again, but if I am wrong I admit it and hopefully make amends. I recently had some problems with tip adhesion and within a couple hours was given several helpful answers. Who would you have called 15 years ago to get those answers??

You have now sold your item, yet still feel a need to vent your misguided anger upon members of this forum?

I'm sure you will never need their help.........

 

[foxcues]

My guess is the reason he didn`t post a price is because he was hoping someone would offer him more than the price he had in his head already.I owned a pawnshop for years and we never made an offer on anything without knowing what price range your looking to get.
If I offered $100 on something you would have taken $50 for I would loose $50 that could have been profit.When you see the pawnstars tv show and they make crazy offers or call in the experts and then in front of the customer ask the expert what it`s worth,that is all done for tv.If it wasn`t in front of the cameras the expert and the pawnshop owner would be in the back room deciding what it`s worth and then trying to buy it with out alerting the customer to it`s true value.
I would guess he had a little $ in the lathe and was hoping someone would get out of line on their offer and offer alot of $.

 

[pescadoman]

My guess is the reason he didn`t post a price is because he was hoping someone would offer him more than the price he had in his head already.I owned a pawnshop for years and we never made an offer on anything without knowing what price range your looking to get.
If I offered $100 on something you would have taken $50 for I would loose $50 that could have been profit.When you see the pawnstars tv show and they make crazy offers or call in the experts and then in front of the customer ask the expert what it`s worth,that is all done for tv.If it wasn`t in front of the cameras the expert and the pawnshop owner would be in the back room deciding what it`s worth and then trying to buy it with out alerting the customer to it`s true value.
I would guess he had a little $ in the lathe and was hoping someone would get out of line on their offer and offer alot of $.

I don't know that inferring greed as his motive is proper, but then again I don't care either. His insults were misdirected.

 

[Cue Crazy]

I only live a few minutes from Jacksonville, and saw a add on Craigslist for a Porper, not sure if It was the same add as the OP's, and the add has since been deleted, but if I remember correctly It was priced very reasonably. reasonable enough that I was interested, even though I wasn't really in the market for one, but I only had about half of the cash in hand that was needed to buy it at the time, so I never replied to the add.

 

[pescadoman]

I only live a few minutes from Jacksonville, and saw a add on Craigslist for a Porper, not sure if It was the same add as the OP's, and the add has since been deleted, but if I remember correctly It was priced very reasonably. reasonable enough that I was interested, even though I wasn't really in the market for one, but I only had about half of the cash in hand that was needed to buy it at the time, so I never replied to the add.

Which makes his reaction even more unreasonable. There should just be a forum rule that says a price must be posted.

 

[rhncue]

Which makes his reaction even more unreasonable. There should just be a forum rule that says a price must be posted.

That's easy enough to get around. 1,000,000.00 or best offer.

Dick

 

[bob_bushka]

Porper Lathe

I got one that has been punished for the last 8 years. I guess it is about 20 years old now. I love it for cue repair. Never have been able to taper on it very well but I consider my ineptness on that. Anyway I saw the ad on Craigslist for $1500. I agree that just posting a link to that ad would have prevented all the sniveling going on. But to all you Porper fans and cuemakers out there...keep your passes straight and true!

 

[WilleeCue]

I will kick the standing offer up to $200.

Looks like about $2000 worth of replacement parts and accessories will be needed to call this a cue making lathe.

$2200 for that lathe is a good deal ... dont you think?

(Edit) ... dern ... too late ... it has been sold already.
Someone has a LOT of work restoring that lathe to cue making condition.