Kenis' said he wouldnt take a $150 for his. You can't get them anymore. Not that they are worth that to everyone, but they have a little worth to them. Did the saw originally come with a Madsens when you got it, or did you put it on there? If it came with it, Id sell it with it. If it's something you added, then you can sell it separate. I don't know the history on the saw. I'll tell you this, Ive bought and sold a metric ton of saws and 98% of my saws sold have all been ported. I have only ever made money on one of them- a 262, and that is only bc I didn't want to sell it, I wasn't advertising to sell it, but Randy told them I had a bunch of them, and the guy wouldnt take no for an answer. I shot a number out and he took it. Every other saw I have either taken a loss on or just barely broken even with shipping. I buy and sell to friends, I do repeat deals with the same guys. Friendship is the foundation for my deals with them. Im not interested in making money off friends, just getting fair market value.
If the saw came with it, than sell it with it. The most a saw should be marked up generally is to cover shipping, and most of us eat that.
Most know the story of my NOS 288xp lite. How it was bought off Ebay for $840, the buyer snatched it up and immediately started a thread on it "Yeah I bought it, now Steven will want it." Of course I wanted it, but I wasn't going to buy it without Kari's permission. By the time I got the ok, it was sold. Then I saw that thread baiting me. What few know is that I had had a conversation with KRL several months before while doing another $1100 deal and told him that I was looking for a NOS 288xp lite. He said he had both the regular and lite (both nos) but neither were for sale. Fast forward to the 288xp lite on eBay. He gets it, and when I approach him thru pm (since he had baited me in his thread), he tells me the price is $1475, so he was trying to make $600 off the saw, that he specifically bought to sell me. He wasn't a friend, he didn't respect me, he was merely taking advantage of my "want". If it hadn't been for the mob action of my closest friends, and the fact that he was backed in to a corner, I never would have got the saw. And the price we settled on he still made $400 off me. That's left me bitter and Im still not over to this day. I don't want to be that type person, and I don't want to deal with people that are... no one does. I'd like to think that here, friendship outweighs the $.
