some people just don't get it

[JohnDistai]

I had a BT3100 with all the accessories.  I started out asking between $250 - $300.  I don't remember.  I do remember there not being much interest, and dropping the price pretty rapidly.  The guy that bought it wanted it and a stacked dado blade for $150.  Um, no.  I sold the dado blade at work for $50 (probably too cheap) and finally negotiated to sell the saw for $200.

One thing I learned at the BT3 forum is that if you are patient, you can part out the saw and get somewhere near $400.  I didn't want the hassle and needed the space for my MFT, so I sold it all at once.

The market is slow for these, unfortunately.  There were several BT3100's for sale on the BT3 forums for $250.  I wish you luck in selling it.

 

[JohnDistai]

Speaking of cheap stuff, on a local woodworking forum there would be a posting almost every day about how someone was excited that they bought some really cheap piece of crap at Harbor Freight.  Then all the other "regulars" would reply about how they were happy or envious or whatever.  It was like they were keeping score of who had the most garbage.  It was really pathetic.

 

[harry_]

There is really only one reason to this.
In general, America is a throw-away society.
We want it cheap and we want a bunch of it.
If it falls apart and breaks a few months later, we toss it and get a new one.

That is a way of thinking that is hard to change.

I think it has a lot to do with age and/or upbringing. My son who just turned 21 asked me a year or so ago "you have all this nice, old (his perspective) stuff, and it still works... how is that?" My response was "because you did not grow up under my roof, if you had you would still have all your stuff in good working order as well. It is how my parents raised me". I wont even loan him something as trivial as a CD. Give him one, sure. Loan it, hell no! He was raised with a disposable mentality, he is only now beginning to see the ills of that now that he is on his own and beginning to understand the true (and shrinking) value of a dollar!

PS  I drive an 11 year old 3/4 ton suburban, pre-dented. [big grin]

I got me a pre-dented, 12 year old, 1/2 ton dodge pickup,  and a 14 year old toyota corolla that was in mint condition till I loaned it to.... guess who!

Pity, it still has less than 100k miles on it, but it doubtful that it is worth the cost to repair it. I should actually look into it cuz those things are million mile cars.

 

[spikfot]

Speaking of cheap stuff, on a local woodworking forum there would be a posting almost every day about how someone was excited that they bought some really cheap piece of crap at Harbor Freight.  Then all the other "regulars" would reply about how they were happy or envious or whatever.  It was like they were keeping score of who had the most garbage.  It was really pathetic.

Yes, I'm afraid I know exactly which forum your'e speaking of. ******,****** the jibber jabber gets a little old over there

 

[spikfot]

Frank, I used to be that way but some guys broke into my truck last year not once but twice and stole radar detectors, gps's, a laptop and projector.  In my driveway.  The cops say this is happening more and more since the economy went down hill.  Now, I don't leave anything of value in my truck.  Ever.  I close the garage door even If I'm going to be in the house for 5 minutes.  It would be too easy for people who don't give a s...t about taking someone else's hard earned property to run off with some of it.  We live in Plano, considered to be a pretty safe town.  However, that being said, I also think most people are trustworthy.  It's the very small minority that cause all the trouble.  I have bought and sold many things on Ebay without issue.  I have also sold many things on the FOG and I'm always amazed how we trust someone to send us hundreds of dollars to someone they have never laid eyes on and then that same person grants us that same trust that we will deliver to them what was represented in good order.  I was burned once on Ebay when I was trying to buy a Leigh FMT.  It was a classic phishing scheme and I should have known better.  $800 down the tubes.  As it turns out, they were overseas somewhere (the weasily bastards) so I had no recourse.  Never again.  Unfortunately, we have be more like what Reagan said, "trust but verify".  

Sorry to hear that howard, I had a whole tool box pried off the back of my truck one day, stuffed full of timberframing tools. a big loss. 10 years ago and I'm still not over it

 

[JohnDistai]

William,

If you are thinking about a forum involving North Carolina and Woodworking, then that would be the correct one.

 

[bruegf]

Thanks John,  that's in the price range that I was hoping to get.  It's certainly not a great saw, but it really isn't bad for the money.  I was able to get everything but the fence alignment with the blade tilted to within .002-.004".  Overall its been a decent saw for what I've used it for.

Fred