[MARKDTN]

I agree to some degree, but when I go as a vendor once a year (Nashville AACA) everybody wants my good stuff for so cheap it hurts. Also, it's all older people. The young ones seem to only buy lights and flea market stuff. I try to bring bigger stuff that is hard to ship on Ebay and rarer stuff that is harder to describe on there. There are times I sell stuff cheap so I don't have to lug it home, but I can sell it for scrap value with way less hassle, so try to at least make a reasonable offer. Just a few examples: Had a 427 steel crank, std/std-the good stuff. Lugged it around for several years and finally sold it for $75. Had a '74 pickup 454 complete except rods, apart, would have cleaned up at .010 over. All I could get was $200. Had a set of 461X small block heads. Nice looking clean, been off a car since the '80s-all I could get was $80-and he wanted a free set of cheap valve covers thrown in. Had a box of HEI distributors(5-6 in there), guy offers $20 for the box-no thanks! I guess what I am trying to say is that when you go to buy you have to realize that I spent $100 or so to be there so the first parts I sell just pay booth space. Plus I had to lug all that stuff out and display it. Be reasonable. I don't want to hit a home run on every sale, but I don't want to strike out on every one either.