

| Subject: | a van thought friday or not ;) |
| From: | Jay lefstein |
| Date: | Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:13:55 -0700 |
hey guys, it's jay from vancouver... i have just spent the better part of the morning changing a bunch of oil seals and a few coolant system bits and pieces.. oil pump cover gasket, filler tube gasket, oil cooler seal etc.... I drive a 87 syncro westy and i have a 88 8 pasenger van i use to store/ sell parts from.. i have parted out 5 vans in the last 3 years and It has been good for me and many others.. my thought is this... almost everytime i do a project on my syncro I see something it needs, most of the time i have it in one of my 10 rubbermaid bins of parts or on my parts van.. I am finding that there are less and less van worth buying for parts and more and more parts harder to find. so I fell like it makes the good parts i have worth more to me for this simple reason. If I sell a part for $25 today and a week later i need the same part for my own van and have to order it from the states ( i live in canada) or germany and pay tax and shipping etc. it could cost me 10X as much as I made.. any of you out there feel the same? any thoughts from buyers or sellers on what is fair or how to price these old parts... J
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