FS: MS 360 Pro

[blsnelling]

SOLD

I bought this saw with the intent of keeping it and then bought my 361. This one has to go. It's a very clean saw that appears to have been used very little. It starts and runs great. I bought it with a broken tank and top handle. Both were replaced with new. I modded the muffler, while leaving the screen intact. I just enlarged the hole. The piston looked basically like new. To my knowledge, the saw is all original except the tank and handle. The decompression valve, chain brake, and adjustable bar oiler all work properly. The only flaw in this saw is two minor cracks in the filter cover. No bar is included with the saw. I'm asking $375 + shipping, which is less than I have in it.

 

[blsnelling]

On it's way to eBay.

 

[tbst]

How far away from akron is Franklin? Yeah I have good luck on ebay.

 

[blsnelling]

I'm just south of Dayton about 20 miles.

 

[blsnelling]

Ebay Listing.

 

[tbst]

Atleast you have on bid.

 

[blsnelling]

Have lots more now. Get in while you can

 

[blsnelling]

Less than an hour to go.

 

[blsnelling]

My reserve was $350? If anyone's interested at that price, let me know. I have the auction set to restart without a BIN for tomorrow evening.

 

[Kneejerk Bombas]

That looks like a nice $300 saw. I'm surprised eBay didn't bring more than that. It's after X-mas and everyones broke from all the shopping, I'd guess.
Adding a shot of the piston, through the exhaust port might make the sale, but not for me, the saw's too little.

 

[CaseyForrest]

I think youd have better luck if you drop the reserve. Makes buyers hesitant to bid for fear of getting locked into too high a price.

 

[blsnelling]

I think youd have better luck if you drop the reserve. Makes buyers hesitant to bid for fear of getting locked into too high a price.

That's the whole point. ....to lock them in at a higher price. I've found that if you set your reserve too low, the bidding will stop before it would have if it were higher. People bid, trying to find the reserve. In this case, I'm going to loose money on the chainsaw no matter what. I think it's just bad timing with eveyone having just spent so much on Christmas and everything. I've quickly found out that there's no money to be made in repairing parts saws and then selling them. I've done up several saws and it doesn't look like I'm going to make money on any of them. I'm actaully going to loose money. That's my sob story and I'm sticking to it. It looks to me like a parts saw is only a good deal if you're going to fix it up for yourself. I'm even talking about a saw you pay $100 or less for. If you're going to fix everything as it should be, you're going to have too much in it to make money. Specifically, I have >$400 in this saw and >$300 in my 026 Pro. That's just the way it goes.

 

[computeruser]

That's the whole point. ....to lock them in at a higher price. I've found that if you set your reserve too low, the bidding will stop before it would have if it were higher. People bid, trying to find the reserve.

I've got to disagree.

The reserve-chasing stuff drives a lot of buyers away, I would suspect. Including ones who might otherwise bid up to or past your reserve price. I know it drives me away - I'll bid on items with high opening bids, but will not bid on auctions with $.01 opening bids and unknown reserve amounts. As a buyer, I find the unknown reserve with a low opening bid to provide me with no benefits and a fair bit of frustration, so I skip these auctions. I figure that if the seller has a minimum price he needs to get, then I'd prefer to skip the BS and decide whether or not I want the item at that price and then bid accordingly. Maybe I'm not the usual buyer - I seldom bid my maximum until the last minute, I don't get into bidding wars, and regularly place my only bid in the last 10 seconds - but I'm sure I'm not the only one who eBays the way I do.

I haven't sold a ton of stuff on eBay, but when I had a minimum price for which I'd let the item go (grudgingly and with a lot of cursing), I set that as my opening bid. This was not the price I wanted to get, just the one that I would be willing to accept. I've sold maybe fifteen items in the past six months or so, and in each instance I was satisfied with the results. I actually do believe in the auction model and think that the market does a pretty good job of moving goods at a fair price.

Just my thoughts, of course, but it may be an alternativel explaination for why your saw only went up to $306 when it is clearly worth more than that. Good luck selling the saw, it really looks like a nice one and if I wasn't in the middle of putting my 044 together I'd seriously consider taking it off your hands!

 

[blsnelling]

Just my thoughts, of course, but it may be an alternativel explaination for why your saw only went up to $306 when it is clearly worth more than that.

I really think it was all bad timing. It ended just before midnight on New Year's Eve here in the US. And everyone has spent a lot of money on Christmas in the last few weeks. I'm going to try it again with a 3-day auction and a slightly lower reserve.

 

[blsnelling]

Back up on eBay. LINK

 

[Freakingstang]

Hey Brad, hope you have better luck this time around. Saw looks really clean.

I have sold a TON of stuff on ebay. I made a living as it was my only source of income for 8 months when I was unemployed. Buyers don't like reserves, and they don't like high starting bids.


As for saws, Show a pic with a compression reading. I have always sold a saw for more than expected with a compression reading pic. If compression is good, buyers will know without a doubt it is a good running saw.


Likewise, repairing parts saws to make a buck....is a long shot, but I quit doing it becuase It wasn't worht my time to get less money out of it, than I had in it.

i still love finding parts saws and stockpiling them until i have enough good parts to make a good runner. one of the reasons I have so many, and most of them are running very cheapy. I can oly think of 4-5 off the top of my head than I have significant money in..., three of them were new, or demo saws...

Take care and good luck

-Steve

 

[blsnelling]

Show a pic with a compression reading. I have always sold a saw for more than expected with a compression reading pic. If compression is good, buyers will know without a doubt it is a good running saw.
-Steve

Sounds like a good idea. Maybe a pic of the cylinder as well.

 

[fishhuntcutwood]

I gotta agree, reserves scare me away. I guess everyone is different, but I know I bid against other bidders, not the reserve. Not saying your's is, but many are so darn high, I'm just as well off buying new from a dealer. Be it a saw, or fishing waders or whatever. Alot of folks get greedy with reserves, and I usually won't bother until after the reserve is met. Just me.

I think your description and pics are spot on. Well done.

And yeah, I gave up selling saws on ebay along time ago. The few that I sold, I actually did really well on, but only because I had them so long in my posession that I'd forgotten what I actually had in them!!!

 

[Erick]

Just my .02 but I agree with the others I HATE RESERVE AUCTIONS. If someone has an amount that they need to get out of an item then start the bid there and I can decide if its worth it to me or not, the reserve just frustrates me into not bidding. Sometimes I will put it in my watch and if someone else hits the "MAGIC" number then I'll look closer to see if the item is worth it. I already know what an item is worth to me before I go looking for it, and if I cant get a straight answer as to what someone wants for it then I move on. Kind of like asking a used car salesman what he wants for a car and him saying "well what will you give me for it". My answer is "I'll give you a quarter now what do you want for the damn thing" if he still cant give me a straight answer he's lost my business no matter what the price.

Not equating you to a used car salesman Brad. From what little I know of you from here on AS, you seem to be a real stand up guy who wants to produce a first rate product, and build a reputable side business. Just trying to pass along some information that may (or may not) help you in your business. As for the saw you are listing like I said in another tread if I weren’t recovering from Christmas I would be trying to buy this saw from you. In all honesty though I would have PM'ed you with an offer of 300.00 and let you talk me into something between there and 325.00, that’s what its worth to me. These come up on ebay all the time for between 275.00 and 325.00, yours appears to be in the top 10% as far as condition goes, so 300.00 to 325.00 would be reasonable. I know from reading here that that is less than what you have in it but that’s the going ebay price. A little ebay research will tell you what the going rate is and then you’ll know how much to invest in a project. My Grandfather once told me its not what something is worth it’s what someone else is willing to give you for it.

Anyway back to what I was originally saying, I think you'll do better if you lose the reserve and list the saw for 10.00 or so dollars less than you really want for it. Someone will always snipe the high bid in the last minute and get you too what you want, you might even get some folks who have no idea what its worth to them and just get caught up in the bidding war. Those are the best.

Just my .02

oops looking at the post now I think I may be getting closer to a dollar, hope this all helps.

E.

 

[North Wood]

been on ebay for better than 6 years both buying and selling take off the reserve and start it low i know its a risk but you will be surprised when all the people that think they can steal it suddenly bid up a storm at the end and it goes for more than you thought it would they all ignore reserve auctions and high start bids just the way it is