Date:         Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:13:55 -0700
Reply-To:     Jay lefstein <jleftbrane@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jay lefstein <jleftbrane@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      a van thought friday or not ;)
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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