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  1. One and only price drop, the off to the local market pages. $1200 or trade towards a newer Hobie Revo with lawn chair seating.
  2. 2003 Magneta trailer for sale. I don’t take Scouts or school kids on trips anymore and never haul more than a few boats at a time. Comparable trailer from Magneta now would cost almost 3k and arrives in a box for you to assemble. This one has some rust (surface only, will clean up decently) and is priced accordingly. Good tires and bearing upgraded to include bearing buddies After market tongue jack Extra long plug wire for the four prong plug. Keeps you from having issues on tight turns, the original had a tendency to get pulled out. Can make a package deal if anyone is interested in a kayak or two to go with it, but all negotiate get discussed openly here as per the rules. Would also trade towards a shorter pedal drive kayak with lawn chair seating. I’m fishing out of a couple of hobie adventures and love them, but a smaller craft for pond hopping and easy flats access on the Cape would be handy. Trailer only: $1350 kayaks available include a Manta 14 (needs a plastic weld repair on the top, but is still being used as is on lakes and ponds without issue) and a few tarpon 120’s.
  3. We’re pushing hard to buy a commercial building for our mental health practice. We’re close to landing a deal on a 4000 sq ft building that we can modify to a pretty close to perfect configuration for us. It’s less than 10 years old, in the perfect location, has good parking….. The HVAC is the issue. I brought my guy to inspect it and he won’t even touch the job. The installer used flexible ducts for everything, and I mean everything. 70 foot runs of flex ducts with those stupid foam inserts to connect to the main trunk. It appears that there’s a condensation leak that’s degrading the ceiling in one spot. The other issue is that there are only two returns in the entire building. They are side by side about 6 feet from the furnace room. There’s not a single return in any office or common area. Wtf…. We’re building out 7 additional offices in this building. We either have to try and tie into the existing main trunk of flexible ductwork or we have to go tear it all out and start from the unit with proper ductwork. The return ductwork would have to be run from the unit all over the building regardless. All of this is in an attic with manufactured trusses that make accessing anything a pain in the ass and that requires walking from joist to joist since they never bothered to build a walkway to access the mechanicals. Any thoughts? Is the flex ductwork that bad a choice for long runs in a commercial space?
  4. Whereabouts? It’s about 45 minutes to hit that border for me. Warwick on a Saturday morning would be possible.
  5. Last drop to $40. Killer option when bunker are in thick.
  6. 70 shipped, I’ll send you a check and you can wait for it to clear? No fees for you that way.
  7. Willing to move on that price at all? I’ll pay promptly in whatever format you’d like.
  8. I think people find things they are interested in and pursue them. Passes the time and they get pretty into the minutia of it all (kind of like how some guys are with plugs). It becomes problematic though when you can't let it go.
  9. I replied to a WTS thread and have gotten texts and PM's, so thought I'd put the info here. I've been helping Mom liquidate Pop's (her father) stamps, coins, and crappy tchotchkes. We're talking commemorative plates with certificates of authenticity level of quality here. It's all stuff that he saw on QVC and such and bought into the "it'll be worth money one day if I buy it now" mentality. Included in this mess were thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of stamps. I spent weeks researching, calling places, emailing auction houses, travelling to a dealer, and having one dealer come to her home. The conclusion: Very few stamps (or coins for that matter) in a casual collection are likely to have much value. Newark Stamp and Coin was helpful. Decent guy and felt like he was upfront. He gave us melt value for commemorative silver coins that was in line with what I checked before we went. He sorted through several ten gallon totes with us as well and made a phone call to help me with some other stuff. Satchel Stamps in Morristown was also helpful. He came to the house and spent a few hours going through the remainder. Most of the uncancelled stamps, many 50 years old or older, were worth more to use as postage than to sell to a collector. Some complete and unblemished collections, well kept and curated in special binders without any gaps in the set, brought a little money. A lifetime of stamps brought a few hundred dollars. That's money to use for Mom on a trip to Costa Rica this year and it helped reduce clutter in her house, an ongoing issue that we're trying to help her with. The dollar value for my time was probably below minimum wage though. Here's a directory of stamp dealers. The two I mentioned are in here. Dealers (stamps.org) You can sell them on your own on fleabay or hipstamp, but it's a lot of work for a dollar or two at a time. "Stamp Identifier" is a helpful app that will let you find a rough value for individual stamps. Sometimes gets you close and then you start googling to get it exactly right for what you have. If you think you have higher end collection you can try Daniel Kelleher Auctions. They're online and will take your collection on consignment. Hope this helps a few folks!
  10. Where are you located? I just went through liquidating a ton of stamps for my mom (from her father), including a large number of first day stamps. Feel free to pm me and I can tell you where we went with them.
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