RE: Salvage yard closing out

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Time is money..how much would it cost to have someone take off 
stuff.clean it..label it...get it on the net..ship it.The math takes a 
bite out of the ol profit side of the ledger.Try selling parts at a 
swapmeet then go back and figure your time and see if your making money 
off those old suncracked lenses with lightly pitted bezels.

Bob


RCoronetfreak@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> 
>  
> In a message dated 06/23/2004 09:04:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> 62to65mopar@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> 
> Yup, the new owner could rope off the older stuff, hire someone to run 
> an internet-based parts store, and make lots more money than what he'd 
> get from crushed scrap metal. Crushing these '62 to '65 parts cars is 
> just dumb business. Even if he sold the Mopar lot to another Mopar yard 
> he'd make more money, imho.
> 
> Spread the word everyone, we only have a few days to save as many of 
> these Mopars as we can. 
> 
> 
> 
> I have realized that the people who run junkyards for the most part are 
> not 
> very good business men.  Local junkyards near here, including one that 
> just 
> crushed over 1000 1930s to 1980s cars, don't capitalize on their 
> opportunitys.  
> They complain that no one wants to buy parts for the old cars.  Well no 
> duh!  
> People don't know the cars are there and when you price out the stuff 
> they try 
> and get top dollar.   A friend of mine and I were discussing running a 
> junkyard most effectively.  The internet was our key to selling as much 
> as possible.  
> Such a shame too that these guys crush the old cars without taking old 
> car 
> enthusiasts in consideration.  They rely on old car folks to spread the 
> word 
> about them.  They need to get into the 21st century or give-up the old 
> car 
> inventory to old car guys like us that will make the money for them.  I 
> mean come 
> on.  They let these cars sit and sit and the rot into the ground when 
> they could 
> strip off the perisables (lenses and such) and advertise the rest online 
> and 
> get into shipping parts.  Better than whinning about not selling parts 
> on a 
> car for $3000 and just crushing for $500!  
> Rick
> '64 Fury 
> 7? '65 Coronets
> '65 Belvedere II
> '66 Belvedere II
> '67 Fury II Wagon
> '86 600 SE Tubo
> '95 Dakota Sport 
> 
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> 

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