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- Aug 29, 2010
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- OKC, OK
- First Name
- HotRod
- Truck Year
- 85 K20 LWB
- Truck Model
- Silverado
- Engine Size
- 454 - Turbo 400 - 3.73
BTW, Just so you don't come across as misunderstood. Never lmfao at a gift horse. Just be humbly happy and excited.
It just kinda makes it look like you took advantage of someone and laughing about it. It's not taking advantage at all. It's a great deal that works for you both. He very well could be laughing at you saying, this dumbfuck is going to fix my exhaust that I was going to pay the shop $200 to do for POS transmission I don't need. Point is, you're both getting a deal.Anyone here will tell you, I scope some killer deals and many times they turn into FREE deals, 2 quick examples.
Like buying a 700r4 4x4 K case and NP241C Tcase for $100, then selling the NP241C on CL for $100, now I have a FREE 700r4 for going to pick it up. The story was, a guy had it in his storage facitily and he owed $50 for another month. So he told them all he had left in there was Trans/Tcase. They told him if he didn't haul it off he'd forfeit his $25 cleaning deposit. So he said I'll haul it to the scrap yard and get $10 for it and get his $25 Deposit back too. He had 2 days left in the storage til the $50 was actually due. So he listed it on CL for $100 obo. I hit on it within minutes. Went and bought it. Clean and nice shape. Also said to work. He had swapped out to a Th400/NP205 and why it was there. I seen the Th400/NP205 in his 89 Burb. It was there with him and I tried to talk him into signing up here. I questioned him, if it works, why so cheap? That's when he told me the story and he didn't want to load it into his Burb and spill fluids, and had no help loading it to get it to the scrap yard. I didn't flinch, I paid the $100 and took it home. Sold the Tcase for $100. FREE trans. We both scored big time. He got $100 instead of $10, didn't have to load it, and got his $25 deposit too.
2nd story. I needed a Th400 splined NP208 for my A833 trans. I had 2 700r4 with adapters splined Tcases. So I put one on CL asking for Trade to Th400 splined Tcase, no adapter needed, for a 700r4 Tcase with adapter or $100 cash. Guy shows up to buy it for $100 in a hunk of ****, dressed like **** and looking hungry. He said he needed it very bad to get his truck running that he hasn't worked in a week and about to lose his job for no transportation. Then he told me his buddy gave him a Tcase but it was the wrong one and wouldn't work cuz the splines were to big. I asked if he brought it with him. He said yeah, it's in the truck of his borrowed car. I got look at it. BINGO!!! Just what I needed, a Th400 Tcase. They guy already has his $100 out in $20's $10's and $5's. It was obvious he scrounged up the $100. I said, buddy, if you want, I'll trade you straight across. You could tell the dude wanted to give me a man hug. The look of relief on his face was unreal. He asked, Are you serious? Oh man you don't know how much that will help me. Then I showed him my A833 and told him what was up, and was happy as a pig in ****. His also had the Th400 adapter with it. I asked if he wanted me to take it off for him. HE said, man, I don't even need it, and you hooked me up with the right adapter for mine, so take it all. So now I got the Tcase I was looking for, and I sold that Th400/NP208 adapter on Ebay for $125 + shipping. So I not only got my Tcase, I got the $100 I was asking my Tcase, and an additional $25 on top of that. Trust me, him and I both won bigtime.
Just saying, appreciate these kind of deals when they happen and realize everyone can be a winner and noone is being taken adavantage of.
