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Re: Parts Barn Sale Questions

To: <Chip19474@aol.com>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Parts Barn Sale Questions
From: "Gerald M Van Vlack" <jerryvv@alltel.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:26:40 -0400
Chip, I tried to respond but was bounced by aol. Write off list with your
address please. It says that you are not receiving mail from this sender.
Thanks,
JVV
----- Original Message -----
From: <Chip19474@aol.com>
To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 9:45 AM
Subject: Parts Barn Sale Questions


> List,
>
> We've finally realized that in our lifetime (and probably for the next 2
> generations as well), we will never use 90% of the inventory of parts we
have in
> the barn.  So, it's time to think about finding new homes for this "stuff"
> and turning the barn into some sort of profitable venture .  Has  anyone
had
> experience first hand or via a friend or acquantaince with selling a
standard
> size barn full of parts?  Specifically, here's some directed  questions:
>
> 1) Should we hire an auctioner and sell all of the contents at a 2 or 3
day
> on-site auction?
>
> 2) Should we chunk the parts into major categories like transmissions,
> engines, body sheet metal, frames, etc and sell the chunked units either
via
> auction, Ebay, VTR Ad, etc?
>
> 3) Should we separate and condense all of the parts by Triumph model i.e.,
> make a "pile" of anything related to TR2 through TR3B, anything related to
TR4
> through TR250, anything Spitfire, etc., and sell via auction, Ebay, VTR
Ad,
> etc?
>
> Thanks for your thoughts,
>
> Chip Krout
> Triumph Rescue
> Bally, PA


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