Hello Jae,
>I'm intrigued. I am looking into whether or not an SUSV or civilian
>version is suitable for my area. (I live on Baffin Island). So, I
>have to wonder how you know how much the owner picked up his SUSV
>for, how you reach your valuation for $15000 (I looked online and
>all the SUSVs I found for sale were in the 30-40K range)?
Because this one was bought at a DRMO auction for around $10,000 in Juno
(I think it was Juno anyway) sometime late last year. This one is STILL
in Alaska and now the individual wants about four times what he paid for
it. I for one think this is robbery. A reasonable profit margin is to
be expected, but three fold? Not OK in my book. Call me old fashioned,
but I would *never* stick it to someone like this.
It would be one thing if he bought this off some unaware farmer (which is
a different issue!) and tried to turn around and sell it for the going
rate, but the couple hundred that were sold at the auction were all sold
for around the same price. This means the going rate should be around
$10,000 +
If you are seeing them for $30-$40k then there are more people trying to
screw us. The Army sold them cheap, therefore they should be resold
cheap. Bad news for our hobby if everybody that came away from DRMO
turned right around and offered what they bought for 4x what he paid for.
For example, M35s would be going for $20,000!
Steve
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