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Topic: Elmo Reels for sale??
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted April 30, 2014 12:03 PM
I thought I'd wait until, yep, Micheal (probably Micheal) would bring it up.
I am selling (for the moment) 20 ELMO 1200ft Metal reels for a lady who's husband (who's deceased) used to collect film and this is just about the last of her husbands film collection stuff that she has. I sold some of his films a few years ago and she still had my address. She's a nice "elderly" lady, very old school, she writes ... yes, actual letters. Quite refreshing actually.
She states that she has another 30 or so 1200, 800ft and 600ft reels, but they're not all ELMO and not all metal, so I thought I'd start with the great ones first, and wait until these sell.
and my profit is an already agreed upon 5.00 dollars per reel.
That's All Folks!!!!
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted May 21, 2014 12:38 PM
I never did bother to reply to Paul, so here goes ...
I was actually working on getting these reels from the lady before I started re-selling for Fred. She's just a very slow going person, but that's her own right. It's too bad that I couldn't have been selling those reels at an earlier time. There's no way I could personally fore-see the whole GWTW debacle with those reels.
However, there are always those jerks out there that, lets say, I didn't get these reels from her until 2015 ...
You just know that even at that late of date, there would be a yes, JERK, out there saying "Aha! Fred's reels have finally popped up!"
So, I'm in a no win scenario, as long as I have these reels. Oh well, I'm a big boy, I can take it.
and Bill, once again I must say, that these reels (now 16 remaining) are not now, nor have ever been, Fred's reels. I've never had ANY separate reels from Fred without film, except for those GWTW reels that were damaged and thrown away, simple as that. You may believe what you wish.
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Michael O'Regan
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From: Essex, UK
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted May 21, 2014 12:48 PM
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...and Bill, once again I must say, that these reels (now 16 remaining) are not now, nor have ever been, Fred's reels. I've never had ANY separate reels from Fred without film, except for those GWTW reels that were damaged and thrown away, simple as that. You may believe what you wish.
Osi,
Let me firstly just say I'm not assuming that these reels you're selling are or were Freds.
However, I must ask, what happened to all the other reels on which you received film (other than GWTW) from Fred? He specified that he never sent you film on anything other than reels (mostly, if not all, Elmo reels). But you sold a lot of those films "cored".
So you mentioned that two reels were damaged in the GWTW delivery. What happened to all the rest?
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted May 21, 2014 01:06 PM
Each and every film/feature that I sold for Fred, was sold on the very reels that he sent them on. Every film that was sold without reels, were from other people. I believe I stated it before, but, with all the people (the number of people) that I was selling for, there were some features that were repeats, (Fred owned them as well as the other folks that I sold for and in some cases, still sell for).
I largely sold Fred's films off of ebay, except in the case of a high price item that I would never get a price that Fred wanted, from a private seller.
I like you all but lets face it, most of us do not want to pay what we would as a general rule, pay for a major dollar item. For instance, how often have you seen anyone selling a STAR WARS print for 1,000.00 on here? Quite rare, which is why for the big dollar items, the smart seller goes to ebay ect. Hence, Fred's GWTW print going on ebay. I believe that was the only print of Fred's that I sold on ebay. The rest went to private sales off of ebay.
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