As a few of you knew, I was buying a used CCI 48x48 HD washout booth. I kind of kept it under wraps as it was a good deal and I didn't want anyone sniping it from me.
$650 + $250 crating, but it was in MN! BUT they have a Dallas shop and would send it there for free and I'd just pay freight from Dallas ($240). They also had the CCI Dip and Strip and would ship it all together for only the price of the tank $250. Well, that could work and I'm about to pull the trigger and the guy called me about that repo I posted about.
He offered to pay me (very small amount) to bring 80% of a shop to Dallas and then I could just pick up my stuff no freight or crate! Hmm... let me do the some numbers.
I did the math and told him to trade me the booth straight up and he couldn't (two different companies) but threw out an offer of $900 to bring the gear up there. So I took it!
Then I realized we were going 25% of the way there for vacation soon!
All in all, I loaded the broke down the gear and loaded the trailer up in a few hours then had 5 hours (one way) past my vacation spot to get to Dallas. I left the cabin at 11am and got back at 11pm and got paid CASH!
Cut the guys a check for $900 (taxes you know
) and came back a LOT lighter than I left and pretty damn happy! Even picked up a couple of quarts of emulsion samples.
So I got a killer deal and it only cost me a few more bucks in gas than it would have normally cost me and took up a day that sucked on the vacation (it rained while I was gone) and I still did some fishing that morning before I left.
