Oh gawd! I think I might find about 3 bits that I actually need among all that lot. The rest would go to the Lifeline Shop at the local tip. Apart from the rubber snorkels, nothing much else catches my eye.
Looks more like a case of someone wanting to get paid by someone else to clean out their shed for them. LOL!
Lazy and time poor sellers, what more can you say?
I saw a similar ad on ebay recently. In amongst the tangled pile of junk I spotted a couple of brand new Briggs and Stratton items. I asked the seller if he would mind selling those couple of items separately. He replied with an abrupt "no", but suggested I should buy the lot, keep the two parts I need, then sell the rest on ebay and make a tidy profit! We can but laugh. Apart from the two good items, the rest was just a tangled pile of rust and oil that would have taken me over a decade to sort through. I think this seller had some ridiculous figure, like $3000 on what is essentially an expensive "clean up" operation.
On a side track, I recall one very dodgy buyer who once frequented farm auctions in my area. He would find something of value and then look for a nearby pile of worthless junk. When he thought nobody was looking he would hide the valuable item under the pile of worthless junk so that it could not be seen. The auction would come to this pile and he would bid $2. Nobody else would be interested so he would get it for $2. The auctioneer would be no sooner walking to the next pile and he would pull his item out from under the junk and walk away to pay for it. Of course he would leave behind the pile of junk for somebody else to clean up. There are sharks and scoundrels born every minute, it seems.
