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Found this on Ebay if anyone is interested(or really wealthy) lol
Victa Catcher

Hi Ted,

Certainly is for the mustang only and not the VC-160 as he's advertised it for as it's the wrong colour for the 160.

I'm sure at his price point though it won't be going anywhere soon.

Bit like the bloke who had the Victa 24 with the motor in bits for $1000. I noticed he had dropped it to $350 a few weeks ago and I mentioned to him that it was still way to high in that condition and I sent him a couple of links to running ones that were much cheaper. I got a tirade of abuse that must have taken him half an hour to type. My reply was short " I suggest you seek medical help" which sent him into another half hours of typing abuse.

Norm, you just got overlook those crazies.

I recently had a fellow's mower in the shop that had a bad engine and quoted him on installing a new engine which was turned down. He seen I had mower of the same size cut for sale and when heard my price he said he was only willing to pay a hundred for an used one. Well the mower was in very good condition and came with a 90 day warranty; well worth the 400 I was asking especially with warranting it for the 90 days. Then he had the nerve to try sale me his non running mower for $400 saying was a good mower. Yea right right good for parts only. This one thing I don't do buy other users equipment especially when I know it condition is a bad as this one.

I have since retire my older mower and started using the mower I had for sale. Now everyone wants it, sorry it my personal mower now as I am parting my older mower as I can get more for it by selling the used parts.

EDIT: New riding 42" cut mowers start at 1200 usd and they are the el cheapo versions.

This is funny. I saw that exact same catcher at the dump shop yesterday. I wondered what it must fit. I bet it is gone today. The catchers were going for $5 each!

Norm, I've come across plenty of loons, especially on ebay. I tried to bargain a guy down from a ridiculous $250 for a vintage item once that was actually worth about $30-$45. He sent me a very long email to inform me about how long he had looked after this item and about how it belonged to a late relative so had high sentimental value for him and he went on and on about the many reasons why he considered it to be very rare. He said any day soon, people would be swarming to get their hands on this rare antique. Next day I found that he had put the price up to $600. Well it sat there on the auction site for months and months. Nobody bought it. Eventually he dropped the price back to $450. I sent him another email to ask if he had changed his mind and would consider my earlier offer of $45, which was a fair price. I wasn't really that interested in the item. Again he ranted and raved that he would soon be fighting off the droves of bidders with sticks once they get wind of his valuable item. The next day I noticed he had changed the price to $800. I gave up trying to tell him otherwise. Obviously he was a tad delusional.

I came across another seller on a NZ auction site some years ago. I can't recall the name of the site, but it allowed sellers to cancel auctions if they did not like the sale price. This guy would put a really low price on the item, so people would bid, then when you would go to checkout he would cancel the auction and re-list the item. This happened a couple of times, so I thought I would PM the seller to ask what is up. I made him a generous offer and he replied that no matter how high I bid he will never sell it to me. I asked "Well why have you got it listed, if you don't want to sell it?" He replied that he is interested in selling it, just not to me. Then he ranted on about Australia being inhabited by extreme Nazi Fascists! I had never met this person in my life. So I asked a friend to enquire about the item. He got told the same story, plus the tirade about Nazis. We could not figure out if he was just trying to get a current market value on his item, or if he just had a few screws loose. We both agreed it was the latter.

Not another joker trying it on! He should be arrested by the white coat brigade along with one grand 24 man and given mental health assessments!
Neither are going to get what they are asking. They would have better luck starting off low. They might be surprised at what equally crazy bidders will drive them up to, particularly that catcher, which I think is quite ugly anyway. I prefer using later thumb latch models on the 70s Mustang and Sports. It upgrades their style!
Besides, he is being misleading by saying VC-160 which don't take thumb latch catchers.

I agree Mowerfreak, bidders can be as crazy as sellers at times. I know it is easy to get caught up in the excitement of an auction, especially if it is something rare that a lot of people are after. But one time I found myself wondering at the logic (and sanity) of the 10 people who bid up an old rubber snorkel to $100 when there was a better quality one for sale as Buy it Now for $15.

I guess old car owners can be just as insane. I recall seeing an old beat up 1974 VW for sale in a house yard for $50,000. Good luck to him!