Price is a reflection of scarcity as well.
How many HEP TAFs are for sale at this moment?

ONE (I presume)

Price @ $10,500 doesn't even reflect how unobtanium this specific item is at this moment, imo.
-mof

Seriously? We got ourselves a mind-reader here.

What each one of us reads into the "tone" of an email is completely invented with the imagination and is subjective, since we can't hear the seller or buyer speak these words or see their body language to even get a qualified good guess...

I read it 3x over just to be sure, and I didn't see "any punches thrown" objectively by the seller. I know the seller personally, so I hear his voice when I read it, and I know how helpful he often is, so I am imagining a helpful to the point tone.

People get to pick and choose if/when they react to others -- I'd say the worst place to gamble with reacting -- is in email/text. So much is left to your subjective feelings that day. I recommend saving reactions to phone conversations where you can at least hear the tone, or better yet -- in person...

Good day sirs.
-mof

This is a good idea for a restorer, since a restorer can do a wide range of work on a machine. The initial buyer knows what he's getting since he's watching the pic-stream from afar and enjoying the process, but what happens when the pin changes hands once or twice? Or the pics change location on the server?

50/100/200 hours are different levels of service and will be priced/valued differently. It would make sense for future buyers/sellers to have access to itemized work that was done whether it's a checklist, or a picture book. I would prefer an itemized checklist included with my machine, since it travels better than "online pics" which may or may not be there in 10 years.

-mof