Has the market for average Parkers bottomed???

[todd allen]

There is some good news, amidst all of this doom and gloom;
68 Ford Mustangs driven in a movie by Steve McQueen are still fetching good prices. So are Brando Rolex watches.
If you have any of these items in your collection, you're doing okay.

[Dean Romig]

No.... They are buying all the guns they can at depressed prices, so they are effectively supporting a down market





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[Big D]

Dean's mother's strategy was premiered by the Zippo lighter Company, as I understand it. When the lighters were first introduced at something like $.50, they were considered cheap, and poorly made. Doubled the price, and the rest is history. I suspect any of us who were (are) smokers had a Zippo at some point

[charlie cleveland]

i still got my zippo lighter it would light under extreme conditions if you kept her filled up with fluid and flint...burnt my leg a few times with over filling that zippo and fluid leaking out of it on my leg...but heh aint nothing perfect not even a parker...charlie

[Phil Yearout]

I've done that too Charlie; it huts like heck! I carry mine every day but it might be a week or more between uses. I finally put a butane conversion cartridge in mine because I was tired of it always being out of fluid every time I went to use it.

[Big D]

What was the brand of handwarmer that used the same fluid, and would burn your thigh like crazy when put in your pocket improperly?

[Eric Estes]

Jon-E handwarmer

[Phil Yearout]

I think Zippo actually made some of them too. Mine is marked Peterson's.

[Alfred Greeson]

You guys are great, over the last two days I have read these posts while sweating out three real estate deals, all going in different directions. Wound up laughing at the zippo lighter and the one still in my tackle box and feel much better about my Parkers. Thanks for the therapy!

[Richard Flanders]

Where do we send the therapy bill Alfred !?