Horn Cast Karma

I received a NOS (New Old Stock) today from an Ebay auction I won last week. Having a brand new unpainted horn cast is more than I had hoped for when I started searching for a replacement for the one that had been cut off in the P conversion.

Missing Horn Cast

I had a few people contact me with options. One person had a Super he was parting out, but I never could make one on one contact with him. 

Another person contacted me saying he had a NOS horn cast but was out of town. When he returned, he discovered he had sold/given it to someone a few years ago. That person wanted $100 for the horn cast. 

At this time someone posted a garage sale of misc items which included a horn cast of unknown model. I took a gamble and paid for it, but it turns out it is for a small frame Vespa. 

So I contacted the person who had given away the earlier horn cast and asked him to contact his friend who wanted $100 for confirmation on that horn cast. 

I then was looking on Ebay under a general Vespa search and found the NOS Horn cast there. It was in Denmark and the label confirmed it was the right one. The bid was at about $10 when I bid, so I put in $50 with about 36 hours left in the auction. I became the highest bidder at $11.50. But then I was outbid up to $51. So I then waited until the auction had 20 seconds to go and I put in a bid of $80. I ended up winning the bid at $54 plus $15 shipping. 

NOS Horn Cast

So I got it cheaper than the person wanting to charge $100, though I was willing to pay more if that is what it took to get the right part. If he has said $50, I would of not been looking on Ebay or other sellers in the first place while waiting for responses.

Sometimes karma works in the right direction.