MHZ Micro Iceburg

[midnightsabotage]

Wish I had enough funds right now. Don't get paid until next Thursday though. I almost sent an offer but glad I checked my account at the last minute

If you'd be interested in any trades, feel free to send me a pm with things you might be looking for. I don't have a lot of boat stuff, but I'm stacked with plane items & random outrunner motors and non-watercooled esc's and such. Just throwing it out there. I could mix 30 or 40 cash in with some kind of trade, but that's about it. I know you're focusing on your crawler and all, but it's worth a shot :p
-Jeff

[mschaffer66]

I'm getting a feeling it will be here when you are ready...lol

[midnightsabotage]

PM sent agreeing to $80 asking price with regular goods paypal payment.

Please send paypal address & let me know how soon you can ship if I pay tonight.
Thanks!
-Jeff

[midnightsabotage]

Payment sent, thank you very much

-Jeff

[tagasagwan]

Hi Mike,

Is this Really sold? I thought you agreed to my offer? I'm just waiting for your shipping quote and paypal info since last week. I even sent you a follow-up PM yesterday regarding this matter. Please verify your inbox! Thanks!

Stephen

[midnightsabotage]

I never heard anything from the seller about another offer, thought I was the only one, I'm sorry - sent payment about 4 hours ago though.

I did express interest as soon as he lowered his asking price, perhaps my intent to buy at his asking price was before your offer?
I feel bad now, but I definitely was looking to buy this a while ago.
Hope there are no hard feelings!
-Jeff

[tagasagwan]

Hi Jeff,

First of all, Pls. don't feel bad! I don't have any hard feelings towards you or Mike or anybody. It's perfectly okay! Actually my first offer was on Oct 29 in behalf of a friend which is 3 days after yours, It was made through PM. I asked Mike if he's willing to ship it to The Philippines and if he's willing to accept $75 plus the shipping cost. He replied on Oct 31 and He said okay as long as I pay as Gift and shoulder the shipping cost. Which is actually my offer. Also on Oct 31. I replied and asked for for the shipping cost and gave him the shipping info. I didn't received a reply so I Pm'd him yesterday Nov. 3 and told him that my friend changed his mind so, instead I will be the one who's going to buy it. I only received one reply from Mike and that was on Oct 31. I'm just telling you the story.

Please don't get me wrong because I wrote my short story about the exchange of PM's. Everything is fine and again I have nothing against anybody. I'm happy for mike's sale and I'm glad you get the iceberg. Besides, I expressed my intentions through PM so it doesn't count. We're all boaters and I'm always happy when my fellow boaters are enjoying the hobby. That's why I've been promoting the hobby here in the Philippines. There's very few boaters here so every time there's a newbie here, I'm always willing to help.

Let's enjoy this hobby that we all love so much! (As long as it's not on my wife's radar! Hahaha!)

Your friend,

Stephen

[midnightsabotage]

Oh, I'm so glad :)

I just started monkeying around with boats in July of this year, so I'm quite a newbie. Just diving in head first, that's for sure.
I would have felt bad if I had yanked this one out from under you though!

I have too many projects already, yet can't resist getting new ones. Now I gotta find some electronics for it somewhere without breaking the bank, that might be tough.

All the best to you & good luck hiding it all from the wife, lol. If you think she's close to figuring things out, you might need to distract her with some new & shiny piece of jewelry instead of buying that next toy Should hold her off for a while!
-Jeff

[tagasagwan]

Hi Jeff,

She actually asked me this morning for a new set of shinny jewelry for Christmas. It will cost me a lot for sure coming December. hehehe

[midnightsabotage]

Well hopefully she'll get you a new toy for the holidays in return then!
*crosses fingers*

[mschaffer66]

Uh oh, I think I screwed up here somewhere.

Stephen - I thought I sent you a PM about this. I must have closed the window without sending it. While I was taking the boat to the USPS and FedEx store to get actual quotes for shipping(I didn't want to do online, I wanted a real in person firm quote) someone at the post office started telling about all the possible problems with shipping something out of the country, not knowing if it ever gets there, no proof for paypal, yada yada yada. Also shipping was going to be stupid expensive. I had it packed VERY well in a large box since its such a small light weight hull and it was going half way around the world. Then after I got back with the quote, I might have been off by a day or so, I see that now its you wanting to buy and not your friend. Thats when I sent you a PM, or so I thought I did. There was just way too many things that were making me uncomfortable about the thing. And don't take this the wrong way, you may well be the best guy in the world, even far better than me, but I don't know you and you aren't on US soil, and Paypal has one hell of a bad record for screwing over sellers....

I'm sorry if I screwed this up, but I was just kinda getting a bad feeling and its my fault for not making sure you knew where we stood. Even just now I typed half of this out then my boss interrupted me and I forgot about it until I went to close the window

[tagasagwan]

No worries Mike! We all get busy and sometimes forget the things we need to do. Like what I said earlier, I have no hard feelings. I also understand that it's a hassle shipping overseas. I appreciate that you at least considered shipping it to me and you even made an effort of bring it to the post office for a shipping quote. I bought a lot of things from U.S. , Europe and China. So far so good! Everything arrived in good condition. Well, who know's, in the future we still might be able to make a deal on something.

[tagasagwan]

Well hopefully she'll get you a new toy for the holidays in return then!
*crosses fingers*

well, she actually said she'll get me a new boat! A new or used but modified geico will be great! Hahaha!

[midnightsabotage]

Received the boat today (wow, fast!) and it looks good. There's just the start of a very small crack in the deck that I'll have to reinforce & then that hole in the hatch to patch, oh, and the relocation of the stuffing tubes. Came just as described & pictured! Should be real quick to be ready for paint.

I'll probably take forever and try to line up and get all the hardware mocked-up before paint though. Motor mounts will be the hardest part I bet. I've got a pair of 24mm inrunners that I'd like to use if I can figure out watercooling for them. I'll try to start a build thread on it when it gets going.

Thanks for a fast & easy transaction,
-Jeff

[mschaffer66]

Thank you for the feed back :)

Good luck with the build and PLEASE! do a build thread for it. I wanna see what that little monster does.

Mike