The guy who sold ABC the airplane for LOST made $150k on the deal

[ThePresence]

I'm in the wrong business.

Thompson's Aviation bought N783DL for $50,000.
ABC/Touchstone purchased it for about $200,000, not including shipping to Hawaii.

:Q

 

[ponyo]

ABC got a deal. 150k is pocket change.

 

[notfred]

Gee, who'd have thought you could make $150k selling commercial aircraft. :roll:

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: notfred
Gee, who'd have thought you could make $150k selling commercial aircraft. :roll:

Who woulda thought you can buy commercial aircraft for 50k? Not me. Obviously it was a pile of junk. He made 150k selling a pile of crap.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Hooray capitalism! 🙂

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: notfred
Gee, who'd have thought you could make $150k selling commercial aircraft. :roll:

Who woulda thought you can buy commercial aircraft for 50k? Not me. Obviously it was a pile of junk. He made 150k selling a pile of crap.

Except that, apparently, for less than the cost of throwing it on a boat and shipping it to Hawaii, it could've been airworthy and FLOWN that. Unfit for commercial service and unflyable are two VERY different things for planes of this size. The thing might not pressurize, it might not have functional air-handling systems, it might look like crap, but there's a lot of "extra stuff" on a commercial airliner that just plain doesn't make a difference when you're looking at flyability.

 

[TheTony]

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: notfred
Gee, who'd have thought you could make $150k selling commercial aircraft. :roll:

Who woulda thought you can buy commercial aircraft for 50k? Not me. Obviously it was a pile of junk. He made 150k selling a pile of crap.

"I don't know what they paid to ship it, but they might have saved money flying it there first," he said.

 

[ultimatebob]

He should have sold a bunch of pies in batches of 20 instead. That seems to be where the best profit margin is. 🙂

 

[Noirish]

do you have the farsight to buy it for $50k?

 

[BatmanNate]

I'm sure that's nothing in terms of the amount of money ABC's pulled in from marketing during a show with ratings like LOST.

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: Noirish
do you have the farsight to buy it for $50k?

And don't forget to add in the cost of storage and maintenance.