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JAL3

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As the packaging says, this is one of the more unique boost gliders you are likely to encounter. A nice looking rocket in USAF livery takes to the sky on 18mm power. Along for the ride, it brings two planes. In this case, the two planes are an American Corsair and a Japanese Zero. At apogee, the planes detach and glide back to earth while the booster comes down with a chute. Squirrel Works still makes and sells additional glider pairs.

I am asking $30


This kit is offered for sale in an effort to liquidate my collection of kits and is being offered via cross postings on The Rocketry Forum and Ye Olde Rocket Forum. The price indicated is what I have determined by looking for evidence of similar sales but, admittedly, might reflect a poor judgement on my part. I'm just doing the best that I can. The price does NOT include shipping. Interested persons are invited to contact me via PM and I will calculate the shipping. Payment is expected by means of PayPal, Zelle or Venmo. My intention is to make shipments twice per week after confirming receipt of funds. I will try to give the most accurate descriptions I am able to provide and will happily answer any specific questions either by PM or within the post thread.

I'm trying to be fair and honor a "first come, first serve" precedence when dealing with inquiries. That invovles juggling messages I see while at work at the hospital coming from both TRF and YORF. That started out easy but got more complicated as there were more and more rockets listed. I made some mistakes and for that I am sorry.

I also don't mind holding rockets as you wait for more to become available. This does help with shipping costs and nobody has been more horrified than I over the current postal rates. That said, I am going to have to change one thing. I am only going to set aside "sold" rockets. I tried it the other way and a few times I was left in the lurch when others were interested in a rocket. That was only a mild annoyance. What I cannot tolerate is the mistakes that I made in selling something that had been promised. With my faulty memory and hectic schedule, the only way to prevent this when so many rockets are up for sale (with hundreds more to come) is to strictly segregate the sold stuff from the unsold stuff. A hold with an intent to buy now gets 24 hours, barring exigent circumstances, after that, it's back on the market.


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For some of my listings, I get no interest at all. For others, I get lots and lots of PMs from people who want to purchase. I go to the oldest first, calculate the shipping and let the prospective buyer know the total. Sometimes the shipping is ok. Sometimes the buyer doesn't think it's worth it and backs out. I then go to the next in line, time wise.

WHen I get a serious inquiry, I mark the thread as "pending" so as to not waste people's time sending messages. If it sells, I make a post to that effect and report the thread to have the tag changed.

In this case, I have figured the shipping price and sent the total to the interested person. This one is on YORF as about 15% have been. I know from experience that he only checks his messages once per day so I don't expect to hear back from him until tomorrow afternoon. In the meantime, this rocket has only had one other person express a desire.


The long and short of it is that there has problem this time around. As I mentioned, there has only been one other person interested in this rocket and I have communicated the situation to him. Sometimes, though, that is not the case. I have to juggle many inquiries on 2 different sites. It gets more confusing then. I try to slow things down by letting people know that there is a sale pending.
 
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