It is honestly a shame you now know the original price as it puts a dark cloud on the situation. I am certainly not trying to persuade you to buy it (as I do think it is a bit high) I don't think that selling price is accurate. The "going price", meaning discounted street price for a MM16 at the beginning of 2004 was $1700 BUT that was still the 12.5" resaw with the 3.6hp motor, the very end of production for that iteration. Later in 2004 they moved to the 14" resaw with the current 4.8hp motor and shortly after that they moved to the current 16"/4.8hp motor. I would verify that it is not the tweener 14" resaw model but if it is the current model he didn't get it for $1700 even in 2005. I could track down the going price in that era for the current model and I am happy to try BUT only if you actually care, in other words I ain't doin' it just to satisfy my curiosity!
Edit #1 Did some digging, I can't help it... The current 16" resaw MM16 first landed on our shores in March of 2005.
Edit #2 OK OK I lied, I apparently WILL do it just for my curiosity Fall 2005 list price for the 16"/4.8hp MM16 was $2,395
Edit #3 OK, yes I am OCD and yes I admit to having things filed away from AWFS in Vegas from 2005... don't judge me, you don't know me... Show sale price on their flyer for the new improved world beatin' (my words) MM16 was $2,095 it doesn't list any extras but they did tend to throw in the mobility kit BUT I don't know if they did at the "show special" and I don't know how long they carried that price for.
Edit #4 I got all excited seeing all the old literature and started going through the bag of goodies, when I reached the bottom there were tons of business cards and while going through them I found a MM card with my note that read they would include the mobility kit and three blades with the sale price on their bandsaws so that would have been $2095 plus freight for the MM16, 3 blades and the mobility kit at least at the time of the AWFS, the flyer did say you did not have to attend the show but order by the end of the show, whether that was hard and fast I don't know. In the end I think a good guess if he bought the saw in late 2005 or early 2006 it was a 16" resaw machine and he probably paid $2,400 - $2,500 shipped to his house PLUS sales tax since MM had a business nexus there at the time.
Last edited by Van Huskey; 04-18-2012 at 4:34 PM.
Of all the laws Brandolini's may be the most universally true.
Deep thought for the day:
Your bandsaw weighs more when you leave the spring compressed instead of relieving the tension.