Lizard's Lair

Lizard Printing - Printing Equipment for Sale

Stahl Folder, B-22 4/4/4, Table Feed, Aqua Score on main unit and 8 page unit, excellent shape, one owner, great folder.

Complete scoring and perfing wheels. call David for best price, 619-252-6638.

Tremat feeder head, handles light weight paper great, pharmaceutical type.

Aqua scores on two units!

Original Heidelberg Windmill, 10 x 15. A rare 100 year anniversary edition 1950 model. Excellent shape! Great for diecuuting and numbering!

100 years of quality!

All accessories, including over 100 die cutting dies.

Truflow RIP, Version 4.01, Features and Applications:

Colorgenius LE, Riteinspect, Jobarchiver, Flatworker, SPM, PageOptimizer, Ripviewer, Trapeditor, Windows 2003, Intel Xeon

Screen 40 inch platemaker

Plate Rite 8000, recently refurbished, runs great!

Includes climate control AC with humidifier.

Prism 45 inch Cutter, Extra Blade, Excellent Condition

Call David at 619-252-6638 for the best price on all this equipment. Package deals available.

48 inch Metal Plate Exposure Unit with Vacuum Frame.

Olite AL53/100 Light Exposure Control and Densitometer

Olec L 1252 Photopolymer/Diazo Lamp installed 10-5-07

Need a pallet jack? Call David, 619-252-6638 today!

Happy Birthday Dom!

Peavy Rocks!

Happy Easter!

At the Marriot...
Another beautiful day in paradise.

Super Bowl Party, Spring Valley, California

Woo Hoo!

Big time party in the neighborhood. My best friend Greg brought a keg of Oceanside Ale Work's Pale Ale.

 

That's Greg in the Charger jersey. Greg's a grill  master. I have what's left of a rib. I'm wearing one of my favorite t-shirts, Stone Brewery's Oaked Arrogant Bastard.

There were only 3 serious beer drinkers at the party, Greg, myself, and my brother Dave.

 
We did our best to empty the keg.

I had left my 3 liter bottle of Oaked Arrogant Bastard at my friends  house from the last party. It needs a refill!

Last beer!

Car Prices in a Terrible Economy

Just like the housing market, a glut of inventory has driven prices down. read here 

I've been in the "market" since the 4th of July weekend. That was way before the worst of the economic news for the automobile industry was presented.

I held off buying as car prices kept falling and the economy kept sliding.

Here are my "stats" based on car prices from my blog to the current state, as researched by me at AutoTrader.com.

July 2008

2008 Red Corvette, new $44,153

2008 Red Lexus IS350, new $39,800

2007 Grey Porsche Boxster S, $45,000 (estimate, forgot to list asking price, $41K offer declined)

2006 Black Porsche Boxster S, $38,000 (one of my favorite cars, almost bought it)

2005 Silver Porsche Boxster S, 21K miles, $43,000 

2005 Black Porsche Boxster S, 14K miles, $41,900

2004 Silver Boxster S, Special Edition, 18K miles, $39,900

August 2008

2005 Blue Porsche Boxster, $32,000 (sold price)

2007 Grey Porsche Boxster, 11K miles, $39,999 (still available in November at $35,000)

2006 Silver Porsche Boxster, 12K miles, $37,900

2006 Red Porsche Boxster, 23K miles, $38,000 (I almost bought it, still available, $36,999)

2007 Red Porsche Boxster, 15K miles, $39,850

2006 Red Porsche Cayman S, $41,500

2005 Grey Porsche Boxster S, $36,200

November 2008

2006 Silver Porsche Boxster, 30K miles, $28,500 (almost $10000 off from lower mileage cars in July and August)

2005 Grey Porsche Boxster S, 41K miles, $29,900 (high miles, but $13000 less than in July)

2005 Silver Porsche Boxster, CPO, 47K miles, $29,991 (high miles, but extended warranty)

2006 Black Porsche Boxster, 20K miles, $30,800 ($7000 less than the red one from August)

2006 Silver Porsche Boxster, 26K miles, $30,995 

2005 Blue Porsche Boxster S, 29K miles, $30,995 (in August, I drove a 2005 Boxster S at a local Porsche dealer, they asked $44,900, yeah right - $45K!)

2006 Red Porsche Boxster, 20K miles, $32,995 (almost bought identical looking in August for $38,000)

2007 Blue Porsche Boxster, 31K miles, $30,500 (high miles, but compare to $40K in August)

December 2008

2005 Porsche Boxster, 43K miles - $21,950
2005 Porsche Boxster S, 48K miles - $25,500
2006 Porsche Boxster, 33K miles - $25,900
2006 Porsche Boxster S, 24K miles - $34,500
2006 Porsche Cayman S, 27K miles - $32,900
2007 Porsche Boxster, 31K miles - $30,500
2007 Porsche Boxster S, 29K miles, $36,960
2007 Porsche Cayman, 13K miles - $32,995

2007 Porsche Cayman S, 9K miles - $36,900
2008 Porsche Boxster, 6K miles - $37,950
2008 Porsche Boxster S, 13K miles - $41,895
2008 Porsche Cayman, 8K miles - $39,900
2008 Porsche Cayman S, 14K miles - $45,985

As you can see, prices have dropped $1000's over the last 5 months. You can easily say they've dropped $1000 per month. That is a real cost of depreciation if I would have bought one before. Only the 2006 Boxster S for $38,000 in July still sounded good after a few months.

Also, the prices I listed were on cars I felt were the VERY BEST deals available around the US. The average price of all the cars available were $1000s more. I'm also comparing them to the very best deals now. The facts are that it still a good reason to hold off on car purchase for as long as it's comfortable, you'll save big bucks from depreciation later on.

UPDATE: I have created a new post, Best in Price - Porsche Boxster, to track prices.
Also tracking Cayman prices here.

On a personal note...

Yesterday, I had my iPhone stolen. I was with my son and friend Greg at Captain Keno's in Leucadia for lunch. I left the phone on the table when we left. We traveled only about 10 minutes when we stopped at another place for a beer, Pizza Port in Solana Beach. I realized then I had forgotten my phone. My son called the phone and got it to ring, but no one picked up as it went to voice-mail. We then called the restaurant and had an employee there look for it and it was gone. On a subsequent phone call to my lost phone, it went straight to voice-mail. Which usually means it's been turned off. Losing hope to get my phone returned, I called AT&T to report it missing and they locked the phone down. Dammit!!