Stripping Machines of bits?

[Keith 66]

Over the last few weeks i have seen several threads referencing lathes with missing gap pieces & you can probably explain most of these through absent mindedness or ignorance on the part of people clearing workshops.
But lately i have seen a number of adverts advertising Lathes & stating accessories to be sold separately. A Harrison L5 on fb marketplace for instance, looks to be in good clean condition & up for about £1350, has what is obviously all its original equipment yet states Bare machine only all accesories sold separately!
I know this has always gone on with dealers but to me it just smacks of blatant profiteering & personally if i went to look at a machine & the seller said that i would walk away.
In the past i have sold a few machines & always found that selling them fully tooled up they went for top dollar.
In my shed sits my Harrison 140 fully tooled with 3 & 4 jaw chucks, faceplates, milling table, steadies choice of toolposts, collets sets, changewheels, right down to the manual & original factory test chart, I doubt i will every use half of it but its there if & when i need it!
Some years back i sold a Bantam 800 to a guy from Farnborough he had been searching for a machine with tooling for two years without success, the minute he walked in the door & saw it he just said "I'll have it" didnt even make an offer.
To me it kind of seems wrong to strip it & sell it all off separately.
Am i becoming a soft old ****e in my old age?

 

[Pete.]

Nothing you can do about it except tell them to jog on.

 

[Fastdruid]

The issue as ever is that it'll sell for more sold individually.

When I bought my L5, I could have got my money back (and then some) just by re-selling all the bits that came with it. When it eventually comes to the time to sell I'd rather sell it "as is" though.

 

[MattH]

There are two types of people in this world.

1, The type that values money over everything else.
2, Those that don't.

I pride myself on being the later.

 

[Kayos]

Business is business, I understand the frustration of the hobbyist wanting a complete set up but the dealer is doing it to make money.

Id rather buy or sell a hobby machine complete but if I was selling to a business it would be for maximum profit

 

[Maker]

I wouldn't sell my lathe accessories separately, they've been with it over sixty years and it just feels wrong to sell them off, especially as whoever buys the lathe will want the accessories.

Does a lathe sold separately from it's accessories sell for significantly more than a complete thing with all the bits? I know things like traveling steadies go for silly money but once it's just a bare lathe with no chucks or anything, it'll have to be cheap to sell I think.