Why are many used lathes without tooling?

Some sellers have no idea that the tooling is valuable at all, my lathe ended up on Ebay just because it was too heavy to get in a skip with the rest of the contents of their late fathers sheds!

Bernard
 
I have also been to estate auctions where the auctioneers don't have a clue what they are selling and just throw stuff in boxes. Sometimes I have been lucky and purchased some mixed boxes of stuff with some lathe tooling for little money. Unfortunately someone else ended up with the lathe without some of the tooling. I also believe some of these machines come out of schools that eliminated or reduced their shop classes and the easier to carry small items get pilfered before the major machines get auctioned or sold. There are also the estate sales where families sell off what they can. Small easy to carry high value items go first. The stripped major machines get sold later.
 
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