Yup if your lucky you get the price of the parts on the car, not including much value for the car.
100% right you never get someone happy to pay for the time to put all these things together into a running motor, but you also never get any money for taking it all apart either, and if you do get near a bare shell you end up almost giving it away.
another reason to sell complete for me, never get enough money extra breaking to pay your time to break/reply to PMs/Package/Post/Correspond with buyer/Sort issues
Phil