Platonic Solid
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It's the way eBay's Automatic bidding system works. You (can) bid your maximum acceptable price and the eBay Automatic Bidding system will automatically outbid lower bidders on your behalf.
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It's the way eBay's Automatic bidding system works. You (can) bid your maximum acceptable price and the eBay Automatic Bidding system will automatically outbid lower bidders on your behalf.
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Platonic Solid
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I have a thought. If I assume this
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$1,000 POS is a legitimate (non-shill bidder) sale (Yeah, I know. That's a stretch). It is possible that he was really only interested in purchasing the VIN#. As long as you have a VIN#, you can pretty much build a classic almost entirely of repro parts, or a collection of junk car parts, and still register, insure and/or sell it as a classic.
FWIW, the buyer who purchased that (above), also purchased this
for a much more realistic $576.
And in turn sold this
for $5,000.
(Above pictures are linked to their respective eBay pages)
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$1,000 POS is a legitimate (non-shill bidder) sale (Yeah, I know. That's a stretch). It is possible that he was really only interested in purchasing the VIN#. As long as you have a VIN#, you can pretty much build a classic almost entirely of repro parts, or a collection of junk car parts, and still register, insure and/or sell it as a classic.
FWIW, the buyer who purchased that (above), also purchased this
for a much more realistic $576.
And in turn sold this
for $5,000.
(Above pictures are linked to their respective eBay pages)
If you can't be bothered to post a link, most people won't be bothered to go to eBay just to search for your name and auction.
$99 is not a bad deal for a heap like that. There could be a few parts in there that would cost you more than $100 through a vendor. If you had this car in your yard, what would you sell it for? $10? Put your time and effort into hauling it to the scrap yard to get $20/ton?
But what do I know, that postage stamp-sized picture doesn't tell me much.
$99 is not a bad deal for a heap like that. There could be a few parts in there that would cost you more than $100 through a vendor. If you had this car in your yard, what would you sell it for? $10? Put your time and effort into hauling it to the scrap yard to get $20/ton?
But what do I know, that postage stamp-sized picture doesn't tell me much.
Yeah, I get that too... but looking at the bid history, no one outbid him... it just kept going up, and the last bidder stopped in the $300 range. I am just trying to figure how it went to 1000.
Platonic Solid
Founding Member
The bid history only shows the winning bids, thus the last bidder (bidder #2 probably) bid $994.99, then bidder #1's autobid kicked in and bid $999.99
Platonic Solid
Founding Member
Wow. What can I say other than congrats. I have to ask: Did the winning bidder really purchase it soley on one picture, or did you send him more?
For those who don't feel like doing the whole ebay search thing, here's a link to the auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=10076&viewitem=&item=230161776054
ratio411
Founding Member
The seller is new with no feedback and no history.
BOTH bidders are zeros with no bids, other than 100% bid history with the seller!
Coincidence?
I think not.
Platonic Solid
Founding Member
I agree, but I just don't get it. Who stands to gain anything from a BS auction?
The seller is new with no feedback and no history.
BOTH bidders are zeros with no bids, other than 100% bid history with the seller!
Coincidence?
I think not.
zookeeper
Founding Member
I'd wait to see the check before I got too happy. I've been burned a few times by people who seem to love bidding but forget you have to pay for stuff as well.
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