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Re: Me whining about ebay for a change

To: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>, "mgs@autox.team.net" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Me whining about ebay for a change
From: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 18:00:40 -0600
Maybe this is how it works when you are a seller.

But the few items (used car parts) I watched and wanted to buy on Ebay 
ended up selling near or more than the cost for new ones! I was so 
disgusted the last time that I gave up on Ebay. But looking recently at 
cars, I've noticed quite a bit of bidding on several old MGB rust buckets. 
Maybe I'll put my 71 BGT up for auction - under normal circumstances, I 
don't think I could sell it even though its in great mechanical shape.

David
67 BGT
71 BGT


At 07:24 PM 9/5/2000 -0400, Trevor Boicey wrote:
>   Normally I love ebay, but this week I have some
>whining to do...
>
>   How come everybody ELSE gets huge bucks for their
>ebay stuff, but I can't get good bids on decent stuff?
>
>   This is the second time I've put this nice MGB rear
>bumper up, and I can't get $49 including overriders:
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=426025267
>
>   Ok, some of the other stuff I have right now is kind
>of junky, but I've seen worse.
>
>   I have this MG B-series 1500 block in rebuildable shape I
>can't get any interest in:
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=424232360
>
>   ...if I can't get a bid at all it's free to anyone who
>wants it. (not that $25 isn't more or less free!)
>
>   A workable midget fender for less than a tenner?
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=424238594
>
>   ...I think I spent too much time being honest with
>the pictures that I made it look worse than it really
>is.
>
>   Why is it when I am bidding for junk on ebay it
>gets bid up to almost new prices, but people won't help
>me clean my basement. ;>
>
>--
>Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
>Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
>ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
>"Toaster, toothbrush, comb. I just want to go home." - Ajax


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