Alan,
Did you try and contact the next highest bidder on the TR4? It should have
been only
$100 or so lower. I've only sold one car on eBay, an MG parts car that the guy
who
bought it drove clear from New York to pick up, but I have sold a lot of
Triumph and MG
parts (maybe 25 or 30 auctions this year) and I have always been paid for them
(even when
people had 0 feedback) and pretty much without fail I have sold them for a lot
more than
I had in to them and many times for several times what I had been asking
(unsuccessfully)
for them at swap meets. I've probably cleared about $3,000 this year, not a lot
but
enough so that I am using the proceeds to finance my MGB V8 project (I've
purchased the
car, engine, transmission as well as some misc. parts all on eBay) and my wife
is saying
to me that I should buy more parts! I've also bought a lot and been more than
satisfied
with price and quality. Cars are tough because they are hard ship. The two
that I have
bought on eBay I went and picked up myself with cash on hand. Better luck next
time.
Kevin Brown '74 TR6 '54 MGTF 1500, '78 MGB V8
Odessa, MO
eBay id: hzl6cm
alan jones wrote:
> Fair play on eBay? Dream on.
> While I sympathize with the buyer of the busted starter, consider
>this; I
> placed a 76 Jaguar Coupe and a 66 Tr4A on eBay last week and "sold" them
> both.
>
> The winning bidder of the Jag
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=497548656
>
> checked on shipping to New Jersey and informed me that he had changed his
> mind. Then I think his computer must have broken.
> Ebay told me that they could not reveal the other bidders as I had
>checked
> the "private auction" box by mistake. (It made sense to me at the time as I
> wasn't commercial.)
> " What about the binding contract "rhetoric," I asked. Then I think
>their
> computer broke also...
>
> The Triumph brought a whopping $6k, which was more than it was worth.
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=497661113
>
> Now this bidder's Nintendo must have been broken in addition to their
> computer going wonky when they had finished their evening's entertainment.
> My remedies: post a negative feedback? Please! The sunglasses next
>to a
> bidder mean he's changed his id within the last 30 days, a practice which
> eBay endorse. In fact they even mention that "multiple identities," are
> permissible.
> I'll send the "bidder"a nasty letter then! Ebay provided an incomplete
> address, a non-existant name, and a bad phone #.
> The gentleman with the starter is probably sick of hearing the phrase
> "caveat emptor" but does anyone know the latin for "seller."
>
>
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