From: Dan Maguire (dmaguire@mchsi.com)
Date: Sat Feb 18 2006 - 15:16:08 PST
Was that deal "outside the box?" He was the high bidder but didn't meet
Unrelated... I always thought that Ebay warned against outside deals
BR,
Arthur Bloom wrote:
> Yup. Ebay expressly warns about trying to make a deal outside the box. This
reserve. The seller and he (i.e., the winner) reached a satisfactory
price. Isn't that the way it is supposed to go? I thought so but now
am not so sure.
because they want to profit from every sales transaction in the galaxy.
Dan
Auburn, IN
> is probably why.
>
> apb
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <MPop5555@aol.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 7:38 AM
> Subject: [MV] Jeeps near Petersburg, VA
>
>
> | Anyone deal with a guy by the name of Nick who has a bunch of Jeeps in
> | Petersburg, VA? Well, I have and I never will again!
> |
> | Recently, he posted an M38A1/CJ5 on EBay. I bid on it and although the
> | reserve wasn't met, I was the high bidder. I made an offer and we agreed
> on a
> | price for a running Jeep with mostly everything intact. All he said he
> wanted to
> | remove were the seats and put in different ones.
> |
> | Well, I drove 200 miles out of my way in my Unimog, hauling a 30' trailer
> and
> | an M105A1 to pick up the M38A1. When I got there, the Jeep had been
> stripped
> | of just about any useful part off of the tub, including the windshield
> (which
> | was clearly visible in the EBay auction). Not only that but the motor was
> | NOT running! It was missing the starter, fan, belts, air cleaner housing,
> and a
> | bunch of other stuff.
> |
> | This idiot then tried to convince me that the Jeep ran! He gave me his
> | personal guarantee that it ran! (without major components) When I asked
> him to
> | knock the price down because the Jeep obviously did not run when I came to
> see
> | it, he said he was already taking a beating since he paid too much for it
> | himself.
> |
> | This idiot tried to pull a fast one so I thought I would warn the MV
> | community about him.
> |
> | Thanks for the bandwidth,
> |
> | Mike Pop
> | 1987 Unimog U1300L
> | 1969 Unimog S404.1
> | 1952 M38A1
> | 1966 German Winch Trailer
> | 1970 M105A2 Unimog Camper
> | 1970 M127 Semi Trailer
> | Eureka, NV
> | Spring Lake, NJ
> |
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