Paging the amateur car mechanics

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260352168766

And the first bidder has FB of 1...

Why do I think this is going to bring out every sodding timewaster on
eBay?

 

This is particularly interesting:

http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidderProfile&mode=1&item=2
60352168766&aid=1&eu=cWj9f5uTOHU5wEUhyfqF30krehSDxogQ&view=NONE&ssPageNa
me=PageBidderProfileViewBids_None_ViewLink

126 bids on 61 items in the last 30 days. Mostly, I'd assume, buggered
cars.

I have selling cars on eBay.

I've made the mistake in the past of putting my mobile number on the
advert, too, and had a string of calls from every Tariq, Ali and Raj
asking me 'how much for cash, innit'.

 

You don't need to put your number on the ad. Any buyer can request full
details of the seller, including contact details. Selling my old pug on
ebay was a hideous experience, only justified by the price it sold at.

 

He contacted me. I called him. He's now blocked and his bid removed.
Tosser.

 

Only when the deal is done, I think.

 

Did he have anything to say?

 

Not yet.

 

**** me, you took some care over that car...

FWIW, I've always been surprised by what I get for ebay cars and had little
hassle...

 

Eugh, it's not going to sell with a 250N "wet dream" in the background.

 

Because that happens every time someone tries to sell a cheap car on
fleabay?

 

If only.

I had 10 days of canvassers, all of whom had got my mobile number by
requesting seller details.

 

Try selling a 106 GTi on there, that needs a bit of work.

You get every scrote this side of the equator emailing with questions like
'does it run?', when the auction clearly states it doesn't, and 'how much
for cash, bruv?'... I mean, what else did they expect you to accept on an
auction that states 'cash on collection'?

And then there's the ones that offer little more than scrap money with a
longwinded explanation as to why it is they're doing you a favour by
offering you **** all for it.

If you really want to attract complete tossers, advertise on Gumtree.

You get a different class of timewasting fuckface, on there, in spades.

 

I've had one or two bargains off there myself in the past, but that was
before it became really well known.

To be fair, it does seem to be the vehicles bit which attracts the most
idiots.

I sold a keyboard via there a while back, and whilst I had one or two
dreamers enquire about it, one guy came through without any messing and
bought it.

 

Quite. Just about every call was the same...

"How much do you want for it?"
"I haven't got a clue. That's why it's an auction. Make me an offer. By
bidding on ebay. Or **** off."

As it was I got 6 times what I expected to, which was nice.

 

A-men to the power of a lot. NEVER sell a phone on Ebay, you'll get more
out of it by just twatting it with a hammer as by the time it actually
sells, on the 47th re-listing, you'll have aged, greyed, and it will now be
3 years out of date and such only worth a fiver.

As for cars on Ebay, never tried that. I was planning to put an aurtion on
there to act as more of an ad for my Clio V6, but instead someone PM'd me on
the owners forum, before I'd put up a for sale ad and just said something
along the lines of - "I've heard you might be selling, and that it's a
minter - I'm fed up of looking at thrashed, crashed and tatty heaps of shit,
assuming yours is as good as I hear, would you take £11.5k for cash as soon
as possible". Too right I would, seeing as it was near due a service (the
nearest specialist was 280 miles away and the general experience of owners
was V6 + dealer = inflated service cost + repairs), and I'd bought it 12
months previous with 22k on for £11.8k and it now had 33k on it.

That, and the quick, easy sale of the Clio F1 that followed it (less
successful, bought for £13k from Honda dealer, owned for 4 months,
unexpectedly only driven for 2, the loss of legs use thing put an end to
driving, sold for £11.5k) is my entire wheeler dealering experience - and
here with a reasonably successful record is where it ends heh. I was a bit
mugged by personal rhings on the F1, but got top private price from the
first phone call, from a 19 year old kid from Swansea, who paid cash, and
£1,400 for his insurance, with a £1,500 excess...

 

I've just sat here for 5 minutes looking at the headers and thinking
to myself that there's something missing..

 

Current high bidder has been in touch, sounds coherent and completely
serious, and asked me that if anyone was making an offer and tempting
me to put a BIN on it, to let him know. Decent FB, too.

The worry is that he'll be outbid at the last minute by another
tosser.

Anyone care to guess what it might go for, in the end? I would have
happily taken a grand for it, but I suspect it might sell for more
than that, given that there are moe than a dozen watchers and it's had
over 170 hits already.

 

It'll be OK, their shipping company will pick it up and pay for it by
cheque.

169 views from UKRM? My experience with flogging the A8 after it had
developed the slow water leak was that the best "will you take cash now"
offer was more than a hundred quid less than the final price, and most
were off by several hundreds, lowest one by over 400 quid and actually
less than the starting price...

 

Heh. I've just had a Mancunian offering to come down tomorrow "with
cash". I mean, what do these people think I want? Pickled beetroot.

I'd be happy with £800, which is where the bidding is right now, but I
am now thinking it'll hit £1200+.

I did ponder having it fixed (again) but it makes no financial sense.
And the sodding thing will only go bang again. We all know the laws
regarding Money Pit vehicles. The moment heavy expenditure looms, you
jettison the sodding thing because...

....you know that £500, £1000, £1500, whatever it is that will
supposedly get it back to superb running order? It never, ever *ever*
works out that way.

 

Kauri shells or dodgy cheques, I assume. I'm asking myself that same
question every time I get one of those emails, too.

Not bad, take as much as you can.

*ding*