Spotted On Ebay Datsun Skyline 1978 Nissan 240Z Mild L28 Triples Lsd

[DAS KAMU]

Now considering offers.

Ricky, since my mate's scrap metal business folded, that C211 has been sitting in his garage pretty much as it left WA.

My car won't be going overseas; no-one is going to shell out $5,000 for a half cut, and it won't be going over complete without any LHD dashes left on the planet to convert it. $1,500 is about the absolute maximum offer for a car that's going to get the chop, and emailing the ebay seller early with an offer below the starting bid is standard practice, which is why your C211 disappeared before you got a chance to bid. Mags, I'd be bidding/calling the next seller early to express interest; too many cars vanish from ebay 12hrs into the auction.

i have half the money since i msg you on ebay

i calling in all the fools who owe me cash!

[jrh001]

Spotted your car in the city today. How is the sale going?

JH

[coupe72001]

The sale is going poorly. Very poorly. Tons of interest, but no commitment. I actually thought that my C210 would sell due to all the expensive go-fast bits hanging off it, but then modified cars are more of a pain to register.

I took the car back to it's garage today... no point it sitting out in the rain for nothing.

Some good news is that I scored a trial shift for tommorrow in the city, and had a busy day in my coffee van at a race meet at Sandown over the weekend, so the financial pressure to sell has eased a tiny bit. I guess we'll see what happens... I'm still in the red, but there's no point giving the car away.

[blk180]

Anyoe want to buy a nice clean shell lol, everytime i look at this on ebay i think of how nice those go fast bits would look on my coupe!!

Do me a good price on motor/box/tailshaft and diff?? lol

Goodluck with sale man its a very nice car cheap.

Brad

[Socrates]

Sold?

[coupe72001]

No. Fake bid by younger brother of ebay account holder, apparently.

[Ghostrider]

That's a pain in the ass! When it happens you should be reporting them to ebay, otherwise you have to pay final value fees and the incidents wont stop happening. Somebody has to be held accountable for these stupid so called wrong bids.

D

[coupe72001]

I hear you Dennis. I warned the guy that I'd be opening an unpaid item dispute in order to get the cost of selling the car back, and he said that was fine and he'd acknowledge the bid was an accident. He seemed genuinely bothered that I had been put out, instead of ignoring my calls, messages, death threats etc. like ususally happens when someone bids with no intention of paying.

The thing that I furking HATE about ebay is this - even if I get the money refunded it will come back as ebay credit (list the next $50 worth of items on ebay on the house) instead of $50 of actual money going back onto my credit card balance. Cutting down the credit card balance is the reason for this stupid and humiliating sale in the first place. I also hate that genuine accident or no, no seller can ever see how many unpaid bidder strikes have been listed against this guy. It may be a first offence, he might be averaging one a week. Who'll ever know? Even if the bidder clocks up a ton of strikes he gets suspended from ebay for a week (GASP!!!) they are able to open a new ebay account straight away using the same address and credit card details.

Anyway, finished ranting for now, but not bothering with ebay again till I've cooled off.