|
I think futura289 is Joe Gray here on this site. Not sure. Hell, we have
bid against each other a few times. Sometimes I see something that will finish
off a car and I get stupid myself on evilbay, knowing full well all I would have
to do is simply.....pick....up....phone....and call many of the people I have
dealt with the past decades on my vendors list to see if one of them have it,
and well, usually non fee-bait prices.
Good and bad on ebay. Good is that everyone must remember there are AMCers
in far flung places that can't find anything for their AMC Anything. So ebay is
a big mall basically. Ok, garage sale. On the other hand you also see stuff you
passed on at that AMC national or regional for $100 sail to hundreds of dollars
more on fee bay. You have people seling things on ebay that have reproduced only
one or two items, this is their way to sell. You have hundreds of people who are
not members of any AMC online place, nor member of any national, local, regional
AMC organization like chapter or club. So their only ties to find anything they
need is believe it or not, off ebay, so they usually pay premium prices for not
getting involved by paying dues or, well, joining something like this House of
Bart. And then you have auctions themselves. How many of you have ever gotten a
hard pee pee (ok, Lu & a few other quit reading now) but how many of you
have ever been involved in a live auction? I have and used to go to 20-30
auctions PER MONTH, sometimes 2-3 a DAY here in Houston in late 80s/early 90s at
police, storage and salvage auctions. I would pick up whole cars for $20-$100
each. That is right, 73 P1 black 401 AMX, Pierre cardin, bought it for $450 for
instance. My site is littered with these cars I picked up. Anyhows, you get
'caught up' in the auction process and tend to sometimes get stupid. And it
don't help when ebay sends you quick YOU HAVE BEEN OUTBID! notice by email or
text, so you go bid again. So sometimes, whether at live auctions or online
auctions shit happens during the auction process.
Ebay is good and bad. Sort of like a 59 Cadillac fins. You either love it
or hate it there is no in between. Hopefully whoever ends up with say, this
grill, is not a speculator wishing to 'cash in' on Enron stock 4-5 years from
now and is someone who generally knows that the NOS parts have simply vanished
in the last 10 years, and this could be their last chance to get one for their
personal car!
Eddie Stakes'
Planet Houston AMX 713.464.8825 eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.planethoustonamx.com Email is currently HEAVY 5-12 day reply times, call if important __._,_.___
SPONSORED LINKS
Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional
Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___ |
Back to the Home of the AMC Gremlin