-EDDIE..MAYBE someone just NEEDS the Gremlin parts and has NO Gremlins anywhere near them in salvage yards to get parts from?? Yep Eddie. I've bought some Gremlin parts on ebay in the last few years. I've bought various AMC/AMX/Ambassador/Gremlin parts from you before also.The one 1/4 panel on ebay i DID buy .....YES..it was late night beer induced(YOU GOT OUTBID AGAIN)bidding!! My car is virtually rust free...except one 1/4 panel. I've collected some spare parts for it....BECAUSE I NEVER INTEND TO SELL IT...I LOVE IT , AND WILL KEEP IT UNTILL I DIE!! Now...i've seen guys at the NAMDRA AMC Nationals buy up ALL of the available 401 engine parts and then say...."gee now i have a DOZEN 401's"!! Those are the horders or money makers when they resell. More $$$ than brains, or whatever. One dude bought THREE 401's a couple years ago at NAMDRA. Didn't even get his hands dirty. Rich looking dude...had them all loaded for him into a BIG fancy trailer !! My problem at times is......NO parts around here sooo ebay is it!! Now i let people know when i find AMC's / AMC parts around here ....just to help out! Usually ...the ones i find are NOT ones i need...just my usual luck!! BUT if i can help out a fellow ANC'er..why not. NOW to the guy that said...bid high to make him pay...THAT'S just childish bullshit man!! Joe-- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@...> wrote: > > 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@... > www.planethoustonamx.com > Email is currently HEAVY > 5-12 day reply times, call if important > ----- Original Message ----- > From: baadass73gremlin@... > To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 12:10 AM > Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] nos gremlin grille > > > Forget about bidding on it as the infamous 'futura289' who has bought about 56,million dollars worth of Gremlin parts of evilbay.and outbids even the most hardcore i.e Davis LOL > Bart > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BaadAssGremlins/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BaadAssGremlins/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:BaadAssGremlins-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:BaadAssGremlins-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: BaadAssGremlins-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/