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DieselDave said:
I do a lot of car selling on e-bay. If there is one type car on e-bay to avoid it's the collector car. Way too many variables and apples and oranges on those type cars. We have sold a few of them and never know if the buyer is going to be thrilled or livid. Eye of the beholder comes to mind. I have 3 guys at work that bought muscle cars off e-bay and were disappointed. If it's a cheap car or if it's a near new vehicle then e-bay is an excellent place to purchase but you still need to be careful who you do business with.
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Absolute right! I work for a business that sells cars wholesale. I get the 'honor' of selling the exotic cars we get. The last one I sold was a
Rolls Royce.
I don't know how people will react to the cars. In the Rolls case the guy was unbelievably happy when he came from Montana to pick up the car in California. He emailed me later to say on the way back he ran across some main actor from a movie called, "A River Runs Through It", named Robert...something and the actor wanted to buy the car but he wouldn't sell it. Uhh...Robert REDFORD? Well, both of them loved the car as he drove it back home.
But in most cases people are disappointed in the vehicles I sell at Ebaymotors. Why? Because explaining a car over the Net is difficult. I sold a 1973 Mercury Pantera that is in great shape...for its year. It was original...very original. The car is known for rusting and this one was the exception since it lived in California. It was always stored in a garage and under a tarp. The buyer bought it but as he left he complained there was dust, some grease and oil on the frame. He complained there were some minor scratches in the paint. There were some light buff marks in the 100 coats of wax on the car.
Now I thought the car was a great user car and would be proud to drive a car of this age around. He must have expected a showroom stored car.
The cars are road worthy cars. No car is perfect, not even an off the assembly line car.
Most of the buyers I get complain. I have gotten to the point that when an Ebay buyer comes to pick up the car then I disappear so I don't have to look at them in the face and hear them complain.
You should hear me complain as people email to ask about the car or send them personal pictures. If there was something special about the car, good or bad, I would have posted the pictures.
Selling a car on the Net is tough; selling a lot of cars on the Net, to me, is a royal pain in my behind.