Guess the price was not enough the first time around. Now listed at $11950.00 Buy It Now or make offer, 3 day auction.

 

Well now here is a problem and a sure red flag. I went back and looked and the original auction did not have a reserve and should have been sold at the original $10,250 price. Shady dealings.

 

Yeah, I noticed that. Sounds like a dealer to stay away from.

 

I just now checked the re-listed car and it says it sold for an even $10,000.00

 

Yep, you are right. Some shady bidding going on. Makes you wonder if the seller had some friends running up the bid for them.

 

I sent the seller a message asking why it was relisted and didn't sell becuase there was no reserve. I got this reply:

The guy that bought it did not pay, claims he did not realize it was a flood, waitied 3 days to let me know, but that's Ebay I guess

Now I check the relisted auction again and it says it sold for $10,000. Kinda impossible since the starting bid was $11950.00 and doesn't list a winning bidder at $10,000. This seller went from sketchy to very, very sketchy.

 

More than likely..... or it was done so less eBay fees were paid.

 

Oh, and if you check the relisted auction and scroll through the picture to the end, the last 2 pictures are the ones that a member here took and uploaded to the forum. Seems as though they know that we know.

 

You are 100% right. That happens all the time on Ebay. Ebay tried to hold that practice down by listing the number of times a particular bidder bids on the same seller. That's why you will see bidders with no history because it is a friend that will create a new account so that there isn't any bidding history with that same seller. They go to the local library to create a new ebay account, that way the IP address is different. This has nothing to do with this car, it has to do with the dealer that has listed it. I am not stating that is what has happened here, but anytime there is a relisting there is a good chance that their buddy ended up the the high bid. They will test the limits of the other bidders and then the seller will contact the other bidders and tell them the high bidder reneged and offer the item to them for their previous high bid. Ebay is good but the bad guys can find a crack in any money transaction.

 

Harley,

Agreed, the bid structure seemed a little weird in the first auction. Then with how the latest auction went, seems to me like something isn't on the up and up. Hopefully they weren't expecting to get 14K for it?