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Scary. I myself bought a collectable car on ebay, so this hits a little close to home. But my experience was good.
1 posted on 03/02/2005 11:13:12 PM PST by I still care
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the father and son where carrying around 9,000 dollars in cash in indianapolis and he wasnt carrying a gun? hes damn lucky he didnt win himself and his son a darwin award.


2 posted on 03/02/2005 11:16:21 PM PST by freepatriot32 (Jacques Chirac and Kofi Annan, a pantomime horse in which both men are playing the rear end. M.Steyn)
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I thought you could ask the police to go with you at times like this and they would.


3 posted on 03/02/2005 11:26:52 PM PST by msnimje
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We also bought a collectable vehicle on ebay. The vehicle was in decent shape for being an antique. We did not bring cash to the pick up. We also ran a simple check on the seller address, phone and name. He may have done the same on us. :>) What did we do before computers?


4 posted on 03/03/2005 4:05:30 AM PST by oldironsides
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Well, this is definitely going to get him negative feedback.


5 posted on 03/03/2005 4:12:15 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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I bought a car on E-bay..what a mistake! It was in Fla. and I was in Calif. I trusted the sellers assurances that it was a great car..He even had an award from e-bay as one of their top sellers...what a crock!

the car had been in 2 accidents, and the door was missaligned, and the window rolled up crooked! a lug nut was stripped, and the lowering kit was a chopjob! one tire was bald when it arrived by truck and I had no recourse. ( You can leave a bad report on his record, but I checked his record and he would always reply that the buyer was some kid who was a sore looser or some comment )

Then the car's check enging light came on and I found that the downstream O2 sensor was cut and the wires were tied up and tucked away so as to be not noticeable, the Smog mechanic said this was a trick to get a car that had a bad catalitic to pass smog, and then the light would come on after the test and the car was driven 50 miles to reset the sensors. it cost us thousands of dollars to get the car decient enough to drive...I will never trust E-Bay again.


9 posted on 03/03/2005 10:20:03 AM PST by LtKerst (Lt Kerst)
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I bought a car on E-bay..what a mistake! It was in Fla. and I was in Calif. I trusted the sellers assurances that it was a great car..He even had an award from e-bay as one of their top sellers...what a crock!

the car had been in 2 accidents, and the door was missaligned, and the window rolled up crooked! a lug nut was stripped, and the lowering kit was a chopjob! one tire was bald when it arrived by truck and I had no recourse. ( You can leave a bad report on his record, but I checked his record and he would always reply that the buyer was some kid who was a sore looser or some comment )

Then the car's check enging light came on and I found that the downstream O2 sensor was cut and the wires were tied up and tucked away so as to be not noticeable, the Smog mechanic said this was a trick to get a car that had a bad catalitic to pass smog, and then the light would come on after the test and the car was driven 50 miles to reset the sensors. it cost us thousands of dollars to get the car decient enough to drive...I will never trust E-Bay again.


10 posted on 03/03/2005 10:20:20 AM PST by LtKerst (Lt Kerst)
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