[DeTomaso] Pantera sold on eBay

Wed Feb 18 11:31:02 EST 2009

Look what happened the last time somebody asked for that.

1) they lost the tablets

2) Nobody listened

3) when they try to enforce of the rules, they break them to do it.

It's a lost cause Larry,

>From the primordial ooze from which we sprang to the cosmic dust that
sparked life ( still lots of room for the religious types to grasp at Divine
intervention )
we are doomed to make mistakes, marry some of them, sire some of them, hide
as many as we can, and in the brief moments of clarity, some of us are lucky
enough to
have acquired a Pantera and can drive through deserted highways, lonely
interstates, crooked country roads on sunny days and moonless nights to the
sound of
fossil fuels being burned and expelled through resonating metal tubes and
finally be at peace...if only for a moment.

thinking  screw everything else, if this thing could just fly and go thata
way, my life would be perfect.

then you look ahead, see some Save the whale stickered Volvo with a load of
OctoKids covered in bacteria laced Peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches making
faces at you through the back window with a dried out hanging wiper
blade doing 37 in a 65  and you know that you are back in reality because
life sucks again!

Michael, despondent over the OctoMom's Dilemma.

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Larry - Ohio Time Corp <
larry at ohiotimecorp.com> wrote:

> Michael,
>
>
>
> Will you please chisel this on two stone tablets for eternity.
>
>
>
> Larry - (Moses)Cleveland
>
>
>
>  _____
>
> From: michael at michaelshortt.com [mailto:michaelsavga at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:45 AM
> To: larry at ohiotimecorp.com
> Cc: thefuture98070 at yahoo.com; kmaguire at landrovermiramar.com;
>  detomaso at realbig.com; MikeLDrew at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Pantera sold on eBay
>
>
>
> So Gentlemen, what';s the lesson.
>
>
>
> 1) eBay is a fine instrument for being taken if you don't follow the rules.
>
>
>
> 2) Have somebody go inspect the car if you can't.
>
>
>
> 3) an airline ticket is way cheaper insurance before you turn over cash and
> gives you the ability walk away before it's yours
>
>
>
> 4) Crap is worth what somebody will pay for it, no more, no less
>
>
>
> 5) 99% of the time on cars, you only make money when you buy them right,
> not
> when you sell them.
>
>
>
> 6) This hobby is like Vegas, you don't play with money that you can't
> afford
> to lose.
>
>
>
> 7) You meet the nicest people on a Honda, you meet the world's biggest
> scumbags when you sell exotic cars.
>
> because in order to play in that field you generally started with smaller
> and cheaper cars and screwed people over
>
> on your way to the top of the food chain.  Buy from people you know or from
> people who know people you know.
>
>
>
> 8) a reserve is what it says and any seller with a brain knows that the car
> might not sell, but eBay eggs you on in the last 3 days with
>
> Hey, asshole, lower your reserve ( because what that really means is that
> unless you sell the car, we only get the listing fee and no commission % )
>
> You can't bid on your own stuff, you can have a friend do it for you, but
> then you still have to pay the sales commission.
>
> So if you don't want to follow through, the best thing is to just let it
> die
> below the reserve, it's a cheaper way out.
>
>
>
> 9) get Mike Drew to go look at the car, test drive it, work on it for free
> and then deliver it, that my friends is Freaking priceless.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> BONUS LIFE LESSON.
>
>
>
> 10) all self made gagillionaires who are "incredibily nice guys" ( sick of
> hearing that one ) were at some point in their lives
>
> real SOB's, that's how they got there, they only get to be nice now because
> they already have theirs.
>
>
>
>
>
> Michael "Cynical in Savannah"
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Larry - Ohio Time Corp
> <larry at ohiotimecorp.com> wrote:
>
> When I bought my GT5 shell I put my eBay bid in at the last second and was
> high bidder with 2K still to go on my max bid. I was out bid on the last
> 1/2
> second. Within 1 minute of the sale end I get a second chance offer at my
> max bid. I knew what happened. I knew they did it to find and get my max
> bid. I should have walked away. It was the max I was willing to pay so I
> took it.
>
> When the trucking company delivered it, I knew I should have walked away
> even more.
>
> Larry (felt used) - Cleveland
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]
> On
> Behalf Of chris terp
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 5:28 PM
> To: kmaguire at landrovermiramar.com; detomaso at realbig.com; MikeLDrew at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso]   Pantera sold on eBay
>
> Actually, I've been a victim of sellers outbidding their own product so
> they
> don't lose.  For instance, this person might have wanted $40k for the car,
> advertised it as 'no reserve', and then bid $35k for their own car so they
> would not lose.
>
> Or they could have had a friend bid up the price well knowing they would
> not
> be held accountable for the purchase.
>
> It's hard for EBay to keep track of these types of sellers.  Seller history
> is a good way to check.  Also, you can ask EBay if there was potentially
> fraudulant activity there and they will check it out.
>
> Chris Terp
> #6571
>
>
>
> --- On Tue, 2/17/09, MikeLDrew at aol.com <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:
>
> From: MikeLDrew at aol.com <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso]   Pantera sold on eBay
> To: kmaguire at landrovermiramar.com, detomaso at realbig.com
> Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 12:04 PM
>
> In a message dated 2/17/09 11 50 22, kmaguire at landrovermiramar.com writes:
>
>
> > I don't have any experience with eBay, but the bidding pattern is
> > certainly suspect. The winning bidder bid against himself from $30K to
> > the "winning" bid of $35K in the space of 50 minutes.
> >
> >
> >
> > Maybe we will see this car come up for auction again...
> >
> You gotta read the fine print.   The bidding history does not show
> automatic
>
> bids.   So, somebody put in a bid with a 'max bid' of 30K, let's
> say.   Then
> somebody else manually bids $20K.   E-bay accepts his bid and raises it to
> $21K.   E-bay accepts that and raises it again, and so on until the manual
> bidder
> either quits, or he makes a bid higher than the automatic bidder's max bid.
>
> The manual bidder is then in the lead, and E-bay sends an e-mail to the
> automatic bidder, telling him that he's been outbid, and offering him the
> chance
> raise his stated max bid.
>
> And so on...
>
> Mike
>
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