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Mar 29, 2006 14:06:40 GMT
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Since I listed Saab on free listing day I have a few questiosn, and some guys came and looked. been going great. Now I have 55 watchers, 1712 views of the listing, but just one bid nowhere near reserve and 7hrs 46mins left.
I really need to move on from this car. I'm actually starting to hate owning it, never mind driving it. It was meant to be my great gift to myself for quiting smoking, but I fel curse word about it. buying it was a mistake.
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Mar 29, 2006 14:13:05 GMT
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I'd hold tight - most bidders just snipe at the end, and there'll probably be a flurry of bids in the last seconds of the auction. If you've set a reserve you're not gonna lose out (well, you'll still have the car sat outside your house, but at least it won't go for a song) Good luck with it, hope it shifts
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Mar 29, 2006 14:28:07 GMT
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Yeah man, hope you get it sold, i just got a buyer for my granada, glad to get it away... 1.5 years is wayyy too long time to own a car i don't feel anything for
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Mar 29, 2006 14:28:37 GMT
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7hrs plenty of time!!!!!
rich
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1974 Fiat 130 Coupe 1987 Saab 900 turbo 1988 Mercedes 300ce coupe 1988 Skoda Classic Trials Car 1988 Skoda road rally rapid 1990 Saab 9000 Carlsson
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Mar 29, 2006 14:30:05 GMT
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you probably only get 1 bidder for every 70-100 watchers.... i'm as guilty as anyone, i regularly watch stuff just to see what it sells for especially if i have something similar. Ebay should really have two levels of watching, one that lets you just bookmark something and one that lets the seller know you're interested.
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Never trust a man Who names himself Trevor. Or one day you might find He's not a real drug dealer.
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Mar 29, 2006 14:34:37 GMT
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hang fire, although shoppers on ebay hope to get a bargain, so if it starts cheap enough there should be some genu wine folks interested. failing that any interest on a Saab site/forum?
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it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts
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Mar 29, 2006 14:37:56 GMT
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It's all about the psychology.
The message you're sending out by having a high starting price & a reserve is all wrong. I bet you that if you'd startedit at £100 no res it would be well beyond £1600 by now.
You gotta let folk think they're getting a bargain.
Also, consider that the other 4 billion tight-asses who used free listings have ther items ending today. You're trying to sell in a flooded market. Its a false economy......
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Mar 29, 2006 14:43:13 GMT
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It's all about the psychology. The message you're sending out by having a high starting price & a reserve is all wrong. I bet you that if you'd startedit at £100 no res it would be well beyond £1600 by now. You gotta let folk think they're getting a bargain. Also, consider that the other 4 billion tight-asses who used free listings have ther items ending today. You're trying to sell in a flooded market. Its a false economy...... Our resident eBay guru speaks the truth. It's a bit of a risk starting so low without a reserve, but if you got the gonads to do it, more than likely it'd run like pogweaselsan says
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Mar 29, 2006 14:50:07 GMT
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its true! I have won and lost selling, usually if its well advertised and keyworded at the right time you are usually getting 'what people will pay for it' market value or in the case of 'rare' car parts, an inflated market value!
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it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts
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MWF
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Mar 29, 2006 15:39:21 GMT
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I had curse word all luck with Ebay.
Put the car on with no reserve and just got pestering phone calls from people wanted to know what I'd take for it. Very little happened right up till the last minute where about two people bidded.
The winning bidder then decided he didn't want my car due to it not having tax (mentioned this twice in the advert).
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Mar 29, 2006 15:49:28 GMT
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I generally have had no bother selling on eBay, even when a zero rated bidder from Belgium bid on my mates S2 XJ6 Coupe 5 seconds from the end of the auction! Oh yeah, he didn't speak english either! Anyway the guy turned up with a mate (with good English) and a suitcase full of tenners the following weekend and drove it home.
Had a couple of dozy tw@t moments - like the guy who used buy it now on my Saab "to see how much the car would sell for" knob cheese!!!!!!!!! and the continual offers of completely uninteresting or pointless cars as P/Ex or swap or "your car plus a grand" when I'm selling becausae I need the money myself...
But generally works fine for me.
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Mar 29, 2006 16:39:09 GMT
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Yeah me too, had a few wasters and idiots, but you can deal with them with a few ground rules (NO SWAPS, ZERO-RATERS, SCAMMERS etc) and by keeping a close eye on the sale. Just had a good result on a Renautl 21 gearbox, 500% profit!
MWF I hope you negged your waster bidder outta town.
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1972 Fiat 130 1985 Talbot Alpine 1974 Lancia Beta Saloon 1975 + 1986 Mazda 929 Koop + Wagon 1982 Fiat Argenta 2.0 iniezione elettronica 1977 Toyota Carina TA14 BEST CAR EVER!!!!!!!! 1979 Datsun B310 Sunny 4-dr 1984 Audi 200 Quattro Turbo 1983 Honda Accord 1.6 DX GONE1989 Alfa 75 2.0 TS Mr T says: TREAT YO MOTHER RIGHT!
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Nick
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Mar 29, 2006 17:53:25 GMT
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never sold anything myself on ebay, am looking to sell some things on there soon.
so what happens if you try the pogweasels ebay psychology and run without a reserve and it just doesnt get to what it should do and you end up selling something thats worth £1k for £400? isnt a reserve worth it just to er on the safeside of things? or does that ruin the whole psychological thing on the go?
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idea stolen from rattely eddie.
this weeks car count "5"
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Mar 29, 2006 18:31:04 GMT
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hang fire, although shoppers on ebay hope to get a bargain, so if it starts cheap enough there should be some genu wine folks interested. failing that any interest on a Saab site/forum? Tried the normal Saab sites, and on here. Pretty much no interest. That was why I went to Fleabay.
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Mar 29, 2006 19:57:08 GMT
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Are you asking too much for it? (genuine question)
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Mar 29, 2006 20:03:24 GMT
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if you just want shut, start low, and use the extreme lowest reserve you can live with, sell all the good bits clearly, then mention its genuine, and mention the cosmetic problems. you could also consider getting it fixed then selling. It is all a gamble i'm afraid. Alternatively if it is worth next to nowt allow our friends here to photochop it and completely reanimate it into something you can live with, and keep the good egg. ;D Edit: forgot to mention; Trader, loot, find it etc, classic mags, classic car weekly, volvo forum - worth a shot, i eventually flogged my Crapi on a V8 site, i couldn't believe it after being inundated by nigerian scammers for several months, infact i ignored the guy!
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it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts
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Mar 29, 2006 22:17:20 GMT
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It isn't that the car is bad. Bodily apart from the A pillars it is very Solid. Hardly even any cosmetic patches. Without the leaky roof, it would be worth arround £3500-4k. Without the leaky roof and half the miles it would be worth £7k down south, £5k oop north. If you have any mechanical talent and a garage to work in, the roof is a weekend job fitting and you can get one for £250 off ebay. I have very little talent, and no garage and less patience. The roof would cost me £850 to have fitted by an independant, or £4000 to be replaced by Saab themselves. It isn't a hard job, but I have to big hams, and terrible luck.
the rust on the A pillar is very isolated replacing the rust with new metal is needed but it is all in visible places. Even the door bottoms that rust on Saabs are spotless, inside and out. It is a typical solid but Shabby Chic Saab 900 Convertible. I actually underpriced it for what it is. The hard cover for the roof is an optional extra, and when they come up, they ebay for £500. Add to that the spare set of 15" alloys, they normally go for £150 needing minor refurb (they have two good tyres).
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bryn
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Mar 29, 2006 22:31:31 GMT
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You've got a great car there no matter how you feel right now, sure it's beginning to grip your curse word that it's still sat outside but (in Jim Bowen style voice) look around at what you could have won... You may never have had one and that would have been a shame. Believe it or not, your car is an inspiration, I've always fancied one and although I don't have the time/money/space or err, need for another car you got me thinking when you placed it for sale. Sure, getting low bids and people asking stoopid questions is annoying, but look at the reaction it got on here. Okay, so that hasn't resulted in a sale but it must go some way towards feeling better about it? Don't have any regrets, life is too short
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Volvo, Buggy, Discovery and an old tractor.
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MWF
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MWF I hope you negged your waster bidder outta town. I got scared
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