Somebody lied....and it looks like I was right....

[SurfnSun]

I spoke with the owner of a certain 87 b2k that was auctioned on ebay. There was another gentleman who bid on the car, won, and never followed up to purchase it. ad ad 2nd time he's backed out of buying a car that he's won.

Guess what he's a member of this forum who claims to have an 87b2k or two and a ZR1. Cant produce and pics of the awesome stable though.....Go figure. :eyerole

 

[SurfnSun]

Here is an exerpt from the emails we shared.....

"This guy is bogus. He never followed through on anything. I'm just going to keep the car. It's a very nice car with 8,000 miles and alot of fun to drive. I drove it to the office today. He needs to be banned from ebay. "

I have invited him to this forum. It will be nice to have another "REAL" Callaway owner join the board.

 

[jcummings250]

I would agree, ebayers can be pretty shady. Kinda ruins it for the rest of us, because if trust wasn't an issue, it would be a simply AWESOME tool! Without the internet, there is no way I would've been able to end up with a Callaway all the way from NJ, with me living in Ohio.


Roughly speaking here, what is an 87B2K with 8,000 miles on it selling for? 25k-30k? 30k-35k? Higher? There are so few out there, its hard to find much on sales. I have seen several ads FOR SALE, but I havn't seen the final selling price for any of them.

Thanks!

 

[SurfnSun]

The one is question was bid on by a member here for 28k. But he didn't follow through so technically its not a sale.

 

[EricVonHa]

I've been following the controversy surrounding the "ghost" buyer and wish that the person reads this thread and needs to realize that through their behavior they are endlessly tarnishing their own reputation beyond repair. Whatever the story may be.. it's been TWO collectible cars that solid deals have fallen through after the owners have agreed to take them off the market from accepting a deposit to a winning Ebay bid. Sheeiit does happen but it appears that this person isn't really looking to buy a car but that they are taking "Window Shopping" to an entirely new level. The collectible car market is not Wall-Mart !! Once you buy it-- you OWN it!!

 

[KOPBET]

hi , my take on the subject is this. firstly it comes to buying things off the net in the first place."not a good idea".maybe its a personal quirk of mine who knows?..but after almost 20 years on the internet my credit card # has never been on here anyplace "espessally ebay".

Sherry:

Twenty years on the net? Sure you want to stand by that statement?

SurfnSun:

Oviously the guy is either determined to "upset the cart" so to speak when it comes to the bidding or is just chickening out after the fact. What does his feedback etc. look like now that he's done what he's done.

 

[SurfnSun]

The negative feedback hasn't been left yet. But there was one other car on ebay that he won, and never contacted the seller. This b2k makes the second. I also had a deal fall thru with him that wasn't ebay related.

 

[KOPBET]

Interesting.

Timeline:

1984 - Internet was essentially MILNET and ARPANET with only 1084 hosts. Which one were you?

1992 - World-Wide Web released by CERN. Only 1,136,000 hosts.

1993 - Marc Andreessen and NCSA and the University of Illinois develops a graphical user interface to the WWW, called "Mosaic for X". Still only 2,056,000 hosts.

 

[Fishman]

Ask Al Gore how long the internet has been around... he invented it.

:duh

 

[froggy47]

So do us all a favor & post his name/handle. Let him explain to the forum what the deal is.

 

[KOPBET]

MILNET. I rest my case.

 

[SurfnSun]

So do us all a favor & post his name/handle. Let him explain to the forum what the deal is.

In the last 45 days 2 threads have been locked in this forum, look at them. One is about dyno numbers, one isn't....you should be able to figure it out from there. Im not going to say any names