I've had excellent luck with Ebay since it's inception. On high dollar items, I highly reccomend talking to the person on the phone, and if you like what you hear, get him to agree to sell it to you at a fixed price if you fly out to inspect it. I'd rather loose a few hundred bucks on a plane ticket than get stuck with something that I don't like. I call people up, ask them about the car, ask them what they are looking to get for it, and if it all jives, I'll say "hey, if I fly out there to inspect it, and like it, would you end the auction?" usually they'll do this, you're obviously a serious buyer as opposed to someone who just wants to kick tires. You will notice that 1/2 the c-3's on ebay are listed by a guy called "US Corvettes". he is in Huntington Beach CA, but the cars appear to be located all over the country. On occasion, he'll have a few good cars, but they are ALWAYS waaaaay overpriced, as he has been listing the same 20 cars on ebay for months now. For the most part, a lot of his cars are crap. He has a green vert on there that just came out of the paint shop. looks good except for the fact that the bodyshop must have run out of masking tape and paper on the last car they painted, because this thing has enough overspray to be considered a total loss by any insurance company. I'd stay away from those cars myself, they all appear to be in the classification I call "old whores in new dresses".
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