#0403 Chalet [on ebay again] Edit: now off, with added DRAMA

[a77blazerchalet]

... heavy sigh ...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Chevrolet-Blazer-Cheyenne-/331606696497

Didn't recognized in the first few seconds from the different tires and rally wheels, but a look around the back and a glance at the blurry photo of the serial # plate confirmed that this #0403 speculator/dealer flip was so new that its former owner's ebay listing is still functional to look at.

Worse, the "just took it on a 900 mile road trip" line in the new listing doesn't square up with the mileage on the odometer pic of the last listing. 81647-80977= 670 miles, basically the shortest distance between Albuquerque and Grand Island Nebraska. Point-to-point for the two ebay sellers.

**Same day evening edit: see my post here **

 

[bigjbear]

Seems like a dumb way to flip one. If no one was willing to outbid him on eBay, who's going to bid more than the $9500 he just paid? Seems like it would more sense to list it somewhere else/take it to a live auction. Wonder why he canceled the auction...

 

[a77blazerchalet]

I suppose the 'trigger' that prompted the guy to pull the listing was some sort of misplaced fear out of my suggestion *(7/18/19 update: old photo link busted, so I added it below) that he should fully disclose just how long he actually owned it. I guess.

He told me not to ever send him another ebay message again, but being the sunshine/rainbows/kittens/sweetheart optimist kind of guy I am, I replied back with a suggestion that he didn't need to pull the listing, just re-write it with a hidden reserve amount and say he bought the thing for what he thought was a too-low price, drove it just fine for 670 miles back to his place and tuned it up perfect, and replaced some bits. No crime in that kind of admission, and some folks might even call him a savvy investor, a good ol' Yankee capitalist. No reply from the guy so far.....

Why some sellers don't take a fail-safe selling approach is beyond me. But the more egregious one of the bunch was the dealer/seller of #0258 who copied 'n pasted the previous owner's Craigslist ad into his own ebay listing, giving everybody the impression that he'd owned it for two years when he had only bought it a month earlier. Me and the previous owner sicced ebay on him over that and forced him to re-write the listing.

 

[BlazerFarm]

That's a nice truck and maybe close to worth what he paid for it originally but I don't see $8500 in improvements in the two months he's owned it. No one is going to pay $18,000 for that truck.