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Now he just has to collect the cash. Lunatic price for a car, but it seems in the ballpark.

I love the old cars, but not that much!!

His answers to the questions are very good as well.

Thanks for the post, Jeff

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Sorry...there is no car, in my opinion, worth almost 2 million dollars. I don't even car if Elvis farted in it, it's still not worth it. I'm sure Ebay is going to get a nice slice of the pie on this one.

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I know a couple (business contacts) who must be worth ten of millions of dollars. When they come to town, she always pulls a sheaf of restaurant coupons out of her purse before we go to lunch.

I was sitting at a table with them at a convention in Puerto Rico a few years ago, and the convention officials came to our table and told them they would have to leave unless they paid their addmission fees. They were trying to sneak into the convention!

Go figure!

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Sorry...there is no car' date=' in my opinion, worth almost 2 million dollars. I don't even car if Elvis farted in it, it's still not worth it. I'm sure Ebay is going to get a nice slice of the pie on this one.[/quote']

Ebay will only get 90 bucks for the whole thing. $40 insertion fee and $50 closing fee. Well worth it for the exposure.

As a seller, I would not like the fact that my auction ended with a buy it now to a bidder who only has had 1 other transaction on Ebay.

I'm sure we haven't seen the end of this yet.

:rolleyes:

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Doesn't surprise me at all Tony. I've heard several stories like that over the years from my friend who restores "high dollar" vehicles. Not saying all are like that but those that are will nickel and dime you to death on frivolous things that you wouldn't expect from someone with so much money. What really seems to be common is the fact that they will pay way over the value of a car be it ebay or whatever yet when it comes time to pay the restoration bill they whine about the cost of the little things.

I guess if your butt squeaks when you walk your able to do this.

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I'm not surprised about the coupon deal etc. That's how those people got their money, by watching penny's. They don't mind spending the money up front for something with a total cost. However, when it comes to small items, they watch every penny. Those penny's add up over time and could end up more than what they spent for the big ticket item.

It's sort of like when you go shopping at the grocery. If you just stop for some milk and bread, you will usually pick up something extra on your way out. However, if you only shop once a week or less, you don't buy all those extras that you didn't intend to buy. So...........you saved a couple of dollars on the larger ticket and banked the couple extra dollars you would have spent by just picking up a few items at a time in more trips. Works the same by clipping coupons.

That said, we gave up on coupons years ago. We'd clip them, take them to the store with us, then forget to give them to the cashier. So.......we quit clipping them. I also do not run out to buy something just because it's on sale and might have a need, or think I'll need it later. I just wait until I need the item, then buy it. Saving a couple of dollars on a sale doesn't help if you never use the item. If it's a year or later, that money could have been collecting interest, which is a higher savings in most cases than buying an item on sale.

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