Well dads done it again (ebay)

Kwill · January 18, 2018, 12:38:50 PM

So my dad has a bad habit of getting on eBay and bidding on things and getting that you ain't gonna beat me out attitude then getting stuck with it. A few years ago it was a motorcycle that was in Michigan. We drove all the way up there to find out it was a piece of junk. Guy wouldn't even let dad test drive it. So it got left in Michigan and it was a wasted trip. I thought he had learned his lesson. Nope I was wrong. He got to bidding on a 1991 dodge stealth on there and it ended this morning and he got it. No big deal it's 1250.00. It's over I Tennessee about a 660 mile trip one way to go get it. If it's as it was described then it was a good deal. Problem is most time things ain't as described. So now looks like I got to make a trip to Tennessee. 8)

btulloh · January 18, 2018, 12:48:33 PM

He could probably part it out for ten times that if he needed to.

Kwill · January 18, 2018, 12:58:00 PM

Quote from: btulloh on January 18, 2018, 12:48:33 PM
He could probably part it out for ten times that if he needed to.

10 times would be a stretch but he could make money on it. With all the pick and pull places now they don't part out as well

Grizzly · January 18, 2018, 03:00:27 PM

I believe you'd appreciate some sympathy or such but I'm chortling evilly and thinking about the day when I'm gonna do that to my boys!! Oh, it's gonna be fun. 8) 8) :D :D

Weekend_Sawyer · January 18, 2018, 03:16:03 PM

I'm glad I didn't see it!

I'd love to see it!

Hope you post pictures.

Jon

starmac · January 18, 2018, 06:48:03 PM

A few years ago, there was a nice 2 axle rgn with a 3'rd flip and a 2 axle jeep.
Add read it was ready to go, with new paint, new boards on the deck and new brakes on the jeep, but they needed adjusted because sometimes they would slide the tires. the PICTURES looked GREAT. I booked marked and checked when I came back home, it had sold well below what it was worth, at which point I kicked myself hard for not having my wife watch and bid on it.
A week or so later it come up for bid to deliver it to Washington from ohio on U-ship, so I bid on it.

When I got the bid, I told them to have the jeep loaded up before I got there to pick it up, and understood that they would. I got there during a major thunderstorm and lord what a mess. It had new paint all right, they painted it black, lights and all, It did have new boards, nice ones. The jeep was still under it and the seller did not have a truck with a wet kit to work the neck so we could deck it up, he had never had one just had always drug it with the jeep and side loaded, which was evident by the bent up side beams, I am talking major bent up. We finally agreed I would pull it out in the country to where he knew a guy with an excavator big enough to load the jeep, only one light worked when I hooked up, and he was right the brakes on the jeep would lock up. After loading it up, I quickly found, the brakes didn't need adjusted on the jeep, it was trying to stop the whole mess, the air pipe to the flip had rusted off, and there was no shut off, so when you applied brakes it just dumped the air. Well it is raining big time, so I drug it to the closest truck stop and called the buyer and explained the situation, and that our deal was changing. He agreed to pay me to get it somewhat road ready.
The next day was somewhat clear, so I found the air leak, so I could cut the line and plug off the air to the flip, no problem it turned out one wheel didn't even have brake shoes anyway. I would just get someone to flip the axle, sure didn't need it on the ground anyway. Now on to the lights, new lights (cuz they were painted black) and still only had one tail light, no clearance lights at all. Well there was no way to get under it so, I pulled up one of the nice new boards and WOW. The main beams were rusted away, I am talking awa, gone, kput, she probably would have folded up if you loaded a 450 on it. I get the lights working and started getting the flip ready to flip and no can do, the trailer lights had been removed, years before, no wires there anymore even if there was something to mount them on, now on to plan B.
I called the buyer (owner) and explained I had it as legal as it was going to get, and would get it to him, BUT if I happened to get pulled over for inspection, that is where he could pick his trailer up at. I didn't have the heart, to tell him about the rusted out main frame.
He had literally bought a decent enough jeep and a flip that needed a brake job, the trailer itself was worth what ever scrap would bring.

Oh yea, even without the rust and the beat down side rails, the removable neck couldn't be used even if a guy hasd the hydraulics, as the connections had been bent up and finally just fixed solid.

Well I delivered it, you could not ask for a nicer guy. I pulled the board and showed him the rails telling him he could not under any circumstances load it.
he pointed to a 980 loader and said he had to stop getting drunk and bidding on ebay, said that loader was advertised to be ready to run, and it did run good, just needed a transmission to be able to use it. lol

A year or so later I saw the trailer set up on ebay again, story was he had inherited it and knew nothing about it.

starmac · January 18, 2018, 07:00:29 PM

Grizzly, you got watch them boys.
A few years ago My sister called and ask what I thought her husbands crotch rocket was worth. She said she had finally paid it off, and since he hadn't ridden it or even cranked it since it was 2 months old, she had took it to the dealer for a new battery and tune up,and was just going to sell it to them for what ever they would pay.
I told her what I would give and said I will buy it if they offer any lower, which was a steal anyway. Well she called back an hour or more and told me it was mine, her husband said he would rather do that than deal with the dealer, knowing they would low ball him.
A couple of months later I am on the road and my son, who is 16 years old at the time, calls and tells me he had bought a set of mudders for his bogger on ebay about 50 miles from the bike, and ask if I wanted him to grab it, since he had to go down there anyway. I am like you couldn't find tires closer than 700 iles away, yea buddy dad is not quite that stupid, sooo I told him, sure enough pick it up, but load it up and unload it without cranking it.

Grizzly · January 18, 2018, 07:35:55 PM

Knowing my luck I'll be buying them nightmares not joyrides! :D :D

Kwill · January 18, 2018, 09:06:55 PM

Haven't heard back from dad on the eBay buy. He emailed the guy and in guess hasn't heard back.

Banjo picker · January 18, 2018, 11:38:27 PM

I buy and sell a good bit on ebay. Number 2 son and I bought a semi trailer full of car parts and tools at an auction and we sold enough of the parts to pay for everything including the trailer in a couple of months. It had a lot of old vintage Moog front end parts from the 70's. There was one of the best cabinet sand blasters in there that I have ever seen...it was old but boy does it do a good job. Its a keeper. Banjo

Kbeitz · January 19, 2018, 06:50:52 AM

I spend waaay to much time on E-bay...

PA_Walnut · January 19, 2018, 07:22:05 AM

Is at least the turbo model? ;D :D

Kwill · January 19, 2018, 02:58:58 PM

Quote from: PA_Walnut on January 19, 2018, 07:22:05 AM
Is at least the turbo model? ;D :D

it wasn't a factory turbo car but the picture he showed of the engine was a twin turbo engine. So either he put a pic he found on the internet up or someone at some point put turbo engine in it. He claimed in the ad the car had 300 HP. Stock factory non turbo cars are 220 twin turbo was 320. So I don't think he knows what he has.