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Date: 7-2-08 01:25
From: Lee in Montreal  
Subject: Is eBay the new pricing benchmark?  
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If you read the classifieds, you would probably notice that I have asked for a pedal box to experiment with an MC bolted directly on it. I had three replies. Two guys offering them for respectively $50 and $60 and will buy two units, in rusfree condition. Then a third person that highlights that the current "eBay bearing price" is $160 and he will charge me only $120. To whom I politely replied that the market value I can judge is the offers I had for $50 and $60.
Then the guy starts insulting my intelligence telling me I have wasted his time.
Which instantaneously prompted two questions in my head.
Is 2002faq now trolled by eBay merchants in search of innocent victims?
And do you guys really use eBay now to set price standards on your used 2002 parts? As far as I remember we have seen suckers buy $2 parts for $200 on eBay...
Lee _________________ 
Brake harder. Go faster.
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Date: 7-2-08 01:56
From: markmac
Subject: NO
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I have sold a number of things on ebay, however most of what I have sold has been to private parties. The majority of what I had was pretty rare one-off stuff which makes pricing difficult. I had my Schnitzer 20-4 head on Ebay for a short while, a friend in Europe saw it and contacted me regarding the sale of it. He offered less than what I wanted. I told him the number was the number basically and that I didn't need to sell it to pay for other things and or my mortgage. He considered what I said and wired me the $$$ of my asking price. I wasn't being a Di_ck, I just had a price in my head and that is what I wanted. I probably could have got more from it by leaving it on Ebay (I pulled the listing when the deal was struck), in the end I was satisfied (although now I wish I hadn't sold it-too bad for me). Now to the other end of the spectrum, I bought two doors and a steering column and two hood hinges from double 02 salvage as I recall for $475. One door had the glass and what not in it the other was just a shell - both in pretty good shape. I forgot I needed a pair of hinges for one of the doors so I went back......$20 - I looked at the guy like "are you kidding"? ......er he wasn't. So I layed out $20 + tax and took my hinges - I needed them and didn't have time to fool around. With regards to selling parts some people are pretty arrogant - something is worth what someone is willing to pay on a given day and time - no more, no less.
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Date: 7-2-08 02:12
From: Lee in Montreal
Subject: Re: NO
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Hi Mark
Can you forward me a link to a picture of your Alpina pedal box with directly mounted MC? I am trying to see what Alpina did for the gaz pedal. I am tempted to put the cable mechanism within the pedal box. Not on the right, on the exterior.
Lee _________________
Brake harder. Go faster.
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Date: 7-2-08 02:49
From: markmac
Subject: email address please. (nt)
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Date: 7-2-08 04:14
From: Dermass in Sudbury, MA.
Subject: Re: email address please. (nt)
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I have a pedal box you can have if you still need it, grime and all.
better luck with email dereknu at hotmail dot com _________________ www.dereks2002.blogspot.com
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Date: 7-2-08 05:52
From: 72touring
Subject: Re: Is eBay the new pricing benchmark?
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I will continue to take eBay with a boulder-size grain of salt, as both a buyer and seller. All it takes is one crazy/uneducated/desperate buyer as a 'fool factor' to skew reality. Just because someone pays $340.00 plus shipping for a slatless right grill (that you can get new from Max for around $313.00), doesn't mean it's worth $340.00. It simply means someone paid $340.00. Pricing on both ends is about availability, condition and average perceived values, not a single extreme case or situation... _________________ Paul Huber
1972 2000 Touring tii in Verona
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Date: 7-2-08 07:30
From: dubois in Hollister, (near SJ) California
Subject: Re: email address please. (nt)
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Lee, I hate ebay, it is full of crooks. I never received the European Magazine issue that I won, I email back and forth for six months and the seller always came up with an excuse, until he never return my emails or my check! It was about $20 bucks, and not worth pursuing it, but still...
I would like to get the banner one of these days, so I will keep looking...
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72 tii A4, 72 tii Alpina, 98 M3 coupe
Don't argue with anyone that will not consider the possibility of being wrong...
the future is a dream, the present infinitesimally brief, but the memories are forever...
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Date: 7-3-08 09:10
From: PatAllen in Quebec
Subject: Re: Is eBay the new pricing benchmark?
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ebay=auction site
2002faq=enthusiast community to help each others
it happened to me 2 or 3 times that a guy suggested me a price based on the e-bay pricing. Ignore those guys, period. They are not looking to help you but to make profit out of things that worth close to nothing in reality.
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1976 turbocharged 2002, 14psi, T3, 70%LSD, urethane bush, 36x15 intercooler, 63mm tby,SDS EM4F, 5sp overdrive. Bilsts. Tech edge wb02, datalogger, recaros.
1974 2002 auto (under resto)
1992 325i
1991 318is
1985 XR4TI, 22psi
1986 Toyota pick-up
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