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Now where have we seen this before?

Mitch returns! 10,000 start w/ a reserve!! guess Si wouldn't be interested

Bill

Thats a neat old truck.

Don't think it's 10 large worth of neat, but neat, none the less.

sellers nuts

There's a truck exactly like that up the road and John took a picture of it. We were picking up some stuff with our trailer when we saw it.

It is (or was) somewhere on this site. But I can't figure out where.

This is going to drive me nuts.

Peg

Ah schucks !, Nobody bid on it, this time.

My guess is you'd have to have more money than brains to pay 10G's for that truck.

Or be on crack.

Unfortunately for the seller, most crackheads spent all their money already.

Sellers still nuts.

Wheres the fun in buying a nice old truck? A large part of the pleasure of old trucks is in finding parts,acquiring them,installing them,driving a piece of history,being able to say "Like my truck? I built it myself." ( I also like to add,when somebody in a new rig makes disparaging comments on my old beater,"Okay,your truck might be faster right now;let's race these two trucks in 25 years,if you can still make yours run.")

Some dudes just don't have the time, knowledge, or desire to hunt down parts and put it together.. to those folks, they just want a "turn key" vehicle.. their enjoyment comes from just driving it, not building it.

That truck dosen't look bad, and apparently runs well, but based on the description, isn't restored, either.

I'd guess if the guy were to drop his opening bid to somewhere in the $6,000 range he might get a bite on it, but ten grand is pretty steep.

First off, it's HUGE which cuts the intrested buyer pool in half or more, since the buyer is going to need a place to park it.

Second, it's a COE.. I don't think there are nearly as many intrested buyers in the COE market as there are in the "conventional cab" market.

Third, alot of dudes who bag a COE for serious hauling put 350's in them, and mount the engine behind the cab.. don't know how well that would work with that monster box on it.

Fourth, how the heck would you get it? You'd need a monster flatbed to haul that thing home, unless you drove it.. either way, if the intrested buyer didn't live close, it would cost some bucks to get it home, i'll bet.

I guess it would be neat to use it to haul your classic car to the show.. but not nearly as neat or fun to DRIVE your classic car to the show.

In short, to sell it even at the $6,000 mark, you're going to have to find a very specialised buyer for that sort of vehicle that has the bucks to have it transported, or lives close by.

The more I think about it, $2500 is probably a more reasonable starting price.

Fumblin, They had that special buyer,on two different occasions. One bid on it up to $13K, but a "No Feedback", bidder jumped in at the last second, & out bid him. I saw this no feedback bidder snip the truck twice. Then we see the truck return, on ebay, 2 more times, from same seller. I may be wrong, but I believe, they just got greedy.

Sounds like they were using a shill bidder account to kick up the final sale price and it backfired on 'em.

People who shill bid should be shot. No trial, no due process, straight to the firing squad.

Secret reserves suck, too. I say people should just decide the absolute lowest amount they're willing to sell an item for, and start the bidding there.

My guess is that it's a small number of folks who would pay premium scratch for that truck, and they all probably saw what you saw, the suspected shill bid at the last minute.

I can understand it when a 0 feedback bidder snipes an auction.. but when the SAME 0 FEEDBACK BIDDER snipes it on a relist, it's enough to make me not bother to bid on anything that seller is offering.