I would like to make an "Ass Hat" for Halloween next year. Should i
start by promising multiple people 1 item and then selling it to
somebody else?
Mark V
On Tuesday, November 9, 2004, at 01:53 PM, timnagin wrote:
>
> Ah, this was back in the day when we were bashing people. Wait...
> never
> mind.
>
> Anyway, this guy was in middle Tennessee and had bought three De
> Loreans
> from an estate sale. Two were nice, running cars and one was a pile of
> parts on a rolling frame. Two other people and I helped this guy a
> lot in
> getting the other two running right so he could sell them. We later
> found
> out he had promised the third parts car to more than one of us.
>
> He promised I would have first refusal rights, well, he promised that
> to all
> of us really. He later put it on eBay, but still told me if I wanted
> it he
> would just end the auction. When I stated I wanted it, he said he had
> to
> pay more business tax than he thought and, unfortunately, would have to
> leave the car on eBay to get as much as he could. Later I found out
> he had
> promised the same to other people, and apparently didn't know the
> people who
> he had promised the car to were all working together to help him out.
> So,
> he profited greatly from us and screwed all of us. No one heard who
> bought
> the car or where it went. You can probably search the DML archives for
> something like "sad Delorean on eBay".
>
> To make a long story just a bit longer, I posted on the DML for "buyer
> beware" and he retaliated with some bullshit that he was sorry I
> couldn't
> afford it. The car ended up selling on eBay for about $3,000.00
> believe it
> or not.
>
> I just posted three pictures of the car in the photo section and you
> can
> clearly see this is the same driver's side fender.
>
> Greg
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe OBrien [mailto:joeyoseppijoe@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 1:59 AM
> To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [DMCForum] Re: the original asshat...
>
>
>
>
> Actually I don't, who is this guy. I see he is supposedly in Oak
> Harbor which is like 20 minutes away from me. Is there some stigma
> with this guy?
>
> Almost makes me want to buy these fenders just to use them to drive
> to a tech session to horrify everyone with the worst fenders ever,
> tell everyonw I got caught in a hail storm. Looks like they were
> crumpled up, and he beat them flat with a hammer. Aside from a
> destroyed fender, this has got to be the worst.
>
>
> Joe
>
>
>
> --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "timnagin" <timnagin@xxxx> wrote:
>> Remember him and the "parts car" he sold on eBay some time ago? I
> think we
>> have found, in part, what happened to the car.
>>
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
> ViewItem&category=34204&item
>> =4502830260&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
>>
>> Greg
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