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Date:         Sat, 9 Aug 2003 12:09:17 -0500
Reply-To:     Brett Baer <brettbaer@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Brett Baer <brettbaer@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      All Vanagon owners aren't JERKS...are they?  Please read this!!!
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This email really has no purpose other than to vent some frustration and to warn other Vanagon enthusiasts from dealing with one of the biggest assholes I have EVER dealt with. Here it goes.

I am a 20 year old college student I need a Carat to use as parts, so I found one for sale on autotrader.com. Pretty rough physical condition, front-end damage from collision with a deer, the interior is really dirty; but, mechanically good condition. I contact the owner and he sends me more pictures of the van. I decide to pay the $1500 asking price and buy a one-way bus ticket from Austin, TX (where I live) to Lawrence, KS (45 minutes from the owner's house), an overnight, 18 hour, $65 ticket. The owner had agreed to pick me up at the bus stop in Lawrence and then I would drive the van back to Texas. All the details were worked out, this was not a capricious decision. To make a long story short, when I arrived in Lawrence the guy had a bunch of excuses why he couldn't pick me up. After a couple of hours at the bus stop on my cell phone working his lame excuses out, so that he had no more to offer, he says over the phone, "Forget it Brett...I'm not selling you the van", hangs up the phone and doesn't answer my calls. I resist the urge to get a taxi to the guys house because the only thing I could do was fight him; I couldn't force him to sell me the van. I figured he would probably just call the cops if I showed up demanding the title and keys. So, I go into the gas station, I mean bus stop, that I had been sitting outside of all morning after my over-night trip and buy a return ticket to austin ($105) and spend another day/night on the bus back to austin. I don't want this to happen to anyone else, or myself again.

So no matter what you do, don't try to buy this guy's car:

John "A-hole" Schubert of Midwest Flying Service 804 Pennsylvania Ave. Leavenworth, KS 66048

He is selling a 1990 Vanagon Carat blue w/ grey moulding/interior, driver-side front-end damage from collision with deer, around 120k miles.

Avoid this guy at all costs. I am still confused about what actually happened to me these past couple of days, I guess I am in shock. I can't believe anyone would do this. All I do know is that I am $200 poorer and 3 miserable days older and depressed because I still need a parts van to finish the resto of my Syncro Westy.

If anyone has any creative ideas of how I can seek some retribution from this guy please let me know, maybe BenT can lend me the shotgun he's been talking about (just kidding).

My stomach hurts just thinking about it, Brett Baer Austin, TX '87 Syncro Westy

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