Date:         Tue, 1 Jun 2010 12:46:49 -0700
Reply-To:     neil n <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         neil n <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: 88 Westy FS mystery
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On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Rob <becida@comcast.net> wrote:
> I've been to the auction and watched a car sell then saw that same
> car on craigslist that evening. That craigslist ad came with a
> cock-and-bull story about an inheritance and having used that car to
> commute for months. The key for me was having to wait for the title,
> I would have believed the advertisers story if I had not seen it sold
> that day. Nothing wrong with turning a car fast but telling lies
> about your history with it.
>
> I guess this craigslist ad doesn't make any claims that couldn't be
> proven and it does not mention a title.
>
> As always, buyer beware.
>



With my Westy, seller verbally claimed he 'bought it at a fund raising
event, (auction, raffle) and needed it gone cuz wife sez we can't
afford it, needed the room etc.' In hindsight, likely he was a curber.

More importantly, a curber who knew to flip it at a seasonally good
time. Still. It ran fine.

Re: CL ad in question. More clues: upper case in ad. Likely a trick to
get attention. An experienced seller might do this. And some or all
pics in CL ad look same as pics in eBay listing. Who's to say he
didn't just get a high bid, not sell it, realize the seasonal market
value, then list it for more on CL? I mean Lakewood isn't *that* far
from Tacoma right?

Even if CL seller won it off eBay, from eBay to CL in a heartbeat
seems like business as usual to me. But like Rob says.....

Neil.


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