Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:10:37 -0500
Reply-To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Now It's Down To 3K-Steal It Now!
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Can't be too sure... in the case I witnessed, the ads said things like
"my father in law got this to restore but lost interest. He doesn't
have internet access so he asked me to sell it for him." A blatant lie
to make you think you were dealing with an individual, when it was a
five-acre lot with twenty employees.
My suggestion for the operators of Craigslist and eBay both is to have
subcategories you can check (like the pulldown menu choice for "new"
and "used" on ebay) called "crap" and "lie." If stuff was found to be
miscategorized by ad readers, it could be flagged for removal. Right
now it can't.
Jim
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:32 PM, fonman4277@comcast.net
<fonman4277@comcast.net> wrote:
> No, in this case the seller had started out at $4,500.00 for a non running
> van he bought at an auction and is trying to flip for profit.
>
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Jim Felder" <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
> Date: Thu, Apr 19, 2012 12:54
> Subject: Now It's Down To 3K-Steal It Now!
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>
> In fairness to the seller, there may be more than one culprit
> involved. I once drove a friend to Memphis to pick up a passat for his
> daughter. During the hour or so it took to do the paperwork and
> contact the bank and such, I got an eyeful of what was going on. They
> had a short row of the raggedest vw campers of all types that you have
> ever seen. They had one crew of 20-somethings working to make them
> cosmetically presentable by swapping interior parts, etc. Man, there
> were messed-up ugly. Then, inside the "control room" were another
> bunch of 20-somethings whose job it was to list everything they had.
> You could tell they were laying down a formula invented by and in most
> cases approved by the so-called management. The kids had no idea what
> they were talking about, they just put stuff in the ads that the
> owners has said worked before.
>
> I did talk to the guy who ran the WV operation; he was not the same
> person who was running the business that my friend was buying from,
> thank goodness.
>
> Think of it like a food processing plant, not as a single idiot owner.
>
> Jim
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Jeff Lincoln <magikvw@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I see - I read quickly and missed the sarcasm.
>>
>> What you don't think the buyer could put $5000 more into it and then sell
>> it at Go Westy prices? ;)
>>
>>
>> Jeff
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