Looking to buy a CLK Black Series
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My point is that the seller may have been bidding on his own item. To have a 20% difference between the buy it now price and the high bid doesn't seem right. I mean c'mon, there's at least 2 black/ silver BS' on auto trader in the low 60s with less than 20k miles and they've been sitting for months. This one has 54k miles. time will tell.....if it shows up on ebay again I've got a hunch there was bid rigging involved .
and further to my pt... http://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-s...80376025&Log=0
...been sitting on autotrader at $55k for a while. i think anyone who's shopping for a BS is going to check autotrader before bidding on the same car on ebay.
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I have nothing to do with this auction (I haven't even looked at it), but I sold a car through eBay a few years ago and had the exact same thing happen: I listed it with a buy-it-now price that was less than what it ultimately sold for. As Wannac63 mentioned, once the bidding reaches a certain point below the BIN price, the BIN option goes away. Put another way, if the BIN price is $100, then the BIN option goes away once the bidding hits $75 (I'm just making up numbers). If you get two or more people who want the car and keep bidding, then the price can easily exceed the BIN price. In my case, I set the BIN price intentionally lower than what I thought it was worth because I wanted to sell it fast. It ended up selling for MORE than what I thought it was worth (i.e., I wouldn't have bought it for the price it sold, but I wasn't about to complain because obviously it was worth more to two other people than it was to me).
The only thing "wrong" about this is the two bidders (i.e., the winning and the other guy) should have recognized a great deal in the beginning instead of trying to "steal" it for a really, really low price. Maybe the seller did bid against it, I have no way of knowing, but a car selling above a BIN price can be completely legit.
The only thing "wrong" about this is the two bidders (i.e., the winning and the other guy) should have recognized a great deal in the beginning instead of trying to "steal" it for a really, really low price. Maybe the seller did bid against it, I have no way of knowing, but a car selling above a BIN price can be completely legit.
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I have nothing to do with this auction (I haven't even looked at it), but I sold a car through eBay a few years ago and had the exact same thing happen: I listed it with a buy-it-now price that was less than what it ultimately sold for. As Wannac63 mentioned, once the bidding reaches a certain point below the BIN price, the BIN option goes away. Put another way, if the BIN price is $100, then the BIN option goes away once the bidding hits $75 (I'm just making up numbers). If you get two or more people who want the car and keep bidding, then the price can easily exceed the BIN price. In my case, I set the BIN price intentionally lower than what I thought it was worth because I wanted to sell it fast. It ended up selling for MORE than what I thought it was worth (i.e., I wouldn't have bought it for the price it sold, but I wasn't about to complain because obviously it was worth more to two other people than it was to me).
The only thing "wrong" about this is the two bidders (i.e., the winning and the other guy) should have recognized a great deal in the beginning instead of trying to "steal" it for a really, really low price. Maybe the seller did bid against it, I have no way of knowing, but a car selling above a BIN price can be completely legit.
The only thing "wrong" about this is the two bidders (i.e., the winning and the other guy) should have recognized a great deal in the beginning instead of trying to "steal" it for a really, really low price. Maybe the seller did bid against it, I have no way of knowing, but a car selling above a BIN price can be completely legit.
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i am looking at the BS forsale at Expo motorcars, anyone have background on it or looked at it in person? www.expomc.com
http://www.expomc.com/details.php?id=8F233442A
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Thanks Mike, I am having it inspected today by Texas-German Autohaus in Houston. They just replaced the rack and pinion on the car and did a service. Hopefully it all checks out and I will be a proud owner of a BS... Finally
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