Mint, low miles W124 E280 !!

[Asif Kazani]

Seems quite nice
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270015472889&ssPageName=MERC_VIC_ReBay_Pr4_PcY_BID_IT

 

[500E]

This E280 reached very close to £3000 last time - wonder why it was relisted?

 

[imadoofus]

It is nice, but very low-spec.

It's good to know that 69k is considered 'low miles', cos my coupe's only on 72 :bannana:

PJ

 

[Vlad]

Cloth and lack of air will count against it......sadly

 

[Asif Kazani]

Cloth and lack of air will count against it......sadly

Oops! Didn't notice it! Sorry you all! This could be why it is relisted as 500E pointed out above.

Regards,
Asif.

 

[big x]

This E280 reached very close to £3000 last time - wonder why it was relisted?

This is the mob who have been suspended before for shill bidding.
Hoover up stock at auctions,good,bad or ugly and spray them with water and take shinny pics.Original bidder probably woke up to the fact he paid over the odds and backed out....these go for circa £1200 at auction.




adam

 

[Vlad]

Whats shill bidding?

 

[DITTRICH]

I think its where relatively new users with little or no feedback are used to test whether people have reached their maximum bid. This way they extract more money from the buyer. They are posing as a dummy buyer bidding against you in their own auction. This is absolutely why I never bid on any ebay item until the last few seconds of the auction. I bid once at the price I feel the item is worth and a few seconds later its all over.
Les

 

[Vlad]

Ah....I suppose that this is how they always manage to sell their cars with No Reserve, ie they get somebody to bid the car up until it hits the amount they are prepared to sell the car for and hey bingo the next bidder buys the car and thinks he's getting a great deal as its a No Reserve auction.

I have to say though they are selling a lot of cars by the looks of it

 

[Parrot of Doom]

Top of the range? Top of the low spec range perhaps....

 

[imadoofus]

Whats shill bidding?

Oddly enough, I looked this up today. It's when a seller bids for his own stuff under an alias to push the price up. In old-fashioned auctions, it's a bit like taking bids off the wall.

This is absolutely why I never bid on any ebay item until the last few seconds of the auction.

Drives me bonkers. A couple of years ago, I regularly used to take part in online tenders to supply supermarkets with stuff. Their auctions are set to start at X time, and run for, say, 3 hours. Any bid within five minutes of the auction end extends the close for 15 minutes. And so does the next. And so on.

I was in an auction with a plan of 3 hours. Towards the end, there were three bidders left, and the auction ran for nearly 8 hours!. I was still in the office, shaving 0.1p off my bids at 10pm!!

And I lost

Let's see Ebay try that system....

PJ

 

[imadoofus]

Ah....I suppose that this is how they always manage to sell their cars with No Reserve

And that's another thing. How can you sell with no reserve if you set the starting price? That's a reserve! In a real auction, the auctioneer will suggest a starting price, and then be prepard to go backwards if nobody bids there.

PJ

 

[A-AvantGarde]

... A couple of years ago, I regularly used to take part in online tenders to supply supermarkets with stuff. Their auctions are set to start at X time, and run for, say, 3 hours. Any bid within five minutes of the auction end extends the close for 15 minutes. And so does the next. And so on.

I was in an auction with a plan of 3 hours. Towards the end, there were three bidders left, and the auction ran for nearly 8 hours!. I was still in the office, shaving 0.1p off my bids at 10pm!!

And I lost

Let's see Ebay try that system....

PJ

We got involved in some of these, seemed to be all the rage a few years ago, reverse auctions where you've got to put in your lowest price. Really frustrating, used to hate the rules on bis in the last x minutes

 

[Carrotchomper]

Having said all of the above, if that plate comes with the car you could probably get at least a grand for it if the right buyer came along, so that would make it a cheap purchase!

Wouldn't bother personally with the low spec and all. Just has a bit of an air of rattiness about it....