73 Coupe

What are these bidders thinking? That they can buy it for $10K if they bid in $200 increments? I must have put the update in the Registry back in 2012!
 
I've seen this car in person a couple of years ago. Not a fan of the interior wood color or the steering wheel.
 
HB Chris said:
What are these bidders thinking? That they can buy it for $10K if they bid in $200 increments? I must have put the update in the Registry back in 2012!
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I suspect that bidder is either a friend of the owner putting in dummy bids (fake bids to up the price, without realizing others can see what he is doing), or he is using one of those auto bid program, bidding sniper software that is malfunctioning for him :shock:
 
Always curious if people bidding on these cars have performed PPIs yet?
 
Stan said:
Comment on the positive aspects too please. Did it appear solid? Anything else we should know?
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The interior was done by G. Invisible Design that paradoxically keeps its logo very visible.
 
It has the same two tone door pulls that I have (black upper, blue main piece). I guess they are truly NLA.

Those wheels are hideous!
 
Stan said:
Comment on the positive aspects too please. Did it appear solid? Anything else we should know?
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Stan, I wish I had spent the time to look carefully at it and be more helpful but it was at a local BMW show where I just quickly glanced over it, noticed the interior and walked away. If memory serves me right it was at the annual BMW show at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena two or three years ago.
 
850CSi rims were either 17" Throwing Stars, or in very late models, 18" M-Parallels. Both types of rims were staggered widths. The "chromed" 16" basket weave rims shown were an option on both 840's and 850's but not on the 850CSi, and never from the factory in chrome.

Owning both an 850CSi and a 840Ci, I tried the 840's rims on my 2800CS and the offset was totally wrong without spacers.
 
HB Chris said:
Check it out, one bidder kept upping his bid by $200, 60 times! Nine days left to go and already at $39,600, he started around $17K. Wish we knew the VIN.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BMW-Other-3...18ed8591a&item=281569417498&pt=US_Cars_Trucks
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okay, this car didn't sell ... it bid up to 49,500 and didn't reach the reserve or the buy it now price of 49,950. so something tells me that he had a couple of buddies bidding it up ... and finally hanging out just below the reserve ... so the next bidder would clear the reserve. now it has a track record of having been bid up to 49,500 ... and so now he relists it at 49,500 or make an offer. if they were real bids, he would have either given a second chance to somebody ... or he would have lowered his reserve.

really fishy smelling deal ... and sneaky way of going about it.
 
rsporsche said:
okay, this car didn't sell ... it bid up to 49,500 and didn't reach the reserve or the buy it now price of 49,950. so something tells me that he had a couple of buddies bidding it up ... and finally hanging out just below the reserve ... so the next bidder would clear the reserve. now it has a track record of having been bid up to 49,500 ... and so now he relists it at 49,500 or make an offer. if they were real bids, he would have either given a second chance to somebody ... or he would have lowered his reserve.

really fishy smelling deal ... and sneaky way of going about it.
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That does sound odd. When I've sold cars on eBay at work, we usually contact the few highest bidders after the auction and see what we can work out. I wouldn't let a deal die over $500.
 
rsporsche said:
okay, this car didn't sell ... it bid up to 49,500 and didn't reach the reserve or the buy it now price of 49,950. so something tells me that he had a couple of buddies bidding it up ... and finally hanging out just below the reserve ... so the next bidder would clear the reserve. now it has a track record of having been bid up to 49,500 ... and so now he relists it at 49,500 or make an offer. if they were real bids, he would have either given a second chance to somebody ... or he would have lowered his reserve.

really fishy smelling deal ... and sneaky way of going about it.
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Isn't this what real auction companies do sometimes to get things moving?
Real meaning BJ, RM, AA, , etc.
 
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