Re: eBay (Don't Ring the Death Knell Yet!)

[Michael Carmody & Lucy Alfonso <carmody@kcisp.net>]

Andre:

Buck up, little camper. I just got a complete '67 Squareback on eBay for $255! http://www.kcisp.net/~carmody/sra2000.html

Sure, there will be profiteers in any slim market, but these things will work themselves out. As long as demand for the
parts stays up, aftermarket repro parts will be manufactured to replace them.

You may not like to use reproductions, but NOS/used parts are a known (and diminishing) quantity. Like gasoline -- when
there's no more, there's no more.

And besides, on eBay, it's not the seller's fault that someone will pay three times more than you think is fair. If the
sellers set their opening bids really, really high, then VW lovers should have the good sense not to bid at all. If these
clowns want to sell their stuff, they'll have to lower their reserves to a closer approximation of street market value.

Something is worth exactly as much as someone is willing to pay for it.

Vive le Veewee,
Carmody


> From: "shackedup" <shackedup@home.com>
>
> I have seen an alarming trend in our electronic world.  People with some
> money come around and buy up all of our NOS and precious used parts then put them for sale on Ebay at twice or three
> times the price they paid.

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