The last bid was I think $89100.
Without knowing all the facts we can only speculate on what happened.
The listing had the hallmarks that the vendor may have been the owner for 42 years. It doesn't seem plausible that a flipper would have only 5 stars from ebay - a couple for mundane purchases. If this was the case the vendor as an inexperienced ebay user may not have known that all the action was going to take place in the last half hour of the auction. (And it would have with new bidders coming all the time and huge number of viewers).
A flipper of course would know all of this and be doing all they can to talk the vendor into delisting early. We will know soon enough if this is what happened. (if so it will be interesting to see if the brakes are on it then - and possibly LSD trans).
Whether a flipper or a private party I guess this doesn't sit well with me because there is high potential that the vendor was deceived. The car is already out there and is going to sell for market value within 16hrs. The purchaser due to their knowledge has in essence deprived the vendor of receiving the true value and is unlikely to have offered more than they perceive the market to be - (not mention aggravating a bunch of potential purchasers).
Whats market? - I never got the opportunity to bid due to the early withdrawal but if someone wanted it as much as me at least $120k. I think the last Speedster project on ebay sold for $97k with matching motor. That was about two years ago and the market has moved significantly since then. The two prior to that were less money but also much "bigger" projects.
Hijacking a sale like this is in my opinion unethical. It is a different scenario to advertising, digging through barns using contacts and reputation, looking for cars or parts to purchase and bringing them to the market which I have no problem with.
Just my 2c worth
Without knowing all the facts we can only speculate on what happened.
The listing had the hallmarks that the vendor may have been the owner for 42 years. It doesn't seem plausible that a flipper would have only 5 stars from ebay - a couple for mundane purchases. If this was the case the vendor as an inexperienced ebay user may not have known that all the action was going to take place in the last half hour of the auction. (And it would have with new bidders coming all the time and huge number of viewers).
A flipper of course would know all of this and be doing all they can to talk the vendor into delisting early. We will know soon enough if this is what happened. (if so it will be interesting to see if the brakes are on it then - and possibly LSD trans).
Whether a flipper or a private party I guess this doesn't sit well with me because there is high potential that the vendor was deceived. The car is already out there and is going to sell for market value within 16hrs. The purchaser due to their knowledge has in essence deprived the vendor of receiving the true value and is unlikely to have offered more than they perceive the market to be - (not mention aggravating a bunch of potential purchasers).
Whats market? - I never got the opportunity to bid due to the early withdrawal but if someone wanted it as much as me at least $120k. I think the last Speedster project on ebay sold for $97k with matching motor. That was about two years ago and the market has moved significantly since then. The two prior to that were less money but also much "bigger" projects.
Hijacking a sale like this is in my opinion unethical. It is a different scenario to advertising, digging through barns using contacts and reputation, looking for cars or parts to purchase and bringing them to the market which I have no problem with.
Just my 2c worth
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