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924S Auto on Ebay

Fred Hindle

Fred Hindle

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PORSCHE 924 S AUTO 2.5
Item number: 140145111097
Does anyone know this car? I don't need to buy a runner but don't want to buy a total lemon. A lot of bits that could be used on mine.
It is in the Birmingham area. If someone would be willing to have a look at it for me I'm sure we could come to some arrangement. Auction ends on Sunday.
Cheers,
 
I presume you mean item 140145760362

This car is previously known to PCGB but I do not have a Register form for this vehicle.
I have rung the previous keeper and left an answer-phone message.
 
Ebay pulled the item as their rules were infringed.
Re-listed, ended Sunday. I missed it by £10 and 3 seconds - someone sniped me.
Final price £460.01
Hey ho!
(Edited as it sounded a bit terse when I read it).[:)]
Cheers,
 
No, there is more fun in trying to win in by placing your bid in the last few seconds. Unfortunately had to go out so wasn't by the computer at the auction's end.
(Some people would say I have enough so not a major loss, plus the fact that they're will be others in the future).
 
With Broadband I prefer to just press the confirm button with 5 seconds to go. Broadband seems consistent at about 2 seconds to send.

" Missed by £10". Yes, maybe ... but maybe not.

A year or two back I bid on a 1930's aeroplane engine for a vintage car project (still slowly accumulating parts!) and bid £805.55.
I won with about £610 and quite probably the underbidder thought he had 'lost' it by 'only' £10. But the reality was that he would have had to bid another £200+ to beat me.
 
Muddy,
The 'missed by £10' was just to point out that my maximum bid was £450 and the winning amount was £460. The other guy could have put a grand on it and still have won it for £460.[:)]
Regular users of ebay will most likely have won things for less then their maximum bids, I know I have.
You only need to get two people to put silly amounts in and you could end up paying well over the odds.
All part of the fun.

Cheers
 
Fred. You are obviously a seasoned eBay user. Probably, like me, you just wish they ran the site a bit better. Having found cast-iron evidence of a Power-seller using shill bidding to falsely and illegally push up prices on his own items, I duly notified eBay with a mass of detail on numerous transactions.
Result ?
They took not a blind bit of notice and the Power-shiller is still at it ..... Ho hum.

As regards your original post it is interesting to see that prices for both 'project' 924S and 944 are coming down closer to the very low levels that 924's have reached. As my old friend who ran a scrapyard used to say "Henry Ford made 15 million Model T's and we need to scrap 14,999,000 before the remainder will be worth much" !
 
Hello Muddy,
Yes, my bank manager must be cry in his boots anytime ayone mentions ebay and me in the same breath!
Often go on it and put crazy things in the search just to see if there is anyone selling it.
Excellent way of doing some buying without the hassle of actually having to go to a shop (or find someone who sells it). I assume like me you scrutinise the person's feedback rating, some are absolutely terrible scores and people still buy off them.

944 prices are dropping, there again, there are some dogs out there. A good one will always hold its value better.
Cheers,
 
In my case the biggest worry is not the bank manager but the other half ....
Luckily she has not - as yet - mastered computers despite doing a "Computers for the terrified" course.
I suspect a project 944 will eventually end up here, I am tempted. Was looking at that burgundy coloured 944 last night.
"... needs rings and valve seals as smoking and failed MOT". I thought 944's had alloy bores and that re-boring is not possible as acid-etching is then needed to get crystal structure correct for oil retention ?
I quite enjoy mechanical rebuilds but there are limits.
Mind you it might only be the valve seals and guides ...............
 
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