From: ygmir (ygmir@onemain.com)
Date: Sat May 17 2003 - 09:40:04 PDT
I second what Jack said, but would add Alex at "Idaho Motor Pool",
especially for the west coast. I've bought a couple of trucks and other
stuff from him, and it has been all he promised and usually more.
I drove one home 600+ miles without a hiccup, and looked good doing it! ha
ha.
Henry
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Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] GL BIDDING SUGGESTIONS-
> If I had to do it all over again I think I would skip
> the auction. I would rather buy from a professional
> who knows trucks, like we have on our list. You know
> guys like Gene and Joe. These are standup people who
> you can trust. The small profit they make is well
> worth the peace of mind you get buying and knowing
> what you got. You also don't have to wait 6 mos for
> your EUC and wonder if your truck is getting stripped
> or damaged.
>
> Now as to the bidding strategy if you are determined
> to bid, here's what has happened to me. I would bid a
> max of about $1675 on a deuce if it's within 1000
> miles or less to my home.
>
> Unless you can be guaranteed you can drive home, it's
> going to cost at least $1+ per mile to transport and
> by the time it gets here and I pay DMV I figured I
> should have less than $3000 in it to make it work for
> me in case I have to resell it. You can buy some nice
> deuces retail for $3500-$4000 and avoid all the
> auction risk and hassles. You are going to spend
> $300-600 on average to add/repair stuff too. Always
> happens, so figure that in.
>
> Bottom line, you got to buy it right or forget it. I
> think its too much risk vs reward if you have to pay
> mor than $1900 for a deuce at auction. Thanks to that
> logic, I have been [outbid] on at least 15 deuces and
> I finally got one! Took 2 years of screwing around!
>
> A few times I was outbid by $10 or $20 bucks by
> somebody at the very end...thats frustrating. But, in
> California if the truck looks decent you can get out-
> bid by thousands. People here seem bid them up way
> too high. I recall a couple of 5 ton cargo trucks
> that were good to just ok, bidding went around $11k
> and the other went for 15k! IMHO that is [nuts] when
> you really don't know what you are getting... I mean
> you don't even get a test drive, right? lol
>
> The one truck I finally did get was from Barstow. GL
> had zero info. on it other than pic. and they had a
> lot of other trucks to sell. No year, no mileage,
> nothing...just a pic. I took a big chance and bid on
> it via proxy. Proxy ran out in the last 10 minutes.
> GL picked up on the activity and extended the close
> time! That really pissed me off. Anyway, I had to
> bump another bidder at the end about 3 times and I
> finally got it after paying more than I wanted.
> Wasn't sure I even wanted it at that point, but after
> being outbid so many times before this was it for me.
> I lucked out on the truck. Truck was overall pretty
> good shape, save for some lousy tack welds on the
> fender, some fork lift damage by GL and some rust
> welds around hood hinges... working on all that now,
> plus a very tiny air leak somewhere in the fuel
> system.
>
> Good luck, but like I said if I had to do it over
> again I would get a truck through one of our list
> people. They're real good folks to deal with and as
> fair as you will ever see anywhere. Price is well
> worth knowing what you get, not to mention the time
> you save! Remember it took me 2 years of bidding to
> finally get one!
>
> Jack (Chico-CA)
>
>
>
> --- "Fred H. Schlesinger" <fred@schlesingers.net>
> wrote:
> > No, Tom, I wasn't kidding. I have a much more
> > obvious sense of humor than that.
> > I'm sure that at any particular time, most of the
> > list members are not in the
> > market for a truck. (mv content)
> >
> > And, for those who do want to acquire a truck at the
> > same time, there are
> > hundreds for sale each quarter, so the chances that
> > one list member would be
> > bidding against another is small.
> > So, by sharing how they are successful, they could
> > help a novice like me from
> > making an ass out of myself by driving the price up
> > early, or making some other
> > mistake that I haven't even thought of, should I
> > decide to deal with GL.
> >
> > Or did you mean that the question was silly or self
> > evident?
> >
> > Fred
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "tom bauer" <milveh@carr.org>
> > To: "Fred H. Schlesinger" <fred@schlesingers.net>
> > Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 7:45 PM
> > Subject: Re: [MV] Gl BIDDING STRATEGY
> >
> >
> > | you're kidding, right??
> > | tom
> > |
> > |
> > |
> >
> >
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