Re: [MV] eBay tale of woe....

From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Wed Apr 06 2005 - 19:29:31 PDT


It weighs 500 pounds? The trailer won't fit down the driveway? Adapt,
improvise, overcome.

Get nine friends/neighbors to help carry the thing to the curb, where the
trailer is sitting by prearrangement.

10 people into 500 pounds = 50 pounds per person.

Next question?

apb

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael S. Nichols" <m.s.nichols@comcast.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 10:18 PM
Subject: [MV] eBay tale of woe....

> Hello fellow listees,
>
> I thought I would share my tale of eBay woe with you all, in the hopes
that
> you will not make the same mistakes. In early Feb of this year I listed
my
> M151A2 repro body for sale on Ebay, and the sale closed on 17 Feb 05. The
> purchaser had 15 days to remove the M151 body from my property. Well,
here
> it is 6 April, and the 500 lb steel body now sits outside my enclosed shop
> in my back yard to the delight of my neighbors here in the Emory
University
> neighborhood. The purchaser did attempt to trailer it home within the 15
> days, but the trailer he brought from Columbia SC was too wide for my
> driveway. On the bright side of things, I did get all but $125 of my sale
> price that fateful day in cash. So what did I do wrong? I neglected to
> state anything in my EBay listing about a per diem storage fee if the body
> was not removed promptly within the 15 day period. I also neglected to
> state a consequence in my Ebay listing if the body was not removed by a
> certain date.
>
> The purchaser assures me that he will pick it up "soon", and pay me the
> remaining $125 at that time. However, he has not jumped at my suggestion
> offered a month ago that he rent a proper sized trailer and come and get
> this item ASAP. I am beginning to feel a bit put upon........Any
> suggestions from the list? Thanks in advance!
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike Nichols
> 1972 M151A2 Project vehicle
> Repro A2 body to be used as a tomato planter
>
>
>
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