From: Nigel Hay -MILWEB (Nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Thu Apr 07 2005 - 06:59:27 PDT
I am reminded of the tale od man who bought a Maybach Panther engine fully
working in Belgium , had to take down a hospital wall to remove it from the
buiding it was running a generator from..........
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Behalf Of M. Thirtyseven
Sent: 07 April 2005 15:36
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Subject: Re: [MV] eBay tale of woe....
Emory area..??? grab some strapping collage types offer them a couple of 6
packs to haul it down to the street...
>From: "Michael S. Nichols" <m.s.nichols@comcast.net>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Subject: [MV] eBay tale of woe....
>Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:18:50 -0400
>
>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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