![]() This Volvo P1800 is still listed for sale for a reduced price of $21,800 – only $900 above my wife’s bid five months ago! I sent a follow up email on January 29 and had no response so I sent another email on February 2 and received a quick reply with a promise to “get in touch tomorrow”. The auction ended on January 28, we sent an email on January 28 to the seller and I spoke with the seller on January 29. ![]() One of the simple questions was “What is the minimum price?” Since we made the last offer during the auction and did not meet the reserve then it is up to the seller to tell me what it takes to buy the car. I also had a few email exchanges with the dealer but he did not answer all of my simple questions nor did he get back to me as promised. I asked about some rust visible in the photos on the listing. The dealer assured me this car was not a Katrina car and it had only been in Louisiana for one year. Born in Louisiana, I know what the humidity is like down there. I was concerned about potential water damage and rust. I stepped in to help my wife and had a phone call with the dealer, located in New Orleans, who had the car on consignment. When I learned who the seller was (a dealer), I went to their web site and found the Volvo listed for a price of $25,000. After the auction was over Bring a Trailer introduced my wife to the seller to see if she could make a deal – but then not much happened! My wife was the high bidder (at $20,900 USD) on this 1971 Volvo P1800 on January 28 but the reserve was not met. If they don’t follow through as agreed there are consequences. On Bring a Trailer the buyer and seller are committed to selling if the reserve is met and to buying if they are the high bidder and the reserve is met. “ebay is not really an auction but a glorified classified ad listing and in my experience it is where bargain hunters go to shop.” They are completely different than eBay which, as I said in a comment yesterday, I admire what Bring a Trailer is doing with their auction process. She does occasionally drive our manual six-speed 1996 Porsche 911, which we have owned from new. Her last manual transmission was a Volvo Turbo that she drove for eleven years, but that was a long time ago. ![]() Although my wife has a lot of experience driving a manual transmission over the last several years she has really wanted to drive automatics, so her cars have all been automatics. We loved the color combination and the automatic transmission. We saw one on the Bring a Trailer auction this past January that we thought would satisfy our desires. Volvo 1800Ī few months back my wife and I decided we wanted a Volvo 1800, actually we decided that a long time ago. The reader comments on this post are interesting too. As I mentioned in the post yesterday about the BMW Isetta eBay auction the eBay “auction” process is really not an auction at all when the seller can cancel all bids and remove the car.
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