Money Laundering via 914 Parts, $600 for a rear anti-sway bar on e-Bay?! |
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Money Laundering via 914 Parts, $600 for a rear anti-sway bar on e-Bay?! |
E-Man |
Mar 5 2008, 01:01 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 158 Joined: 4-March 03 From: S. Windsor, CT Member No.: 390 |
I saw one sell for $600 a couple of weeks ago and thought WTF, I have one in the garage that I'm not going to use. With my broken arm and the help of my daughter, I extracted the bar and other parts from the shed. We cleaned them up and posted the sway bar on E-Bay for $500. Right. How many bids did I get at that price? 0
It's only worth ~200. Well, anything is worth only what someone will pay for it (duh). In a prior job I was required to do anti-money laundering research on investers. Because of this I learned how criminals (terrorists, and others) could transfer funds without being detected (or so they think). Do a Google search on 'hawala' and you will get an education. Anyway, 16mm original rear sway bar and all the good bits are available on ebay now. I should have posted it here first but got suckered in by greed. |
slackin' at work |
Mar 5 2008, 01:13 PM
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i should be working Group: Members Posts: 265 Joined: 12-October 07 From: charlottesville, va Member No.: 8,215 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
a few years ago, over on the samba split window bug forums, someone was
placing want ads for parts. saying how hard they were to find and how rare they must be. he would talk them up for a few weeks until there was a "buzz" about them and then he would post his parts on ebay and watch the bidding war begin. brilliant if you ask me. someone finally researched the guy and found out it was the same dude selling parts that weren't all-that rare. it's all about perception. and who know... maybe they guy changed his mind about selling the swaybar and bid on it himself under another username to the point noone would want it. |
E-Man |
Mar 5 2008, 01:42 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 158 Joined: 4-March 03 From: S. Windsor, CT Member No.: 390 |
I suppose it does happen now and then. Seems silly to go through all that effort.
Brilliant? Save that for Guinness! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) |
purple |
Mar 6 2008, 01:35 PM
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Pigeon feeders attract me Group: Members Posts: 938 Joined: 24-July 07 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 7,942 Region Association: None |
Shoot, my car came with factory swaybars and the rear one just makes my tail-end slide out way too easy. mine's disconnected.
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