I saw a over 100 year old crock lid on e-bay for $1,000 and it had over twenty bids.
I have sold some Vanagon parts that are expensive new and hard to obtain used in areas of the country. A lady in Montana bought captains chairs from me-easier to find them on e-bay if there is no local store .
Maybe some items are worth paying extra for just for the convenience of shopping from home.
Auctions get you if you are very competitive-your desire to win clouds your judgement of the value of the item-and the price goes up.  
And then a lot of people are just rich and can afford the higher price!

Someone is forever selling the Westfalia pop-top labels on e-bay starting them out at the BUS Depot price.  
I know how that must feel, Bus Depot.  
 I sold something on e-bay and the high bidder offered it to the Vanagon list for more. The
Enough already. How is this supposed to help the Vanagon community?

I have had my share of disappointments on e-bay. But that's auctions.  

Robert
1982 Westfalia  
1987 Wolfsburg

----- Original Message -----
Wrom: WLSZLKBRNVW
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 11:21 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Interesting Westfalia Dometic condiment on ebay (ANVCW) absolutely NVCwha...

I think that's the whole point.  Some "hot" items sell on eBay for way more
than they're worth.  Look for a GPS and you'll find last years models
selling for more than MSRP.  VW parts? forgetaboudit.  It's kind of a shot
at eBay that a bottle of mustard is going for $55 million.  Who knows, it
might even be performance art.

Unemployed Bum

At 10:23 AM 2/19/02 -0700, John Brush wrote:
> >> $210,000 for a plastic bottle of MUSTARD??!!??
> >>
> >> What am I missing?
> >>
>
> >a sense of humor?     ;<)
>
>
>You know, I think its funny in a way, but OTOH, since I use ebay a lot, I
>may be a bit put off by the way people are abusing it with this ridiculous
>product. According to the contract one agrees to in order to bid, the
>corn-head that bid 500,1000,000.00 or whatever it is, is legally liable
>for paying that amount.

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