Geez,    $1500 for a dinged up Carat from KS?  He'd have to drive it down
to Austin to my house to get that kind of money!!

Maybe next time get a round trip ticket to cover your hiney!!

I'm considering a similar trip to Seattle for a QSW, and I'll definitely do
round trip.

dm&fs

!At 12:09 PM 8/9/2003 -0500, Brett Baer wrote:
>This email really has no purpose other than to vent some frustration and to
>warn other Vanagon enthusiasts from dealing with one of the biggest assholes
>I have EVER dealt with.  Here it goes.
>
>I am a 20 year old college student I need a Carat to use as parts, so I
>found one for sale on autotrader.com.  Pretty rough physical condition,
>front-end damage from collision with a deer, the interior is really dirty;
>but, mechanically good condition.  I contact the owner and he sends me more
>pictures of the van.  I decide to pay the $1500 asking price and buy a
>one-way bus ticket from Austin, TX (where I live) to Lawrence, KS (45
>minutes from the owner's house), an overnight, 18 hour, $65 ticket.  The
>owner had agreed to pick me up at the bus stop in Lawrence and then I would
>drive the van back to Texas.  All the details were worked out, this was not
>a capricious decision.  To make a long story short, when I arrived in
>Lawrence the guy had a bunch of excuses why he couldn't pick me up.  After a
>couple of hours at the bus stop on my cell phone working his lame excuses
>out, so that he had no more to offer, he says over the phone, "Forget it
>Brett...I'm not selling you the van", hangs up the phone and doesn't answer
>my calls.  I resist the urge to get a taxi to the guys house because the
>only thing I could do was fight him; I couldn't force him to sell me the
>van.  I figured he would probably just call the cops if I showed up
>demanding the title and keys.  So, I go into the gas station, I mean bus
>stop, that I had been sitting outside of all morning after my over-night
>trip and buy a return ticket to austin ($105) and spend another day/night on
>the bus back to austin.  I don't want this to happen to anyone else, or
>myself again.
>
>So no matter what you do, don't try to buy this guy's car:
>
>John "A-hole" Schubert of Midwest Flying Service
>804 Pennsylvania Ave.
>Leavenworth, KS 66048
>
>
>He is selling a 1990 Vanagon Carat blue w/ grey moulding/interior,
>driver-side front-end damage from collision with deer,  around 120k miles.
>
>Avoid this guy at all costs.  I am still confused about what actually
>happened to me these past couple of days, I guess I am in shock.  I can't
>believe anyone would do this.  All I do know is that I am $200 poorer and 3
>miserable days older and depressed because I still need a parts van to
>finish the resto of my Syncro Westy.
>
>If anyone has any creative ideas of how I can seek some retribution from
>this guy please let me know, maybe BenT can lend me the shotgun he's been
>talking about (just kidding).
>
>My stomach hurts just thinking about it,
>Brett Baer
>Austin, TX
>'87 Syncro Westy
>
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