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Subject:Re: Ebay trade gone wrong...
From:Eric Zeno
Date:Mon, 9 Aug 2004 07:20:00 -0400

Stuff like this is why buying a car on E-bay is just foolish!  To many
things
that you can not inspect a head of time.   Sorry but I've warned the
list about this.
                                                 ERic

Donald Baxter wrote:

>My Vanagon seller wrote me back:
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>As for friday, everything sounds good, I dont know if I will be able
>to be there for the final transaction.  My father will probably be the
>one to be there, his name is Fred.  If you're driving this back to
>Iowa take it a little bit slow.  Let her rest every couple of hours,
>that's how Ive driven it and you should be good.  You might want to
>get an oil change, the last time I changed it was about 2000 miles
>ago.  How would an online account work for cutting me a check?  I
>would trust it I just dont know how that works.  As soon as payment is
>cleared I will send the title to you unless you would rather pick it
>here with the van.
>Thank you
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>Does this sound as bad as I think it does?  I don't have to let my
>Vanagon "rest" every two hours.  I've backed out of the trade.  Grrr.
>
>DB
>'85 GL
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>Donald Baxter
>316 Ridgeview Avenue
>University Heights, Iowa 52246
>http://www.mindspring.com/~onanov
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