Ebay Shenanigans

jackhackettuk · 2007-01-15T00:49:22+00:00

Well... the peril of not hitting the 'Buy It Now' button, eh?I had the Golf back on ebay this week, with a BIN option.Unlike the last time I had it on there, this time I'd decided to leavethe 17" alloys on it.This afternoon some chaps came along and offered me cash on the spotfor it within =A350 of the BIN option... so I took it.I've just replied to the third message received via there since Iremoved the auction, asking if it's still for sale and that theyhappily meet the BIN if it was - one chap said he'd been waiting for itto go past =A31500 (where it still wouldn't have reached its reserve!)before he was going to hit it.Maybe next time they'll have learned to hit the button straightaway(like I did when I saw it on there when I bought it), eh.The Rover on the other hand, 'sold' on there on Friday - havingmessaged the winning bidder via ebay and text, I heard nothing untilthis evening when he rang and came up with various excuses as to why hecouldn't afford it after all!Back on to ebay with that, then...Said phone call was received as I was on my way back from picking upanother bargain: T reg (last of the phase one models) 406 2.0LX HDIwith the more powerful 110bhp engine, and a mere 170k under its belt.Reasonable amount of MOT and tax as well.=A3650, and bar you can smell it has a small diesel leak when you firstget in it and the air con needs regassing, there's nothing obviouslywrong with it... in fact I'd say it actually drives a fair bit nicerthan the Golf, which wasn't that bad in the first place.Already been begged to have a deal on it on a J plate LWB Shogun 2.5TD,which I had a drive of earlier - I actually quite liked this, but needsmust - I need a mile muncher that won't cost the earth to run for thetime being, and so I politely declined the kind offer.--=20JackH

Jan 15, 2007 21 Replies

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Abo 19 years ago

I'd read that you need to add lubricant to the kero to use it in a diesel engine. My thinking was to run a kero/diesel mix as an experiment and if I'm happy with it, move over to kero.

I'm not going to stick a whole tankful of kero in on the first go, in my only commuter hack ;)

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Burgerman 19 years ago

Coward! Stick a tiny drop of two stroke in as well if you are worried...

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