The new auction thing
Ebay is like a mutating bug.
My attention was drawn recently to a WW1 replica aircraft for sale in the USA.
The vendor had set up an Ebay-auction type website inviting bids for the thing.
Such an arrangement precludes anybody with any sense from bothering to go see it, because all you are doing is making the decision on whether to bid/ how much, and spending thousands of pounds doing it. I told him I wouldn't be bidding.
All I wanted to do was the old fashioned thing of 'check it over, make an acceptable offer, press the flesh, job done.'
Needless to say, other interested parties weren't interested in playing that game either - it didn't sell.
He has contacted me since pleading with me to negotiate.
I'll let the dust settle and contact him in a few months. If its gone, it's gone. If it hasn't sold then we can maybe do the thing the way I wanted to do it in the first place.
Whilst Ebay has its place, it aint the place to sell aircraft.
Personally, I find it riddled with counterfeit and mis-described rubbish.
I see stuff on there with my company logo all over it. In many cases, its stuff we have never sold, or anything like. Ebay don't give a stuff about our protestations.
Hairyplane