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Have you seen this... MX250

25 Oct 2015, 11:49am
Don't get me wrong, I'm not looking down at anybody's kit. Having just built a 300z I know how much work goes into a kit and the time spent working out problems, what I'm saying the price is way to high for what it is. For that type of money you could buy a top end Hawk Cobra or other high end kit cars, or even an E Type FHC, fully restored TR6 etc etc. The price is my issue, but I suppose 'nothing ventured nothing gained'.
25 Oct 2015, 12:52pm
Its back on ebay at auction now. Hes also changed the £20k asking price to £30k!
25 Oct 2015, 11:38pm
Just been bid over £10k , I would be happy with that but reserve still not met! Still you have got the option to BuyItNow @ £29,995.00
26 Oct 2015, 8:49am
My feeling is that for £30k you could have one built for you to a similar/better/own spec on a much lower mileage and better engined donor.
26 Oct 2015, 9:55am
Looking at the bids made he someone appears to be bidding against themselves and driving up the price


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8***a ( 219Feedback score is 100 to 499) £9,877.00
25-Oct-15 19:45:14 GMT


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8***a ( 219Feedback score is 100 to 499) £9,677.00
25-Oct-15 19:45:11 GMT


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8***a ( 219Feedback score is 100 to 499) £9,477.00
25-Oct-15 19:45:05 GMT


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8***a ( 219Feedback score is 100 to 499) £9,277.00
25-Oct-15 19:45:01 GMT


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8***a ( 219Feedback score is 100 to 499) £9,077.00
25-Oct-15 19:44:56 GMT


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8***a ( 219Feedback score is 100 to 499) £8,877.00
25-Oct-15 19:44:49 GMT


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8***a ( 219Feedback score is 100 to 499) £8,677.00
25-Oct-15 19:44:45 GMT


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8***a ( 219Feedback score is 100 to 499) £8,477.00
25-Oct-15 19:44:41 GMT


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8***a ( 219Feedback score is 100 to 499) £8,277.00
25-Oct-15 19:44:39 GMT


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8***a ( 219Feedback score is 100 to 499) £8,077.00
25-Oct-15 19:44:36 GMT


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8***a ( 219Feedback score is 100 to 499) £7,877.00
25-Oct-15 13:52:47 GMT
26 Oct 2015, 10:24am
He was increasing his bid by £200 a time to find out what a***s had bid.
26 Oct 2015, 3:12pm
I think I let mine go too cheap! Mind you, hes probibly going to win his own car.
26 Oct 2015, 5:08pm
WorldClassAccident wrote:
...Anyone got £53 I can borrow?


That's probably for the Aluminium billeted indicator and wiper stalks.
26 Oct 2015, 9:28pm
Its cars like this that make the average "kit car" look too expensive , unrefined and un viable . At just over £5k its an attractive alternative to most "kits". You could buy six of these for the price of the MX5 kit above !!
26 Oct 2015, 10:04pm
How could we comment on that Chris? Literally not enough superlatives for that one! I loved that build, you really did smash ig out of the park. Out of curiosity are there moulds of this, or just a one off?
28 Oct 2015, 8:15pm
Lucky@LeMans wrote:
Just been bid over £10k , I would be happy with that but reserve still not met! Still you have got the option to BuyItNow @ £29,995.00


£12600, now that must be a record ! Bidding is still going so where will it get to ?
28 Oct 2015, 8:32pm
If you look at the bid history it is very difficult not to smell a very large rat.
29 Oct 2015, 9:36am
There is deffinatly a rat but hey. What a great time for somone to advertise their mx250 if they were selling.....
29 Oct 2015, 11:07am
Reminds me of an old property scam.

Your house is worth what other houses near by have recently sold for. Buy a few houses in and area cheaply, wait 6-12 months. Buy 1 more house (of yourself) at much over market value and suddenly the other properties are worth the new price. Sell / Torch them as you see fit and get the new high value insurance / sale price
30 Oct 2015, 10:04pm
Onwards and upwards , over £13k and still going .

Reserve not met !
3 Nov 2015, 7:04pm
Finished at £16,000 , well short of the BuyItNow price . The reserve was met !

I don't know if it was a genuine bidder though as he bid against himself to get to the reserve !
3 Nov 2015, 7:58pm
WorldClassAccident wrote:
Reminds me of an old property scam.

Your house is worth what other houses near by have recently sold for. Buy a few houses in and area cheaply, wait 6-12 months. Buy 1 more house (of yourself) at much over market value and suddenly the other properties are worth the new price. Sell / Torch them as you see fit and get the new high value insurance / sale price


I need to try that. Just double check my bank balance first.
4 Nov 2015, 9:21am
I need to try that. Just double check my bank balance first.

You borrow the seed money but yes, it is not a pocket money fraud.
4 Nov 2015, 10:32am
That's normal on ebay - if any bidder places a bid above the reserve it'l jump straight to the reserve price.

I've had that happen a couple of times, most recently with a bit of electronic gadgetry that was on a 99p start bid, I bid £100 as a virgin bid and it jumped straight to the £80 reserve.
4 Nov 2015, 12:56pm
Yes thats true . I've done it before to find the reserve price when the seller won't tell me , then I retract the bid if its too much.

This bidder put in lots of small bids until the reserve was met, you can check this if you press on the bids counter , it will show all bids and when and how much.
4 Nov 2015, 1:01pm
Hmm so I could use my wifes account to bid just to find out the reserve...


... and if it is low enough it will make my bid = reserve rather than the amount I actually bid...

... and if it is too high I reject it ad that only ruins my wife's ebay profile
4 Nov 2015, 2:21pm
... or set up another eBay account using another email address. Make 5 purchases of cheap odds'n'sods to get your 5 +ve feedbacks then do the above.

Keep herself sweet.
4 Nov 2015, 2:30pm
Keep herself sweet.

She doesn't even know she has an eBay account :-)