In case you missed it…
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That selling price under the image of the Mercedes looks mighty fishy… $1,234,567.00. It looks like the author left it as a place holder and forgot to edit it later.
Anyone know if it’s correct?
That price elicited much comment at the time of the sale but yes, it is correct. (Note- I follow BAT pretty much daily)
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Surprised the bidder didn’t put in the 89 cents.
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BaT has its critics, but to me it’s the best way to sell a collector car. It gets it in front of a wide audience of legitimate buyers. If you’re a seller, don’t be thin-skinned and be open and honest about your car (or motorcycle or boat or…).
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What’s fishy about $1.2 million for a Gullwing?!
At the time of the sale, there were a few people saying it had sold for well below market price, and that it “should” have sold for upward of $1.8M.
The car belonged to the founder of BaT, and had been the subject of pretty extensive specialist restoration work. Randy said he was satisfied with the $1.2M sale, and that there were no recent data points to support $1.8M “in this market”.
I thought it was interesting that Randy said something in the ad that was effectively…”This won’t end up being the best financial decision of my life, because I bought the car at the market peak a few years ago”.
There seems to be a thread on J-L every week where someone is arguing whether prices are going up or down, but when the founder of BaT makes a comment like that ON HIS OWN CAR, I think it’s noteworthy.
Its price is 1234567. Someone here says its legit. Go figure,
Bat allows bids of any amount. Every day someone bids the year of a listed car as their bid amount. People there seem to enjoy bidding some sort of funky number.
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…count the number of times an Aston Martin has a bid ending in 007…
Or xx9xx for a Porsche. Happens all the time.
Ah… Fun with maths.
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Now your making me wish I had been a little more creative with MIK’s bid 
Cheers,
LLynn
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123456 would have been fun and more appropriate.