Loot at item # 260118690781
Bernard
In reply to a message from Bernard Cristalli sent Thu 17 May 2007:
Bernard, this doesn’t have any of the obvious ‘‘scam’’ signs.
The price is in the right ball park, it’s a real eBay buy it
now. There is both a landline and mobile number. There is no
attempt to get you to contact the seller outside of eBay
before being allowed to bid. The landline number checks out
as a car dealer in Cheltenham. The only thing I can see
wrong with the listing is that the phone number is in
Cheltenham and the ad says the car is in London.
The same seller is listing a number of other classic cars.
How good the car is I’ve no way of knowing but this looks
fairly legitimate to me. If you are interested try calling
one of the 01242 phone numbers. In the UK 07 numbers are
mobiles, numbers that start 01 or 02 are landlines and can
be traced. I just entered one of the numbers into Google and
it found hits on it. The first of these was to a site
192.com which is a general directory type website with loads
of free searchable information and I guess a lot more that
you need to pay for.
Cheers
Ken–
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Loot at item # 260118690781
Bernard
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Ken XK150 FHC S824252, see her on xkdata + X300 3.2 Sport
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The “Buy it Now” price looked a bit low for this car described as nearly
perfect.
Bernard
Ken Green a �crit :> In reply to a message from Bernard Cristalli sent Thu 17 May 2007:
Bernard, this doesn’t have any of the obvious ‘‘scam’’ signs.
The price is in the right ball park, it’s a real eBay buy it
now. There is both a landline and mobile number. There is no
attempt to get you to contact the seller outside of eBay
before being allowed to bid. The landline number checks out
as a car dealer in Cheltenham. The only thing I can see
wrong with the listing is that the phone number is in
Cheltenham and the ad says the car is in London.The same seller is listing a number of other classic cars.
How good the car is I’ve no way of knowing but this looks
fairly legitimate to me. If you are interested try calling
one of the 01242 phone numbers. In the UK 07 numbers are
mobiles, numbers that start 01 or 02 are landlines and can
be traced. I just entered one of the numbers into Google and
it found hits on it. The first of these was to a site
192.com which is a general directory type website with loads
of free searchable information and I guess a lot more that
you need to pay for.Cheers
Ken
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Bernard–
Ken XK150 FHC S824252, see her on xkdata + X300 3.2 Sport
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In reply to a message from Bernard Cristalli sent Fri 18 May 2007:
Your view of ‘‘near perfect’’ might not be the same as the car
dealers. From the pictures I wouldn’t think it’s that
original. I might be wrong, 120s aren’t my speciality, but
black seats with red leather piping seems rather bling to me.
But it doesn’t have the normal hallmarks of an eBay scam.
They usually jump off the screen at you.
Cheers
Ken–
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The ‘‘Buy it Now’’ price looked a bit low for this car described as nearly
perfect.
Bernard
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Ken XK150 FHC S824252, see her on xkdata + X300 3.2 Sport
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In reply to a message from Ken Green sent Fri 18 May 2007:
Ken, just fyi, my heritige certificate claims my 140 was black /
black with red piping. I intend to return it to this color scheme.
Dave S.–
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black seats with red leather piping seems rather bling to me.
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1957 XK140MC OTS, 1964 E-type OTS, 1973 Maserati Bora 4.9L
Orange/CA, United States
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In reply to a message from Dave Shaw sent Mon 21 May 2007:
Then as Bernard said ‘‘Autant pour moi!’’
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In reply to a message from Ken Green sent Fri 18 May 2007:
Ken, just fyi, my heritige certificate claims my 140 was black /
black with red piping. I intend to return it to this color scheme.
Dave S.
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Ken XK150 FHC S824252, see her on xkdata + X300 3.2 Sport
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