I'm going to bare my soul in an effort to prevent someone else from $#@#$%^ themselves like I did recently.

A while ago an e-Bay seller had a set of rocker panel clips for a `68 Barracuda. The moldings these clips hold on are expensive and hard to find un-mangled. I would really have loved to get a new set for my moldings, but unfortunately he had a reserve of something like $140 or some such non-sense. As a matter of fact we joked about it here like we are with these ad's. Had a good laugh. So good I couldn't resist sending him an e-mail and ask him if he was crazy. Yeah, we had a good laugh....

Fast forward to 2 weeks ago when a complete set pops up on e-Bay, no reserve, with a sane starting bid of $10. I watch the auction all week and those damn clips never increased until an hour before the auction ended, all the way up to $29. I logged on and waited.... and waited..... and sniped in the last second with an outragous bid of $70. Know what happened? My screen name was blocked and I wasn't allowed to bid. It was the same guy who tried to sell those clips a few months ago for $140. Bastard blocked me and the auction ended. At $29.....

The moral is yeah, some of these guys try and prey on the weak, but don't F`with them. That $1,100 air cleaner might be that part you need and it could be re-listed for sale in March for $75.

And I'd still love to have a new set of clips for when I finally finish restoring those moldings... :spiderma:
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