Won ebay auction at 60K for E90 M3, BMW of Lincoln refusing to honor

bmw-m6 · 03-25-2008, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by BlackJetE90

quotes from Journal Star article:

"Ryan Mathis, sales manager for Husker Auto Group, acknowledged Monday the dealership had agreed to sell the car to Tanisaka.

We didn’t have the reserve set properly,” Mathis explained. “We had a ‘buy it now’ at $67,800. It was an error by our eBay manager, $67,800 was supposed to be the reserve.”

His dealership’s service record is impeccable, Mathis said, and he doesn’t feel as though publicity from the Web commenters muscled him into anything."

Yeah right buddy. They were getting so much bad press it was crazy. Typical asshole dealer attitude.

Still showing the arrogant attitude that got them into trouble in the first place.

sorry, no dice here.

after reading the edmunds piece, the manager gets the glory, and pins it on the internet guy. dealerships have a chain of command, and there should be no way general/top/main manager didn't know (unless they weren't doing their job), and after 3 or more auction term edits, they still claim they didn't know about the missing reserve or something. excuses, excuses...

dgb2 · 03-25-2008, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by BlackJetE90

quotes from Journal Star article:

"Ryan Mathis, sales manager for Husker Auto Group, acknowledged Monday the dealership had agreed to sell the car to Tanisaka.

We didn’t have the reserve set properly,” Mathis explained. “We had a ‘buy it now’ at $67,800. It was an error by our eBay manager, $67,800 was supposed to be the reserve.”

His dealership’s service record is impeccable, Mathis said, and he doesn’t feel as though publicity from the Web commenters muscled him into anything."

Yeah right buddy. They were getting so much bad press it was crazy. Typical asshole dealer attitude.

Still showing the arrogant attitude that got them into trouble in the first place.

His quotes just pissed me off more. I was starting to forgive the dealership in light of selling Dooma the car, but after reading that they're even further in the red. Stop lying you damn sleazebags!!!

grumpybear · 03-25-2008, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by rainsux

This whole episode made the hometown newspaper:

http://journalstar.com/articles/2008...e060113124.txt

(moosepoop got a special mention.)

-doug

that's weird..it's almost like someone sent the newspaper an anoyomous tip with links to the Ebay auction and this thread....

bmw-m6 · 03-25-2008, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by rainsux

On one of his MySpace pages, he claims a Batchelor degree, but
chose not to list his graduation year. The other page shows
"some college."

I guess that it's possible that both are true, but that's a bet
that I would decline.

hmm..under education there's a TN highschool listed, could be a connection with moose-whatever

acidtrunks · 03-25-2008, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by grumpybear

that's weird..it's almost like someone sent the newspaper an anoyomous tip with links to the Ebay auction and this thread....

on the newspaper piece,how did mooseman,get turned to moosepoop? am i the only one who noticed that?

toddy33 · 03-25-2008, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by acidtrunks

on the newspaper piece,how did mooseman,get turned to moosepoop? am i the only one who noticed that?

Ummm...actually, we had both!

grumpybear · 03-25-2008, 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by acidtrunks

on the newspaper piece,how did mooseman,get turned to moosepoop? am i the only one who noticed that?

moosepoop is his stage name....

acidtrunks · 03-25-2008, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by runutzzzzz

jharden90 ,
Where is the $60,000 M3 Coupe FULLY LOADED you promised me??? What happened to your post?!?!?!?

i beleive he was finally banned

,not that you would have got it anyways...sorry to give you that kind of shock,but youll get through

acidtrunks · 03-25-2008, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by toddy33

Ummm...actually, we had both!

wow i must have missed it ive been following since saturday...there really were 2 people who had that kinda name huh?

runutzzzzz · 03-25-2008, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by acidtrunks

i beleive he was finally banned

,not that you would have got it anyways...sorry to give you that kind of shock,but youll get through

LOL... He did give me a dealer name... I should call them to collect!

toddy33 · 03-25-2008, 07:11 PM

I just did a member search...they both joined the same day!

I wonder how much membership has jumped in the last three days, anyway?

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Originally Posted by acidtrunks

wow i must have missed it ive been following since saturday...there really were 2 people who had that kinda name huh?

acidtrunks · 03-25-2008, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by toddy33

I just did a member search...they both joined the same day!

I wonder how much membership has jumped in the last three days, anyway?

well i joined because of this,but moosepoop only had 1 post,where as mooseman had 19 and was the first and major protagonist,i guess the paper chose that name in an effort to show immaturity?(on whose part?they printed it)

acidtrunks · 03-25-2008, 07:20 PM

one other thing i wondered about,the e-mail Fil sent dooma on easter...here in Oklahoma its illegal to sell a car on Sunday,im just curious if anyone knows if they have the same kind of law there?

toddy33 · 03-25-2008, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by acidtrunks

one other thing i wondered about,the e-mail Fil sent dooma on easter...here in Oklahoma its illegal to sell a car on Sunday,im just curious if anyone knows if they have the same kind of law there?

Oooh...interesting question!

According to Wikipedia under the entry for Blue Law (not well-cited, mind you...) Nebraska's not on the list. Just Texas, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania.

I've noticed that there's not a single one open here in North Central Florida...Gentlemen's agreement, I guess.

TahBOSS · 03-25-2008, 07:30 PM

I'm waiting on an update....

acidtrunks · 03-25-2008, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by toddy33

Oooh...interesting question!

According to Wikipedia under the entry for Blue Law (not well-cited, mind you...) Nebraska's not on the list. Just Texas, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania.

I've noticed that there's not a single one open here in North Central Florida...Gentlemen's agreement, I guess.

wow i didnt even know that what it was called..but thx for the tip and referal to the article i learned something today

0.02eurocents · 03-25-2008, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Rossland

The joke de jour
“No, we’re just trying to do the right thing,” Mathis said. “We don’t legally have to do this. I’m getting a lot of publicity on it, maybe I’ll sell some more cars.

This is ridiculous. It makes me sick how the greasebags now even try to capitalize on their whole scam.

asif163 · 03-25-2008, 07:42 PM

Hmm Dooma hasn't updated in awhile- I bet he's not allowed too

-RAC · 03-25-2008, 07:50 PM

I bet they are trying to do some type conditions that will not let him flip the car without the stealership getting their cut. Ferrari started to do this on their new cars awhile back. The general thought was that this type of condition was not enforceable, especially when you paid cash. But should you do flip your new Ferrari without using the dealership chances are you never get another new one at MSRP.

ideliver · 03-25-2008, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by toddy33

I'm goin' nuts here...I never thought in a million years I'd be this curious to find out what the heck the ending to a story is! Sheesh.

+1 it is almost shamefully how much time I have spent reading this thread over the last 4 or 5 days

gundamfans · 03-25-2008, 08:07 PM

well I've been checking periodically. I just BMW of Lincoln makes a good deal and all is over. I'm not so sure on both exterior and interior colour of this M3, but at USD$60K for M3 E90, this is a huge super bargain.

azn_dp_boy · 03-25-2008, 08:17 PM

uhhhhh, update?

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-RAC Enlisted Member 2 Rep 35 Posts Drives: 996 C4 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: somewhere iTrader: (0)	I bet they are trying to do some type conditions that will not let him flip the car without the stealership getting their cut. Ferrari started to do this on their new cars awhile back. The general thought was that this type of condition was not enforceable, especially when you paid cash. But should you do flip your new Ferrari without using the dealership chances are you never get another new one at MSRP.
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