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

[mister_g60]

dooma, kudos! here's hoping the "terms" aren't something ridiculous. we were pulling for your over on vwvortex.

[Angelus897]

Congrats!!! Let us know how tomorrow goes. I want to see what these "special" conditions are.

[acidtrunks]

Originally Posted by dooma350

Sorry its taken so long to post a update. The site is very slow (understandably). This morning, BMW of Lincoln has agreed to sell me the car at a price of 60K, with certain conditions. I'll be going over the conditions with the dealership tommorow, and I hope to have everything finalized by tommorow afternoon.

But one thing that I would like to make everyone aware of is, BMW of Lincoln is proactively working to correct the situation that they screwed up. And yes, they screwed up big time, no doubt about that.They are trying to do right, so please don't harass the dealership right now. No phone calls, threats, emails or fake sales calls.

That said, I would just like to take a step back for a moment.
The past few days have been insane. Just thinking about what has transpired, leaves you speechless really. How did this thing go from a M3post.com rant to what it became today? In 3 days, the site amassed
650+ comments and 200,000 page views, with people posting from all around the world, lending their support and help. Thats people I dont even know! Amazing stuff, and probably the coolest thing I have ever
been part of, leveraging the internet in a way that I have never seen before. People I have never met, making calls on my behalf, contacting automotive sites, supplying information, just doing anything and everything possible to help out.

Lets do it again sometime, I hope to be there for someone when they are in need.

Thanks guys, there are good people in this world after all.
I'll post again tommorow.

Regards

Ken



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JUST A REHASH...it apperars that they are caving in finally but there are still some "conditions" but how about mr.Ken,taking the time to thank us all and even being more civil with the dealership than we would have been. OH DOOMA...IF THEY WANT TO THROW CONDITIONS AT YOU PERHAPS YOU SHOULD HAVE SOME OF YOUR OWN
1. I(meaning you) GET TO SHAVE FIL'S HEAD(everyone at the dealership wants to see that hair do gone i guarantee it.
2. Fil stops using hair gel for the rest of his life( i mean come on how much did it take to get his spikes that long? i spike my hair and i just cant conceive being able to spike it straight up when its 5-6 inches long)

but other than that congrats and lets get him a list of his own "conditions"going

[OC ///M]

dooma:

Congratulations! This is fantastic news. The support shown by all is truly remarkable and it's wonderful to see that it has worked out.

[mgoliveruk]

Long time Audi owner...active on Audi forums, first post on here.. well done. Keep us posted as to what the "conditions" are. Regards from Bath, UK

[mkoesel]

CONGRATS DOOMA!

I knew this would go your way. Let us know details. If they try anything shady with those conditions - then this will only blow up in their face again.

WTG!

[tintivilus]

Originally Posted by acidtrunks

2. Fil stops using hair gel for the rest of his life( i mean come on how much did it take to get his spikes that long? i spike my hair and i just cant conceive being able to spike it straight up when its 5-6 inches long)

Judging from the number of copies of his picture in the Fark thread, Fil's taking over from the white-e36 guy as the new douchebag mascot

[UsedCarSalesmanwCombOver]

Congrats! I am sure they will ship it with no wheels and they will probably hide a piece of fish in the back seat, those prankster!

Anyways, enjoy the ride and I don't get any speeding tickets in PV.

[billycorgan]

i've read every single page of this thread! congratulations to you for getting the car at $60K, but as someone else has said, make sure they don't try to screw you over with "required amenities".

[325mag]

dooma, Make sure that you get the conditions on paper too. Dont want something to go wrong after the fact. Go get that car.

[thetastelingers]

I hope the "conditions" don't involve money.
Maybe agreeing to post how they did the customer right.

[yacoub]

Originally Posted by JudgeHolden

So the question might be did the OP have reason to know it was a mistake. One one hand, arguably, as the BIN was ridiculously low.

Except that it's NOT and that's the whole point. This isn't like "oops the dealer made a typo and wrote $6,000 instead of $60,000." This is a bid, accepted by the dealer, of $60,000 which is well within the price range of what a new M3 can MSRP for, depending on options selected.
Given the title of the auction was something along the lines of "THE CHEAPEST M3 ON EBAY OMG L@@K" (slight exaggeration there), that only gives further confidence to the bidder that the Buy It Now price is indeed accurate, AND further confidence that the dealer is just fine with the topic poster's bid of $60,000 which stood for hours/days during which time the dealership checked (and even edited) the posting several times. He won the auction for a price that is very reasonable, not absurdly off like a true 'mistake' would be.

Anyway, glad to hear this might be resolved in a satisfactory manner. Here's hoping!

[BzsBimmer]

Congrats on the win.
I can't believe I read all the posts about this.
So after you get the car, are you going to sell it and buy the one you really wanted!
Small guy -1 : Big Corporation -0
Power of the internet

[maharai]

Originally Posted by mooseman

No one has yet to explain to me the actual loss in this situation. No earnest money was exchanged. They didn't FedEx the guy the signed paperwork, then back out.

So, how did he get screwed? I honestly really am trying to understand what his actual loss is. Someone, please, put it into language I can understand, in small one syllable words, I am from Tennessee.

If it was me, I would of lost a lot of vested time/effort and faith in eBAY (isnt much). I think you are assuming a few things that are probably wrong. You speak of a guy thats scared to lose his job because he made a mistake. I don't think a dealership allows a sales employee to set the price at 60K without any management approval, so there should be plenty of heads that will be rolling if it ever happens. How can you feel sorry for them, despite their obvious ploy to make even more money off eBAY? That dealership is making doom350 pay the price for their mistake. You apparently thinks its ok because we are spoiled in our thinking. Well having eBAY is spoiled in itself isnt it? so with all these options of legal action, media, blogs...etc. Doom350 as a consumer just wants to get some rights. Sure he didnt lose a dime, but the whole point of this whole dispute is for him to get the damn car for 60K!!, not about what he's lost! But if you wanna bring it up, he lost a chance to buy a 60K BMW, which is what he wanted in the first place.

I dont think doom350 gives a damn about the dealership peoples jobs, because dont you think its their job to worry about their job? Doom350 just wants his car at 60k.

[PMKN_PI]

Here is the scumbag sodomite rat amateur car salesman's 2 most active myspace accounts...add him as a friend, wont you please?

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndid=276441582
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndid=152937794

[Doesn't Drive]

Originally Posted by dooma350

Sorry its taken so long to post a update. The site is very slow (understandably). This morning, BMW of Lincoln has agreed to sell me the car at a price of 60K, with certain conditions. I'll be going over the conditions with the dealership tommorow, and I hope to have everything finalized by tommorow afternoon.

But one thing that I would like to make everyone aware of is, BMW of Lincoln is proactively working to correct the situation that they screwed up. And yes, they screwed up big time, no doubt about that.They are trying to do right, so please don't harass the dealership right now. No phone calls, threats, emails or fake sales calls.

That said, I would just like to take a step back for a moment.
The past few days have been insane. Just thinking about what has transpired, leaves you speechless really. How did this thing go from a M3post.com rant to what it became today? In 3 days, the site amassed
650+ comments and 200,000 page views, with people posting from all around the world, lending their support and help. Thats people I dont even know! Amazing stuff, and probably the coolest thing I have ever
been part of, leveraging the internet in a way that I have never seen before. People I have never met, making calls on my behalf, contacting automotive sites, supplying information, just doing anything and everything possible to help out.

Lets do it again sometime, I hope to be there for someone when they are in need.

Thanks guys, there are good people in this world after all.
I'll post again tommorow.

Regards

Ken



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Booyah! I love Happy Endings!

I'm kind of curious as to those Certain Conditions though... I'll have to check back tomorrow and read the end of the tale.

[Greeney]

Congrats Dooma!

[JudgeHolden]

Originally Posted by yacoub

Except that it's NOT and that's the whole point. This isn't like "oops the dealer made a typo and wrote $6,000 instead of $60,000." This is a bid of $60,000 which is well within the price range of what a new M3 can MSRP for, depending on options selected.
Given the title of the auction was something along the lines of "THE CHEAPEST M3 ON EBAY OMG L@@K" (slight exaggeration there), that only gives further confidence to the bidder that the Buy It Now price is indeed accurate, AND further confidence that the dealer is just fine with the topic poster's bid of $60,000 which stood for hours/days during which time the dealership checked (and even edited) the posting several times. He won the auction for a price that is very reasonable, not absurdly off like a true 'mistake' would be.

Anyway, glad to hear this might be resolved in a satisfactory manner. Here's hoping!

I covered most of that on my other hand, did I not?

The dealer's argument, the one hand, would be that they'd never, ever put a brand new, in-demand M3 on ebay for invoice price, and that it would be unreasonable to expect them to. They have a bit of a point. Can anyone think of a valid reason why they'd do that? Not really. It seems pretty clear that the BIN was intended to be a reserve price.

However, the dealer had experience with ebay, and all the bragging of lowest-price muddies their point, and I think that makes it questionable. Had it not been for the "cheapest M3 on ebay," I think this could have gone to the dealer.


Except the dealer has more to lose than simply the $3k + anything over invoice. And it seems they learned that. Good for them, good for dooma.


Big razz to anyone else that called them.

[NSXTASY]

Congrats. and good luck...
We're watching over at NSXPrime

[LilRedGXP]

[QUOTE=UsedCarSalesmanwCombOver;2356101]

Originally Posted by dooma350

Sorry its taken so long to post a update. The site is very slow (understandably). This morning, BMW of Lincoln has agreed to sell me the car at a price of 60K, with certain conditions. I'll be going over the conditions with the dealership tommorow, and I hope to have everything finalized by tommorow afternoon.

But one thing that I would like to make everyone aware of is, BMW of Lincoln is proactively working to correct the situation that they screwed up. And yes, they screwed up big time, no doubt about that.They are trying to do right, so please don't harass the dealership right now. No phone calls, threats, emails or fake sales calls.


Thanks guys, there are good people in this world after all.
I'll post again tommorow.

Regards

Ken

Is it just me or is it odd that BMW NA/Parent did not chime in? No official statement or does anyone know whether they applied pressure on the dealer to make good? I would hate to find out afterwards that the factory gave the dealer the money (difference in $) to make the problem disappear.

In any event, gratz on getting the "almost" car of your dreams - you can always repaint it.

We all want to see that smiling mug upon delivery when you have the keys in hand. Keep us posted.

LilRedGXP

P.S. I wonder what the conditions are... you promise not to tell anyone the deal that you got.

[japac1]

Congrats!!!! What a story.....

[UltimateBMW]

Congrats on being able to finally buy your car at the finalized price.

Now to get back to the normal workings of this forum, and in line with most M3 enthusiasts... I hope to see some pics of the most controverted M3 to date SOON!