RE: Ebay

["Congleton, John" <John.Congleton@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've heard a success story and a horror story on buying bikes from ebay.

Horror story - my friend picked out a Harley Sportser 1200, etc... that's
actually not the horror part... we're on the east coast - bike was in
Seattle.  They were using some escrow service.  He put the money in the
escrow service was suppose to have 3 days to check the bike over before
releasing the money.  Bike didn't show up... got an email saying the money
had been released.  He was able to get some back but lost much of it.  I
don't understand the banking side, but it was apparantly a big scam..

Success story - my brother picked out an '03 Honda VTX 1300 Retro.  Didn't
pay till he saw it.  Was about 4 hour drive.  Looked it over payed the guy
and rode it home.  No problems.

So I guess the lesson learned is - make sure the bike exists before buying
it.


-----Original Message-----
From: royscorrigan [mailto:rscorrigan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 2:41 PM
To: virago@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Ebay


I'm a volunteer on the eBay 'rules and safety' community board.  Preapproved
bidder auctions usually end up being a scam of some sort, involving hijacked
accounts.  You see it a lot on laptop and plasma TV auctions.  My advice for
your friend is to stay away from Harley auctions at the moment...but that's
just my opinion.
Steven

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-virago@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-virago@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Michael W Hall
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 10:29 AM
To: virago@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Fw: Ebay


Good Morning everyone (or whatever time it happens to be wherever you
are). I sent the below message about a week ago no realizing that somehow
I was knocked off of the list so I don't know if anyone responded to it.
So I'm sending it again. Thanks, Mike
--------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michael W Hall <wmh9680@xxxxxxxx>
To: virago@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:51:10 -0500
Subject: Ebay

Finally got my horn (compressor driven) working. I mounted the compressor
and the relay on a piece of acrylic cutting board in my tool pouch on the
front. I ran power to the relay from the batt and ran a wire from the
bolt where the batt grounds to the frame to the relay. My problem was I
didn't realize that I had to run a diff positive to the relay thru the
horn button to energize the relay. I didn't know exactly how a relay
worked til now. I ran a wire from the fuse panel (using the power out
side of a 15 amp fuse) by the gauges to the side terminal on the relay to
power the relay so it would complete the power circuit to the compressor.
Very easy once you understand how the relay works. I just wish there was
a 30 amp fuse in the fuses to use instead of running a wire from the batt
ground.
        Got a ? for everyone. My Chief at the station has the itch to buy
a Harley (sorry about that). We've looked on Ebay and so many of them are
way below retail (now's your chance to jump in here) that it is
ridiculous. But where you look them up you must be pre-approved, what's
with that? I emailed the seller and asked him and he never responded
back.  I've bought over 25 items on Ebay and never ran into this (maybe
Virago owners are just more reliable like their bikes). Also the same
exact bike might be listed two or three times but where you try the other
two listings they come back as unknown. Also on one guy's three listings
the seller said someone had gotten into his ad and changed it and he
added a line at the bottom of the ad advising everyone not to bid at all.
Is that crazy or what? Thanks Mike

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