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3-Year-Old Buys £9,000 car

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  • Hintza
    Hintza Posts: 19,420 Forumite
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    What was the BIN price paid..was it £9,000?

    Highest these things reach is under £6,000....Hmmmmm
  • MyUserNamesTaken
    MyUserNamesTaken Posts: 4,486 Forumite
    Soolin, what's the new listing number?
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  • Contains_Mild_Peril
    Contains_Mild_Peril Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    Whether the whole story was manufactured or not, it did occur to me as soon as I read it that it may well have increased the car's value, and that it may have been the seller himself who contacted the press (or had an agent do so). If I were the mother who allowed a 3-year-old to "buy" a car on eBay, I think I'd be too embarrasssed to publicise the fact!
  • pulliptears
    pulliptears Posts: 14,583 Forumite
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    Never mind the BBC, get the kid on mastermind he is obviously a genius.....
  • Agutka
    Agutka Posts: 2,376 Forumite
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    He didn't win the car, he just made a bid, which was then retracted by the seller. Keep sleuthing though.
    :wall:
  • pulliptears
    pulliptears Posts: 14,583 Forumite
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    Old listing
    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=10402&item=330029235865

    New listing
    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FIGARO-IN-BARBIE-PINK_W0QQitemZ330031988080QQihZ014QQcategoryZ10402QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
  • soolin
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    MyUserNamesTaken wrote:
    Soolin, what's the new listing number?

    I reckon it might be this one :

    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1991-NISSAN-FIGARO-PINK_W0QQitemZ150034610264QQihZ005QQcategoryZ18238QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

    Note that it doesn't show as a relist (but that isn't conclusive of course) and this time they are auctioning rather than BIN' ing it.

    I'll watch to see what it closes at, although I have no real idea what it is actually worth.
    Personally I'll keep my black C3 any day, the pink car looks rather horrible.

    Soo
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  • pulliptears
    pulliptears Posts: 14,583 Forumite
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    soolin, its not that one. Its listed under "barbie Pink Figaro", see the links in my post before yours :)
  • soolin
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    Incidentally there is another one listed here:

    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1991-NISSAN-FIGARO-STUNNING-IN-BABY-PINK_W0QQitemZ200031242890QQihZ010QQcategoryZ18238QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

    but I decided that it was more likely to be the first as it appears to be a garage selling it.

    Soo
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  • soolin
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    pulliptears wrote:
    soolin, its not that one. Its listed under "barbie Pink Figaro", see the links in my post before yours :)


    OK, sorry I didn't see that one. Yes that's obviously it.

    Expensive though compared to the other ones listed...

    Soo
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