Fuseboxes on Ebay

[dk240z]

Anybody noticed some of the "excellent" fuseboxes on Ebay lately? I've got two "Excellent" fuseboxes which are soon to be buried in about fifty feet of Texas backfill. Although, you really don't need lights if your driving around the farm.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=34206&item=4518845937&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

[texasz]

Do you have the short or long pigtail versions? What condition are they in?

[dk240z]

Both are short pigtail from two '72 zs with melted taillight fuse holders just like the one on Ebay. Basically junk. If you look closely, you can see that the Right center fuse holder (Park Tail Estec. Trace) is toasted, the 20 amp fuse that alway overheated. Texasz,didn't you sell me a grill? If you did, thanks, it's excellent.

[TomoHawk]

Wow, that 240Z fusebox looks like it's easy to get out. I spent A WEEK trying to figure out how to get the one out of my 280Z just far enough for a vinegarette bath!

[Bambikiller240]

dk240z: Is that auction yours?

[Zs-ondabrain]

I hope it's not his. I just sent a bitch letter asking the seller if he was serious.

It says "perfect" That fusebox is so far from perfect its not even funny. I told him that any one with two eyes can easily see the parking light fuse is melted to hell and that he should apologize and do a rewrite.

$^!# like that ticks me off. If I would have recieved that in the shape it's in after being told it was "perfect", I would shove it up his A$$.

But thats just me.

Dave.

[Bambikiller240]

Well Dave, since you mentioned that, I'll add that the little holder for the fuse removal tool (and the tool itself) is missing from the auction item. Not to mention the starting price of $49 is IMO high even if it was in "excellent" condition. I picked up 2 of them a year ago or so and paid under $30 incl shipping for each one. (and they were in excellent condition, had the fuse remover tool, no burned up fuse holders, etc.)

[Zs-ondabrain]

Sounds like a good find Carl, I guess I'm just venting but that kinda crap pisses me off. I looked at his "other items up for auction" and almost all of them said "perfect". Which they clearly were'nt.

I'm going to bed now. See ya tomorrow Carl

Dave.

[Mike]

That guy on Ebay is selling absolute crap and he calls it perfect. He needs some really bad feedback to keep people from buying ....

[Mike]

Looks like he has plenty of bad feedback dating back a long time... anyone who buys from this guy is not very intelligent.

[hls30.com]

There are several sellers running that game, post a marginal picture of a piece in poor to fair shape, coated with engine gloss to cover discoloration and small cracks, discribe it as "mint", "excellent", "as new", "Better than New" or may personal favorate,

"9 to 9.5 out of 10".

I bought a 240Z console at the end of last year. The sellers blurb was:

"Hi, I have 3 zcars, and i was restoring my 72 for resale soon on ebay. I have this awsome center console i was going to put in it, however i have decided to keep the customized console in the car(custum painted and trimmed for fan switch relocation). This console is basically mint! not a crack or blemish anyplace...ashtray chrome is even like new. Only thing is that the actual ash trey could use a cleaning. All wire bundles are perfect and ready to go into your restoration project, or keep as a spare. I would give this console an easy 9 one a 1-10 scale, almost ready for a show car i'd say. Check my feed back and bid with confidence. I think the pics speak for them selves"

WHen the console arrived, I detailed the "cracks and blemish"es that are in the console,

1) A 3/4" hole drilled on the passenger side(after looking again, it is just bearly visible in one of the pictures)

2) Chips all along the shifter hole(some are actually in the picture)

3) A perferation through the top surface from tightening one of the choke assembly screws too far(once again in the picture, but not clearly.)

4) Sanding marks on the ashtray chrome(not in the picture).

5) covered with engine coating to hide discolloration and further hairline cracks in the console-in the picture, but how can you tell untill you clean the sticky mess off!

6) A massive gob of goo and a steel plate under the choke mounting to reinforce all of the broken off cast in mounting locations.

I sent the seller an email pointing out the disparity between a true 9 of 10 and this 5 of 10 that he had sent. I also pointed out that this was a restorable console, but that it was no where close TO "AN easy 9 one a 1-10 scale, almost ready for a show car". I detailed the things that would make a "9 of 10", and offered to send him a series of pictures of a NOS console so that he would know. That did not go over well.

Shipping was heavily inflated as well.

He did offer to refund my purchase, less inflated shipping. But that does not change the fact that the sentances he chose to describe the same piece he sent me were absolute lies. They were conscious misrepresentations of the physical state of the console-even if I chose the refund route he would end up being paid for his time and trouble, and the console would go to the next person who read and trusted the words and didn't look closely at the pictures. That is the mark of a con artist, not an uninformed newbie. Look at what one of our new members is doing to take care of misinformation on his part when selling a pair of floor mats-that is what happens with a true mistake.

I kept the console because several of the defects were in the pictures the seller had included and he had the sentance, "I think the pics speak for them selves". Had I bothered to look more closely, they would have spoken to me that the seller was dishonest in his discription, but that a picture doesn't lie.

Use everything provided by the seller to evaluate his statements and ask questions when the pictures and a statement are opposing.

The seller was HWK60.

He has had the audacity to reply to my feedback with this:

Reply by hwk60: This is by far one of the nicest used but reconditioned consoles sold on ebay. Jan-15-05 07:38

No where in the ad did it mention reconditioned, everywhere in the ad it di mention how wonderful it is

Will

[TomoHawk]

The thing that bothers me is that if people are stripping 240Zs ( or 260Zs or 280Zs) for the parts to sell, then where do you get the parts to restore the stripped cars??

If the parts are in great condition, I'd think the rest of the car was too. Unless the car was totalled on the day after delivery, and was store hermetically since