Re: From Jason Lee. (long) (archive)

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I'm including my e-mail in this post because that's about as close to face-to-face as I can get without hopping on a plane.

I have no quibble with your reasons for selling the car. However, you have been nothing but contradictory in your statements about selling it. You state that you want to sell the to an enthusiast, yet you would not provide your e-mail address when posting about it to this board. Then you go and put it on E-Bay, subject to purchase to any schmo who could come up with the cash. And guess what, no one could or would.

Since it is a special car, it deserves (indeed, needs) to be sold in a specialized publication, like Roundel, Hemmings, even the friggin' DuPont Register. Have you considered consigning it with a specialized shop? Have you contacted Dinan or Midwest Motorsports to ask them if they have any interested buyers?

I never saw this car advertised on any other enthusiast board or e-mail list (UUC Digest, BMW Digest, or Mformation list to name three).

Selling this car for what you think it is worth to someone who can care for the car is going to take time and legwork. Putting it up on E-Bay was an attempt to take the easy way out.

Those are my opinions on this situation. If you don't agree, fine, but quit whining about it.

Okay, here's the deal. For the most part, I have gotten nothing but rude, and extremely inappropriate follow-up posts to my posts regarding the Dinan Turbo e28 M5 that I have been trying to sell. It's amazing how little respect some of you have shown me. Some of you have been very supportive, but most of you that have posted in regards to my selling the car have been incredibly rude, to say the least. It's apparent to me that the people who have left such posts are not aware of the value of the car I'm trying to sell. This is the e28 M5 board, you'd think that the people who frequent this board would know about, REALLY know about, the ONLY black-on-black 3.8 Dinan Turbo e28 M5 in existence. Weird. I feel like I'm some hack who's trying to sell some average car for far too much money. THIS IS NOT THE CASE, and of all the people who should know that, it should be the people on this board. I can only imagine how Rob Levinson must feel having been the previous owner of the car, to know that so many people on this board have questioned a car that HE sold to me. Rob Levinson is a very well respected person in the BMW community, so this kind of disrespect not only affects me, but it affects him, as well. This kind of behavior is totally uncalled for, and very rude, to say the least. This is a legitimate car, being sold by a legitimate person, so PLEASE show some respect. If you're interested in the car, then ask about it, if not, then please, just ignore my posts. Thanks.

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