OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Finding and Swapping For Sale Vortex For Sale on ePrey

For those who are interested a genuine Vortex is going to finish in 4 hours on Fleabay. It's currently up to $50 and it has the correct catcher.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/182506098407?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Cheers,
BB.

And I had the high bid on it for a week, I'm out now, pity it is just up the road

Hi Norm,

All the more reason to buy it as you won't have to pay any freight which other bidders will have to take into account. That normally keeps the value lower than its true value.

Not many complete ones of these around. I must admit I sold mine for $200 a while back so at $80 it's still a good price.

Cheers,
BB.

The red one with the CSIRO disc. It would be nice of there weren't any pesky bidders inflating the price.

I'll have to say that the bidding looks very suspicious and I suspect the seller is running it up with another ID. There is so much of this going on now on eBay it's just not funny.
eBay made it slightly less transparent a few years ago but I think it's time to revert back and expose this practice, but then again why would eBay want to as the get a higher Final Value Fee.


BTW I think the front has had it's lower lip broken off as you can't see it across the whole width of the mower and the seller has specifically taken the shots so as not to expose that section. There is a Yellow one up at the moment and it has it's frontal lip.

Cheers,
BB.

I had noticed the front lip looked like it was broken

There is a pair of Vortices in Victoria as well.

Definitely the owner bid it up using another ID. If you click the number of bids you can see the bid history and see that there were dummy bids happening. In the end though it looks like some real buyers jumped in as well.

Egged on by the dummy bids, thinking it was popular and worth getting.

Honestly I don't think so. You can see that one serious bidder jumped on but retracted his bid after the bogus bidder kept running him up.

In the end I'd say we'll see this one come up again as the owner wore it.

Cheers,
BB.

I love it when that happens, makes me smile, I don't win much on ebay and if I do win I get worried that there must be something about it that I have missed or I have bid on a pile of rubbish.

I no longer bid on anything on eBay after striking too many instances of the seller acting as dummy bidders. If they don't have a buy it now price that suits me I'm not interested. I have reported some to eBay but I don't know if they ever actually do anything about it.

Maybe the police as that is fraud. Good luck proving it.

Ebay don't care, why would/should they. I recently won a Victa 24 for $200 took a chance, ended up a good slasher and with minimal effort it went back to work, got lucky that time because they don't come up that often and usually the sellers want about $300

Yer, it's nearly always a bit 'pig in a poke', buying off the Bay of Fleas.

Saw a Super 24 in the local tip shop today, with $20 on it - but it had a Briggs Quantum mounted on it, and was consequently missing the big fuel tank.

Hi Gadge, which tip shop, I will drive up there tomorrow morning if it is still there. I have a mountain of Powertorques sitting here trying to find bodies for them and a fuel tank is no issue, soon make one of those

Too bad you're in Melbourne Norm, I have a few Victa chassis's laying around here.

Check your PM's, Norm.

A member on my page won the auction.

Thanks Trev, I still have a few chassis here, just haven't had time to clean and paint them over the last couple of months, but my pile of motors is probably about 4 motors to each base, because most bases are rusted out