Collecting Cars auction results

[RATATTAK]

Zippy's selling a car tonight ... Morgan
ETA Looks like it didn't make reserve

Edited by RATATTAK on Wednesday 2nd December 19:45

[bennno]

RATATTAK said:

Zippy's selling a car tonight ... Morgan
ETA Looks like it didn't make reserve

Edited by RATATTAK on Wednesday 2nd December 19:45

It didn’t, I’d bid what I thought was a generous amount for it, but believe he was after 60+ which was too rich for me via an auction site.

[Stryke]

RATATTAK said:

Zippy's selling a car tonight ... Morgan
ETA Looks like it didn't make reserve

Edited by RATATTAK on Wednesday 2nd December 19:45

If you Google zippy and collectingcars the guy has a bid on every car currently listed there...

[HIS LM]

Zippy is a serial trader, was the link established to Targa Fiori ?

[bennno]

HIS LM said:

Zippy is a serial trader, was the link established to Targa Fiori ?

I believe that to be correct. I’m not sure why if you ran a business like that you’d use collecting cars as a platform to sell, I guess good way to buy stock, although still slightly confused by that as a lot of their stock is SOR.

[dinkel]

Are you guys saying there's no limit to how many cars one can buy via CC?

It should be a good thing to avoid serial buyers imo...

[Ferruccio]

dinkel said:

Are you guys saying there's no limit to how many cars one can buy via CC?

It should be a good thing to avoid serial buyers imo...

Why on earth would anyone care how many cars a particular buyer buys??

If the reserve is reached, everyone’s got what they were looking for.

[bennno]

Ferruccio said:

dinkel said:

Are you guys saying there's no limit to how many cars one can buy via CC?

It should be a good thing to avoid serial buyers imo...

Why on earth would anyone care how many cars a particular buyer buys??

If the reserve is reached, everyone’s got what they were looking for.

I don't see why you shouldn't bid on as many as you'd like and can afford. So long as its demonstrable that the transactions are completing afterwards.

I guess it becomes a bit less clear if you are bidding / buying in large volumes, run a car dealership, then start selling cars through cc where half way through an auction (with open bids on a car) the sale type gets modified (without bidder notification) from trade to private.

[ferrisbueller]

Bit weird if trade are buying from trade via the platform. Aren't there lines of communication to move cars offline without the fees? Maybe they can't agree on a value and let the auctions decide.

As posted previously, there are several traders buying stock from CC.

[SFTWend]

If I was a dealer trading in sports and prestige cars I'd probably set up auto bids on many lots with limits that provided a profit margin. This in the knowledge most lots sell for strong money so no risk of being successful on more cars than I wanted in stock.

[footsoldier]

That's a new one - an auction site where you want to avoid people who buy a lot ;-)
Serial buyers...can't trust 'em...

[RATATTAK]

SFTWend said:

If I was a dealer trading in sports and prestige cars I'd probably set up auto bids on many lots with limits that provided a profit margin. This in the knowledge most lots sell for strong money so no risk of being successful on more cars than I wanted in stock.

and it looks like that's exactly what Zippy's doing !

[SFTWend]

RATATTAK said:

Well he bought the Mustang last week for £38,888 so let's see if it gets to Targa Florio Cars

Over 40% markup on that if my maths is correct.

[Jonny TVR]

why on earth would you buy off them unless you have a trade in and even so!

[Jonny TVR]

you would think zippy would change his account name

[majordad]

A friend of mine’s called Whippy, maybe he’d sell Zippy the name, or do a cash with name exchange?

[WD-40]

Zippy also tried to sell a Maserati 3200 recently, but it went unsold:

https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/2000-maserati-...

The description states he acquired the vehicle in March 2020 but I think when someone queried his reasons for selling so soon in the comments (now deleted), he stated it was "his own personal car" that he'd owned for 5 years, sold it in March but then the buyer decided they didn't want it so he gracefully took it back...

[RATATTAK]

HIS LM said:

Zippy is a serial trader, was the link established to Targa Fiori ?

https://www.targafloriocars.com

[bennno]

RATATTAK said:

HIS LM said:

Zippy is a serial trader, was the link established to Targa Fiori ?

https://www.targafloriocars.com

Clearly is, mustang he purchased Is now for sale at Targa Florio.

Question is whether the owner of a motor dealers could / should be selling their ‘personal’ cars as private sales via CC. I was a bit aghast that I’d bid on a car that he was selling that said trade, which suddenly got changed to private without notification or a reset of the auction / live bids.

[Petrus1983]

Surely someone is set for a total bargain?