This from the guy who was into a 1983 front wheel drive Cadillac...
-Curt
From: Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Cc: Andrew Strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 2, 2017 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Nice 300D on BAT
Good luck, Dan, although I gotta be honest - the color combination put me
to sleep in 10 seconds.
That being said, the light ivory and light interior are appropriate for the
FL heat.
Don't know what it will take to recoup your investment, but the final
hammer price should be $4250, +- $200.
On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Nope.
>
> BAT writes the copy based on information you supply them. To be honest,
> when I first read the copy I wasn’t happy. It’s written in a very third
> party sort of tense, or so I felt. After giving it some thought it
> occurred to me that they can’t make any definitive statements regarding the
> car or claims by the owner as they aren’t the selling agent - the owner
> is. With that in mind it made sense that they would use descriptive terms
> such as “It is said” and “appears to be” for example.
>
> There’s an approval process that you go through with a BAT employee and
> your auction does not go live until you have given 100% approval of the ad
> copy and pictures.
>
> I had some issues with them using some older pre-Martha’ing pictures in
> the auction that took several requests to have them removed. Part of this
> was probably my fault, as when I applied to have them list the car I gave
> them access to dropbox folders that had pictures both pre and post
> Martha’ing. They took some of the pre-Martha’ing pictures and used them in
> the original ad mockup.
>
> Other than that the process was pretty simple. They have some good tools
> for communication and handling of images that work well. It’s clear that
> someone had thought this whole thing out pretty well before launching it.
>
> I applied to list a week ago Friday, so roughly a week and a half ago. I
> got an acceptance email from them on Tuesday, I believe. It took some back
> and forth until Friday night before I approved it and they told me the car
> would list early this week.
>
> -D
>
>
> > On May 2, 2017, at 10:15 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> >
> > How long did it take you to come up with the description of the car?
> Did you read some old Rolls Royce ads to get in the proper mood?
> >
> > --FT
> >
> >
> > On 5/2/17 9:22 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
> >> I would be very happy at that price. I’m not at all unhappy with where
> it is now.
> >>
> >> Where’s Andrew? - he’s always low on these things, so maybe he can give
> me some good luck.
> >>
> >> -D
> >>
> >>
> >>> On May 2, 2017, at 9:13 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I can see this car going for between $5k and $10k. My guess is $6500.
> >>>
> >>> -------------
> >>> Max
> >>> Charleston SC
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 7:34 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <
> >>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> And a no reserve auction, too:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1982-mercedes-benz-300d-turbo/ <
> >>>> http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1982-mercedes-benz-300d-turbo/>
> >>>>
> >>>> -D
> >>>>
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