1991 Dodge ram 250 - Transmission Rebuilt!

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Kinda...

I sold the tube bumper yesterday, got a chrome 1991 bumper with some cash on top. The roof is mocked up and ready to weld, but I haven't had time to weld it.

I have a buyer for it, it's a buddy who has been begging for me to sell him one of my trucks for a few years now, lol.

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I rarely have enough time to get the welder setup and actually do any work on it with a 14 month old kid, so the garage is a hell of a mess, and I've got a lot of other irons in the fire right now. Once I get it welded, the buddy is gonna do some body work on it in my garage, and then buy it from me.


It's moving. Slowly, but moving.
 
I want my garage back...

I haven't done anything to this truck but use it as a horizontal surface for things. I listed it on FB over the weekend, and first person with cash gets it.

Still needs the roof welded, still needs a windshield. Two people have made reasonable offers, but haven't showed up.

It could be yours for $1850, obo. (don't ban me for a sale post in a tech forum.)
 
So, I've done more in the past two days than the past two years. I welded the section of roof skin in, prepped for paint, primered it, and now I'm waiting for a tube of seam sealer to arrive, then I'm going to paint it to match.

I got tired of all the messages and questions "What do you mean it needs a roof welded? What is that?" And so forth. Now it just needs a windshield installed, and for $208, that can be done too.

Now all the interior lights work, but the headlights don't, and I suspect it's the headlight switch fuses. Uff.

Still for sale though, I don't think a single person who looked at it thus far hasn't had knuckle tattoos. One guy today made up the dumbest story about how he had to go to his bank to get the cash (it's Sunday) and never came back.
 
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It sold on eBay last week. Got picked up by the transporter today.

Once I get the bill of sale back in the mail (got delivered today) it's totally free and clear!

Dude already paid me via paypal, and I called them up and they're like "yeah, you're totally protected on this one, it's through eBay Motors, so you're good."


Now I'm looking at picking up a shitty civic.
 
So, I figure the buyer is reading this now, which is cool. Good for him.

Tuesday, he contacted me via telephone and text message to tell me how great the truck is, and how he put a tank of gas through it. 16-gallon tank, 11 mpg, so he put about 175 miles on it, give or take. He told me how much he likes driving it, and how he got a windshield put in, and some other stuff done to it.

Then, this guy sent me a message Thursday night, saying the typical scam "Hey, the transmission has some issues, and the engine smokes" trying to get eBay to open a case. eBay's policy is that once he pays, and gets the title, it's his. Not reversible. So, I ignored his obviously scammy message.

Then, Saturday sometime, he lodged a PayPal "Not as Described" case. After some research, I discovered that PayPal's Buyer Protection doesn't cover vehicles. End of statement. So I spent total about 2 hours on the phone with PayPal getting that case decided in my favor and my account unfrozen, not to mention the 8 or so hours I spent getting information together to prove that the sale was as-is with no warranty. Once I got through to a person who could do something with PayPal, they decided the case in my favor on the phone. Even if they didn't cover vehicles, the eBay ad states pretty clearly the condition.

Now, I get to wait. Hopefully he's not stupid, and realizes that he bought a 28 year old truck, without a windshield, as-is, and declined to inspect in-person but instead sent a transportation company (who may or may not have done stupid shit with it, but probably not) to pick it up. Hopefully this guy isn't a fool and realizes that I can call his bluff, and I know about the "oh, I bought this car and now the transmission is not working right" scam -- but if not, I'm legally prepared to collect damages for his frivolous abuses of the eBay and PayPal systems that ultimately wasted my weekend, my wife's weekend, and negatively impacted my daughter's weekend.

So, eBay was great. PayPal was great. The buyer wasn't.
 
So, dude is still trying to extort me.

He's telling me, via text message, that he will send me the signed bill of sale after I pay him $300.

So, uh, guess I figure out how to deal with that...

Not to mention he lodged a paypal "not as described" case on THE NON-REFUNDABLE EBAY DEPOSIT, lol. Because he paid with PayPal credit, they can't just rule in my favor, they have to go through the arbitration process completely... Not sure what that's all about, but PayPal did remove the negative balance while it's under investigation.
 
He is still attempting to extort me for the bill of sale via text message, a couple times a week. So, good times.

I may have to get a lawyer involved to get a bill of sale out of this guy. It sucks that someone who works for the school board acts in such a way. I can't help but wonder if there is something in his employment contract about extortion, especially when it crosses state lines...

PayPal is going to decide the case tomorrow, so there's that, which is nice. Maybe this can all be over by Easter.
 
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