BAT Auction Thread
Three Wheelin'
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From: HTX
Three Wheelin'
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From: PAC NW
Burning Brakes
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From: Near Philly, 997.1 C2 6MT
Woohoo! I finally win one. 
For the next auction, I call this one "You're my boy, blue!"
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...carrera-4s-14/
I'm more of a coupe than a cabrio guy but wow this is one nice spec. C4S, 6MT, X51, SC, even PTS with a nicely coordinated interior color. $130k+ in 2007!
$41,997 wolfsburgde
For the next auction, I call this one "You're my boy, blue!"
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...carrera-4s-14/
I'm more of a coupe than a cabrio guy but wow this is one nice spec. C4S, 6MT, X51, SC, even PTS with a nicely coordinated interior color. $130k+ in 2007!
$41,997 wolfsburgde
Pro
Joined: Jan 2018
Posts: 541
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From: Fort Worth
Nice color combo, manual, X51; going with $43k
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...carrera-4s-14/
$41,997 wolfsburgde
$43,000 floatingfish
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...carrera-4s-14/
$41,997 wolfsburgde
$43,000 floatingfish
Three Wheelin'
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From: HTX
I was hoping you'd pick that one. It looks amazing, and I'm also a coupe guy. I think this one does well.
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...carrera-4s-14/
$41,997 wolfsburgde
$43,000 floatingfish
$46,997 Jeebus31
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...carrera-4s-14/
$41,997 wolfsburgde
$43,000 floatingfish
$46,997 Jeebus31
Burning Brakes
Joined: Apr 2019
Posts: 852
Likes: 332
From: Dunnellon, Florida
Sweet cab. I'm in at $48,500.
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...carrera-4s-14/
$41,997 wolfsburgde
$43,000 floatingfish
$46,997 Jeebus31
$48,500 ilovemaui
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...carrera-4s-14/
$41,997 wolfsburgde
$43,000 floatingfish
$46,997 Jeebus31
$48,500 ilovemaui
Rennlist Member
Joined: Apr 2007
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From: Florida
This is a nice clean car, black exterior just doesn't make the rear hips more pronounce as the lighter color cars. I personally prefer a 6sp manual over a PDK, the low mileage will bring top dollars for this car. I'm in for $50,997.
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...1-carrera-s-9/
$41,000 Skyhawk172
$42,500 ilovemaui
$42,750 bgoetz
$43,000 groovzilla
$44,000 floatingfish
$46,500 jeebus31
$47,977 wolfsburgde
$48,500 Linderpat
$49,911 bloose993tt
$50,250 street rod
$50,750 jimfuerst
$50,997 Vincent713
$52,000 140.6er
$52,997 socal-NSX
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...1-carrera-s-9/
$41,000 Skyhawk172
$42,500 ilovemaui
$42,750 bgoetz
$43,000 groovzilla
$44,000 floatingfish
$46,500 jeebus31
$47,977 wolfsburgde
$48,500 Linderpat
$49,911 bloose993tt
$50,250 street rod
$50,750 jimfuerst
$50,997 Vincent713
$52,000 140.6er
$52,997 socal-NSX
I've never used this site except when I thought about selling my current car about a month ago. Said goodby to them when they asked for 60 pictures or somewhere in that range. What I don't understand is why offer $50,997 when there are already two offers higher than yours? Obviously there's something different about the auction specifics here than the traditional highest bidder wins. Can someone explain please?
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Burning Brakes
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Sweet cab. I'm in at $48,500.
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...carrera-4s-14/
$41,997 wolfsburgde
$43,000 floatingfish
$46,997 Jeebus31
$48,500 ilovemaui
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...carrera-4s-14/
$41,997 wolfsburgde
$43,000 floatingfish
$46,997 Jeebus31
$48,500 ilovemaui
Three Wheelin'
Joined: May 2017
Posts: 1,631
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Not a cab fan but love those wheels $40,997 reserve not met.
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...carrera-4s-14/
$40,997 Vincent713
$41,997 wolfsburgde
$43,000 floatingfish
$44,997 Socal-NSX
$46,997 Jeebus31
$48,500 ilovemaui
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...carrera-4s-14/
$40,997 Vincent713
$41,997 wolfsburgde
$43,000 floatingfish
$44,997 Socal-NSX
$46,997 Jeebus31
$48,500 ilovemaui
Three Wheelin'
Joined: May 2017
Posts: 1,631
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I've never used this site except when I thought about selling my current car about a month ago. Said goodby to them when they asked for 60 pictures or somewhere in that range. What I don't understand is why offer $50,997 when there are already two offers higher than yours? Obviously there's something different about the auction specifics here than the traditional highest bidder wins. Can someone explain please?
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From: Florida
It was just a guess and just a silly fun game we are playing. The closest price to the winning or highest bid wins this game. BAT was meant for higher end cars so they have their own restrictions. I would definitely use them to sell my cars because there are some high rollers willing to pay top dollars if the car checks all their boxes. $100 is worth it to me. Just be prepared to have a lot of photos including underneath the car, any service records and a video of cold start up or driving the car. Oh and also be prepared to answer any questions bidders might ask.
Thanks Vincent. It wasn't just your bid that triggered my question. This whole thread and other BAT threads are littered with new bids that are lower than existing bids. Never saw this before on auction type sites. I don't care about their fees. As I said yesterday in a separate thread, their photo obsession just seems a bit odd to me. As you said, it's mostly for high end cars so no matter how many pictures or how few, the potential buyer will have a thorough PPI done anyway so what's the point with 60 or more pictures including pics from underneath the car? Nobody will buy any of their cars without a PPI so as I said in the other thread, 10-15 pictures to get a general idea of what we're dealing with here plus a phone number to the seller would be worth a whole lot more to me than an endless photo album.
Three Wheelin'
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Thanks Vincent. It wasn't just your bid that triggered my question. This whole thread and other BAT threads are littered with new bids that are lower than existing bids. Never saw this before on auction type sites. I don't care about their fees. As I said yesterday in a separate thread, their photo obsession just seems a bit odd to me. As you said, it's mostly for high end cars so no matter how many pictures or how few, the potential buyer will have a thorough PPI done anyway so what's the point with 60 or more pictures including pics from underneath the car? Nobody will buy any of their cars without a PPI so as I said in the other thread, 10-15 pictures to get a general idea of what we're dealing with here plus a phone number to the seller would be worth a whole lot more to me than an endless photo album.
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From: Long Island, N.Y.
I purchased a 1990 e30 Convertible BMW in 2017 from BAT. The seller and I went back and forth and he answered all my questions during the bidding process. The car was very well documented with at least one hundred pictures. As I am very familiar with the e30 platform I was fairly confident in what I was going to win. However, there will always be questions when you can’t get a ppi.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Mar 2019
Posts: 855
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From: Near Philly, 997.1 C2 6MT
BaT is a unique auction environment in that everyone (even random bozos like me) can see all the bids, all the comments, and view commenters' bid/sale/history. In this current auction, some commenter chimed in that he had a PPI done on this car and found serious issues. I'm sure that pisses off the seller to no end since that could suppress bidding and you'd never get the same on ebay or Barrett-Jackson, etc. It's a double edged sword though since commenters sometimes point out stuff that INCREASES the value of a car, if the seller didn't know how special or rare it is.