First, I guarantee all of you just tuning in that this will most likely be the most entertaining thread you will read all year. This is all about this thread yesterday:
Duck Tail For Sale- Porsche Oem
Unfortunately it was built up and edited down by moderator Noah (rightfully so) so it's tough to really understand exactly what went on without a field guide.
Here's what happened. This fellow posts that he has a factory ducktail but clearly doesn't know exactly what he has. You'll see a post by me after Milt's (Zeke) but that is actually several posts later, the previous ones being edited out. My first post was something like, "what is this worth, $1500?" based on some reasonable knowledge of the factory ducktail market, based in part on tech and classifieds on Pelican.
Souk immediately posts how ridiculously high that estimate is and that I'm trying to jack up prices. My post, as it stands after Milts, is still in the post.
Souk and I go back and forth (BTW, judging from Souk's new posts, it looks like he copied and pasted the original posts, for posterity? I don't know) and then... Ubiquity0 posts a link to a few factory tails in Europe going for $2500 and $3100 respectively when converting euro to $.
Many more posts go back and forth, my take as noted by Noah is that this is a community and as altruistic as these board may seem, they are a major part of Wayne's marketing plan. If someone feels "taken" because they didn't know what they had, say a rare factory duck tail, they not only have negative feelings toward that person, they also have negative feelings toward Pelican. I'm not sure Wayne wants anyone at PCA meeting to have someone say he got ripped off by someone on Pelican. At that point, the someone is irrellevent, it's "ripped off" and Pelican that sticks. And yes, I believe, crazy as it may sound, that as a longtime member of a community of brothers all focused on Porsches, you do have a duty to each other. If it's not your thing, I understand.
I received some email, one was very good and it pointed out that if I had done this at a swap meet, I'd get beat-up. Actually, that's true, but this isn't a swap meet, or ebay, this is a community.
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