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Originally Posted by Mike964_61
Its a shame what BAT has turned into. When it first started all the cars they were selling seem to very nice and clean examples. This was when they were selling like 20 cars a week. Whatever this greed volume selling has turned into is nothing more than a bunch of misfit cars people don't want anymore. I would never buy a car on there regardless of how much money I had to blow. Initial concept was great, what it is now? -crap on a stick.
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And now it sure seems like they actually prefer the questionable cars since they come with a lower price point and thus a lower reserve which means a larger group of bidders which means it’s much more likely to sell which means BaT gets PAID. IT IS ALL BASED ON GREED, nothing more nothing less.
I submitted a turbo cab recently that they wanted nothing to do with while they coincidentally had the biggest turd of turbo cab (in the same year and color combo as mine) live at the very same time. The live one had a low reserve since it was a total POS, while I wanted more for mine since it was in very near concours condition. So there was no way to agree upon a reserve, as I could’ve gotten the reserve they wanted for mine by just selling it locally to a dealer at wholesale. So this whole notion that they “bring” the best examples to market for their members is complete and total bunk. It’s simply not the case. They “bring” the cars to market that are most likely to make them money, which much of the time means intentionally bringing a train wreck to market with a lower reserve while passing on the cream puffs, since those cream puffs cost more and have a much smaller buyer’s pool, which means less likely to sell and make BaT money.
And they do monitor posts and scrub the ones that don’t benefit the seller and BaT, this might be only occasionally, but I know it happens. Their practices are clearly questionable as far as I’m concerned.