May 23, 2008
I’ve seen a number of stamps in my day, but not enough to make me an expert. But I had to share this one.
This “9″ doesn’t necessarily look it came from the factory.
 
This VIN put this car in the September production cycle. His block is F309, putting this 512 block at June, 30th 1969. His engine assembly date is TO819LR. – Tonawanda August 19th, 1969.
Trim Tag = N10 puts the Body Build date at September 10th, 1969.
So on the surface the numbers check out, but that “9″ is ugly.
EBay Auction # = 290230968174
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February 22, 2008
Wow! An impressive example, but boy that price seems really high. I watched a similar car go for $175k at Barrett Jackson, so I’m not feeling the $385k on this car today.
eBay Auction ID = 320247633118
 Car has a great looking engine stamp by the way.
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February 22, 2008
Continuing  on my last theme, “Three Pillars of a Strong eBay Auction”, I want to talk about the importance of Photography. Â
To quickly review the theme, I believe there are 3 critical factors to a successful Corvette Auction on eBay:
Data / Photographs / Documentation
I reviewed earlier the importance of data, and how to represent that data, and I have the following example of an auction that does a tremendous job focusing on the data, but lacks the real photographic detail to get top bidders taking action.
This car has been relisted, and relisted and relisted a number of times. The weak spot in my opinion, clearly the photographic detail necessary to build bidder confidence.
If you want $70,000 for your car, you sure better get it out in the daylight and atleast make an attempt to take some quality shots. The photographs appear to be taken in a basement garage or warehouse. I don’t know how many auctions I have seen, where the individual doesn’t even bother to move the car from the garage, and the viewer is distracted by rakes, lawnmowers, snowblowers, or the lister’s other collector cars. If you can’t get that car out in the sun, how is a viewer to believe that the car even starts? Seriously.
For this particular auction, the seller could easily do this car justice by taking it out on a nice day, and staging the car for proper presentation. In future posts, I’ll show some outstanding examples of photographic documentation. For the time being, I wish this seller well.
This car looks fairly nice, but you wouldn’t know it by what’s showing here.
 eBay Auction ID = 200189233525
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