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Subject:This GoWesty is really starting to annoy me....
From:BJ Feddish
Date:Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:02:21 -0400

I like ordering misc nick nacks from GoWesty that I cannot find somewhere
else. Besides, they have it in my mailbox 2 days later and I'm on the other
side of the country.  Today, for humorous purposes, I clicked on the
Vehicles for Sale.  If I remember back a few years they used to sell these
"restored" vans for "$22-25K" and we were all up in arms about their prices.
Today I took a peak at http://www.gowesty.com/vehicles_for_sale.php and
almost fell out of my chair.  An '85 for $29K, an '86 non-Syncro for
$53,831.53????? An '87 for $63K?????  Is this for real?  I mean really, who
has that kind of money to throw around? Geez, and we were bitchin when they
were charging $25K.  Here's the real kicker, if you read their ad they say
"Yeah we picked up this baby for $500 and with our markup you pay only $600
but we can't sell it to you for that, it would not be your best interest."
What?, it's in my best interest that they tack on $30K more for a motor,
paint and detailing?  Geez. Who are these idiots selling their vans to
GoWesty for a  couple hundred or a couple thousand dollars?  Every van they
buy is usually WAY below what I could find the same van on eBay, the Samba,
etc.

Geez, I just noticed the 1990 Syncro Westy for $90K.  Some people have too
much damn money out there in CA.

Sorry, just needed to vent.

Now back to your regularly scheduled list programming.

Bryan