The guy emailed me back and was very nice about it, and made the corrections, so he's ok in my book.
However, I have to take issue with being "excused" for misrepresenting the car (whether by accident or not). If you're selling something on Ebay, you have an obligation to know at least the basics of what you're selling so you're not deceiving people who are less knowledgeable. Many people have no scruples and thus no problem with outright lying about their stuff....it happens ALLLL the time. That's also not an excuse.
Having said that, I agree there is a chance the guy really didn't know what he was doing, but c'mon, the guy is a used car dealer, so he knows the rules of disclosure. He also ran a Carfax on the car, so he also knows a little something about doing research to verify things. He very easily (with one post to this board for instance, or any number of places), could've discovered the car was not a real GN before putting it on Ebay and selling it as such.
I know I for one would never sell my Road Runner as a matching numbers car. I sure could get a lot more for it if I sold it as such, much like GNs are worth more than Turbo Ts or Ttypes. But that's not proper.
IMHO, it's not about being cocky, and it's not about s**t not stinking, it's about taking enough responsibility for what you're publicly selling and publicly claiming to know what it really is.
No offense intended or taken, Samballs.
