| quote | Originally posted by rbell2915:
If you find another set, let me know, I won't complain. |
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It was a long time ago... back in the late 90s / early 2000s in South Florida. There were at least 5 new Fieros in the junkyard every single week. They'd bring them in on Thursday, crush em by the following Friday. Several of them were 88s, most of them were loaded, and it was rare that I saw any that were really clapped out. Lots of getrags, performance sound subwoofer kits, you name it. Most of them had some kind of aftermarket thing from the Fiero Store (like the glove box, or the little tray that its behind the shifter in the radio). There were so many Fieros, I can't even tell you. This is where they all ended up... because it's sunshine all the time.
I grabbed every T-TOP set I could find and would sell them on eBay. I sold one set to someone on here from Hawaii who got really upset about the shipping price. I told him to pay me a certain amount based on estimated shipping, which he balked at, but paid it... (it was harder to estimate shipping costs back then). When I went to ship it, UPS wanted basically double that. So I paid it... which resulted in me actually losing like over 40 bucks on it in total costs (not counting my time). When the guy got it, he was furious that it cost even more and yelled at me, said he wasn't going to pay the extra shipping cost (which I didn't ask him to do), and then gave me a negative on eBay for it (which you could do at the time back then for no reason). I was like... man, this is lame. The dude was a hot head from the very beginning. Don't even remember the user on here... probably for the best.
It does go to show... re: the whole Fiero Factory thread above this one. There's a lot of really good people in this hobby... but there's also a whole other kind of people that ruin the hobby for everyone else. I used to make a little bit of money on the side selling parts for Porsche 944s, 928s, 911s, that would end up in the junkyard. We got Maseratis, Triumphs, Fiats, you name it... so I'd buy stuff if I could get it for cheap, and sell it on eBay. Usually went pretty well. Most of my problems happened with Fiero people, unfortunately.