I'm sure a few of you will remember that CENTAUR that popped up on eBay late last year?
As bids increased there was talk in the FB/ebay thread saying bidders must be off their rockers bidding on it (it reached £2600 I think?
I was after a Centaur for a while and with advice I knew my rough budget of 1400 considering the work required. I went for it and was outbid with it going up by over 1k more.
So I forgot about it... A week later the seller messaged me, saying the highest bidders were being awkward (and wouldn't commit to paying till they could collect if I remember correctly).
So he offered it to me for my highest bid, we exchanged a few messages and I felt it was too good to be true, even that it could be a scam.
I didn't believe it till we turned up to pick it up with help from @Jmac who was local and kindly offered to look after the cabinet (we had no transport and still thought it might be dodgy so didn't hire anything). Can't thank Jmac enough for helping us out and making sure we weren't murdered in a dark isolated house (and looking after it!)
We've had the backbox since late last year, sitting in the lounge acting as some awesome decor!
Yesterday the rest of Centaur arrived.
I'll let the pics do the talking...
You tell me, was I on crack for paying that much? I think the pf is pretty good, only a few areas of wear. The cab is really good except the back which is a disaster and crumbling away.
Luckily there's an awesome person called @AlanJ who is the man for these games, especially Centaur so has been a great advisor so far... Time will tell if Alan blocks me with all the stupid questions coming over the next few weeks (saying that I think he's used to it by now)
(I ask did I pay too much, when infact @Lecari and intended to go halves on the entire project. But Claire ended up paying for the purchase then said my half will be getting it up and running )
As bids increased there was talk in the FB/ebay thread saying bidders must be off their rockers bidding on it (it reached £2600 I think?
I was after a Centaur for a while and with advice I knew my rough budget of 1400 considering the work required. I went for it and was outbid with it going up by over 1k more.
So I forgot about it... A week later the seller messaged me, saying the highest bidders were being awkward (and wouldn't commit to paying till they could collect if I remember correctly).
So he offered it to me for my highest bid, we exchanged a few messages and I felt it was too good to be true, even that it could be a scam.
I didn't believe it till we turned up to pick it up with help from @Jmac who was local and kindly offered to look after the cabinet (we had no transport and still thought it might be dodgy so didn't hire anything). Can't thank Jmac enough for helping us out and making sure we weren't murdered in a dark isolated house (and looking after it!)
We've had the backbox since late last year, sitting in the lounge acting as some awesome decor!
Yesterday the rest of Centaur arrived.
I'll let the pics do the talking...
You tell me, was I on crack for paying that much? I think the pf is pretty good, only a few areas of wear. The cab is really good except the back which is a disaster and crumbling away.
Luckily there's an awesome person called @AlanJ who is the man for these games, especially Centaur so has been a great advisor so far... Time will tell if Alan blocks me with all the stupid questions coming over the next few weeks (saying that I think he's used to it by now)
(I ask did I pay too much, when infact @Lecari and intended to go halves on the entire project. But Claire ended up paying for the purchase then said my half will be getting it up and running )