Baller Alert: Want to Buy President Obama’s Sedan?
Show your baller side and get the ultimate collector’s item of the day: President Obama’s 2005 Chrysler Sedan. Before he was president, Obama used to drive himself to work at the Springfield state house with this very car. The owner of the car found out that he bought Obama’s car, and put the merchandise up on eBay to be auctioned.
Lisa Czibor who’s running the auction for “a friend of a friend” put the starting bid at $1 million. She said to ABCNews.com:
“How do you put a price on something like that?”
Czibor also explained about the car:
“The guy who bought it found out it was Obama’s car. He put 1,600 miles on it and once Barack was elected president, he stopped driving it.”
So far, although many people clicked on it, the listing has not received any bid. So is Barack Obama the first president whose car is up for auction? Apparently not. Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used to drive a 1977 Peugeot when he was mayor of Tehran, and when he put his car up for auction last year it fetched a cool 1.5 British Pounds.
The eBay listing says Obama traded the Chrysler 200C for a hybrid car due to the negative media attention in Detroit regarding the gas-guzzling V-8 Hemi. He put over 19,000 miles on the car before finally trading it for a 2007 Ford Escape Hybrid. The Chrysler was left on a Ford lot before the current owner bought the car.
Do you think you want the Chrysler? If you do, check out the listing on eBay today and hurry because the auction will end on February 1st.
Photo by Lisa Czibor
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What a fine automobile. If anyone pays more than the blue book – idiot.
Anyway, as far as saving/buying on eBay in general goes:
If you send the seller a question about an item, find another of their listings, and send the question from that item page, rather than from the one that you actually want. This will add a little bit of work for the seller, if they want to add your question and their answer to the item description page that you are actually interested in.
If you see an item that you want listed in auction format, send the seller a message asking if they will accept $x to end the auction early and sell the item to you. If that doesn’t work, use a sniping service such as Bidball.com to bid for you. It’ll bid in the last few seconds, helping you to save money and avoid shill bidding.
Use Ebuyersedge.com to set up saved searches. You’d get an e-mail whenever a match is listed. Especially good for “Buy It Now”s that are priced right.
If the item that you are looking for is a long word or a bit difficult to spell, try Typojoe.com to hopefully find some deals with items that have main keywords misspelled in the title. Other interested buyers might not ever see them. Then, if the item is listed an auction format, after a few days of no bids (hopefully anyway) send the seller and offer to end the auction early and sell the item to you. They may worry that no one is interested, and take whatever they can get.