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In need of a 49 grille!

Just wondering any good sites for them or anyone willing to sell? Yes I have checked the popular sites all over $300 and can never seem to win a damn bid on Ebay.
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That's how many of us ended up with more than one truck.... you can buy a parts truck often for less that a couple of pieces then part the rest of it out to finance your own truck.

Good grilles are hard to come by.

Ebay win? Bid higher.


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Just wondering any good sites for them or anyone willing to sell? Yes I have checked the popular sites all over $300 and can never seem to win a damn bid on Ebay.
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You can buy the whole grill, new, in polished stainless steel from The Old Car Centre in Langley BC for less than 300 bucks.
 
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Post your location in the upper right hand corner, there might be someone close by who might have one. If you're close enough it might motivate someone to offer you one they have as a spare.
 
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There's one un the for sale section on here for $250 https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/9...eat-shape.html
 
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I have one that's a little beat up. You can have it for less than a third of the price on eBay, plus shipping. If you just need a grille, then this one will do. If you need a perfect grille, then I recommend paying a few hundred $$.
 
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Panelman email me please clbaseball22@yahoo.com if you have pics please send some....what's your price?
 
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Here's the grille. It's the green one.









Sent you an email as well.
 
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Haven't gotten the email yet but it's perfect! Lol yes I definately want it!
 
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Originally Posted by MiaKid22
Just wondering any good sites for them or anyone willing to sell? Yes I have checked the popular sites all over $300 and can never seem to win a damn bid on Ebay.
Thanks!
Get yourself a bid sniper for epay. I hardly ever lose an auction unless some shmuck is willing to pay more than it's really worth to me. Figure out what it's worth to you and schedule a bid with 10 seconds left in the auction. Works most of the time. Tends to eliminate the ticky-tack bidding from rubes and depresses the price
 
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Almeida, no wonder I had no idea that existed, I would wait 5 sec before and enter like $20 more than the current bid for example and amazingly it would outbid me! Thanks !
 
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Three words: "Buy it Now" or I don't bother. I despise sniping. I lost one of these trucks to a sniper on ebay before I bought mine.

Don't get me started about that. I've used gunbroker.com (collect antique shotguns every now and then). It's like ebay for guns. They have a "15 minute rule". In other words, if somebody bids in the last 15 minutes of the auction, the auction is automatically extended another 15 minutes so the other bidders have time to react until they don't want to bid anymore. Theoretically, it replaces the old "going once, going twice......" in a real auction. You'll never see ebay do something like that. Would be too fair.
 
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Hey doc I really like the sound of that gun site wish eBay was like that!!!!
 
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Originally Posted by Mountaindoc
Three words: "Buy it Now" or I don't bother. I despise sniping. I lost one of these trucks to a sniper on ebay before I bought mine.

Don't get me started about that. I've used gunbroker.com (collect antique shotguns every now and then). It's like ebay for guns. They have a "15 minute rule". In other words, if somebody bids in the last 15 minutes of the auction, the auction is automatically extended another 15 minutes so the other bidders have time to react until they don't want to bid anymore. Theoretically, it replaces the old "going once, going twice......" in a real auction. You'll never see ebay do something like that. Would be too fair.
I understand why you feel that way about sniping. Bidding on ebay in the way they suggest is like taking a knife to a gunfight. I just got tired of losing to snipers , shill bidders and to rubes who don't understand value and just want it. Now I don't get angry because if I don't win I wasn't prepared to spend what everyone else was. No more Drama.
 




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