[SeanMattingly]

The black Judge auction ended. Then it disappeared off the face of the earth! It was at http://motors.search.ebay.com/?from=...52758716&fvi=1

That is weird how a completed auction could disappear without a trace.
Let's investigate. Here's what I found...

* The auction ended Friday, December 1st, 2006 at 12:05:54 PST. I remember
seeing it posted as completed. Then it went "away".
* That auction link now goes "nowhere"
* The seller was juniorsamples123. I know that because I sent him a message
about the car and have that record of it.
* He has been an ebay member since Mar-15-05 with 90.3% positive feedback.
* His user history does not show that auction as completed OR current. It's
just plain "gone"!!!
* If I click the link for the auction in ebay's "My Messages" section I get
this message:
"This listing (330052758716) has been removed
or is no longer available. Please make sure you
entered the right item number. If the listing was
removed by eBay, consider it canceled. Note:
Listings that have ended more than 90 days
ago will no longer appear on eBay."
* If I try to click on his user ID to ask him a question, I get this goofy message:
"The form is not available at this time. You are
attempting to communicate about an invalid item."
* Nobody gets their auction "erased" from ebay and still retains their user
ID without a suspension, right?
* The thumbnail image of his car is still available on ebay at http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/pict/33...87168080_0.jpg

Tonight I sent him a message about one of his other past auctions that was
still a valid auction number. Here's what I asked him...

"What happened to your black Judge on ebay? Me
and my GTO-loving friends were checking back in
to see what the selling price was. It does not show
up on your "current" or "past" auctions. That's weird,
huh? Is the car sold?

Tonight, he replied, not fully answering my question...

"CAR WAS SOLD THANKS FOR LOOKING, MAYBE NEXT CAR!"

So that's what I know.
Who can provide the name of the buyer?
Or who knows why the auction is "gone" from ebay?
He stated that the car DID sell. So is ebay aware of that fact?