Going once, going twice, SOLD!

I sold my 1982 Toyota Land Cruiser on eBay, you can see the completed auction here. I set the starting bid at $1,000 and had a high bid of $1,756 going into this morning, the last day of the auction. Several folks called and asked to come by and drive it. A couple of bids in the morning brought it up to $2,000, and I wasn't sure it was going to get much over that, especially since I mentioned in the description that I had paid $2,385 for it two years ago. By 2:30 pm, it was only at $2,007, and the auction ended at 5:47 pm, so I was pretty sure it had stalled. Several people emailed me to buy the vehicle outside the auction, but no one made a decent offer, the best was only $50 more than the highest bid so far. But there was a flurry of bids starting 10 minutes before the end of the auction, and the price went up in roughly $50 increments all the way to $3,100. In six days I had 7 bids, in the last day I had 27, 16 of which were in the last 10 minutes. I'm sure it would have gone higher if there was more time. My strategy of setting up the auction to end on Sunday evening, after everyone had had the weekend to check out my auction and were available to bid, seemed to have paid off. Anyway, it was a fun vehicle, but I'm glad to get the additional driveway space. My neighbors already think I'm the white trash of Bellaire, since I have had as many as four vehicles in front of my house, with at least one not working. In the last six months I've given one back (my El Paso company car), sold two (the Land Cruiser and my 1993 BMW 325is) and sent one to get worked on (my 1967 GTO convertible). And only acquired one, my new 2005 Lexus ES330, with which I am very pleased.