ebay canoes

[Jan Bloom]

there are 2 canoes on ebay being sold by some bleep threatining to make them into book shelves. The bleep also brags about having made many old canoes into book cases.

 

[Steve Ambrose]

Lets give him a blanket party. Or if you prefer to be more polite we could call it an intervention.

 

[Kathryn Klos]

Maybe he's threatening that because he believes there are people who will rescue his canoes before he takes a chain saw to them.

We're about five hours from his town...

 

[woodcanoenut]

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Jan can you post where this item is locate? Would like to follow progress

 

[bsterling1745]

The guy lives in Duluth. I'd take him seriously about his threat to cut them up. Last fall he had a 17' Old Town for sale on ebay for $150 in the ad he said he'd cut it up if it didn't sell. I wrote to him with questions about the pictures which seemed to show about half of each end missing - easily six inches of stem, planking and deck missing. When the auction ended with no bids I wrote back and told him that if he reposted it on ebay, I'd bid the $150 - I expected he'd repost or work a non-ebay sanctioned side deal. I am not sure that I wanted it but I was ready for a trip to Duluth. He wrote back and said he'd get back to me but he never did. Two days later he had them cut in half and posted on ebay for at least $150 a half. The half canoe pictures showed the same missing ends. I wondered how he would sell them but he must have sold them, cause here he is again. In fairness to the guy, he strikes me as someone just trying to get by, he's got a market for these things and he's gonna sell them when he can. I don't think the logic of saving old canoes, or in the extreme, being wood canoe righteous will mean much to him. I hope someone buys them or we'll be seeing these canoes on ebay again, a little shorter this time.

B

 

[Jan Bloom]

ebay #320579678245, for those interested.

 

[Dan Lindberg]

Thanks for posting this guys.

I hadn't seen this guy yet. It's a bit embarrassing that he's from MN, though there used to be another guy just west of the Cities that did/does the same thing. At least this canoe doesn't look like much.

B, you're not far away, if you're not on the MN Chapter list, Barry is hoping to get in a paddle in early Sept, someplace south of the Cities, location TBD.

Dan