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General Lee eBay Bidder a Phony!

TMZ has learned the $10 million man who bid on John Schneider's "General Lee" automobile has reneged on his bid to buy the famous ride.
General Lee
A source connected to the sale tells TMZ that the first deposit deadline for Mr. William Fisher, the winning bidder, was missed for making any type of formal payment arrangements with Schneider. He had originally been given seven days from the auction's close to work out the deal.

Schneider has since filed a "failure to pay" complaint with eBay and is currently meeting with attorneys to discuss "some sort of legal action."

A rep for Schneider tells TMZ, "John is looking into his options. We cannot calculate the point where legitimate bidders would have topped out if it were not for fraudulent bidding, but it seems to have been in the range of $5 million."

As for your shot at the General Lee, there's hope. The good thing to come out of this, says our source, is that auction houses across the country have contacted John for a chance to put the car up on blocks.

Coo coo coo!



Tags: Dukes of Hazzard, DukesOfHazzard, General Lee, GeneralLee

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16. If John thought he was going to get $10,000,000.00 for that piece of crap car..then he has done too many drugs and needs a reality check...Bet for 5 minutes he was on cloud nine, until a rainstorm came and told him this was all BS

Posted at 6:30PM on May 9th 2007 by Marc

17. i thought that was high,who in there right mind would pay 10 million dollars for car

Posted at 6:30PM on May 9th 2007 by stupid car

18. I love the Dukes of hazzard and the General Lee is AWESOME. Having 10 million slip thru your fingers has got to be a hard hit to the ego....but everyone reading the articles knew it was gonna turn out to be phony! He said hisself that he thought it would sell for approx. 2 or 3 million....why threaten a lawsuit? Just offer a second chance bid to the other people who placed bids.

Posted at 6:33PM on May 9th 2007 by mommy2two

19. I know 1 negative feedback, but this whole transaction has become a "story" ad has lots of press and I mean in the sense of the ebay crowd, maybe it would be very bad for his selling business being the guy who duped the dukes of hazzard guy..

Posted at 6:36PM on May 9th 2007 by princess the ruler

20. Looks like Uncle Jesse,done went and molested john..For him to believe 10 mil.

Posted at 6:56PM on May 9th 2007 by kyle ryans

21. For him to be looking into legal action is ridiculous. This little scenario just earned him more media coverage than he could have hoped for. Has anyone thought of that angle? Have a mock auction the first time and get the media to cover the 'outrage' over the bogus bid and then turn around and have another auction that EVERYONE is aware of this time. hmmmm.... crazy like a fox

Posted at 6:48PM on May 9th 2007 by Shaka

22. oh thanks e/////////.... you're right it is 119 (what the hell was I looking at friday???) but still as you see, people are purposely placing fake bids just to leave him angry feedback

http://myworld.ebay.com/fishbashr1/

Posted at 6:51PM on May 9th 2007 by princess the ruler

23. get real, replica or not that car is "worth" whatever you can get for it. more power to you ,john

Posted at 7:03PM on May 9th 2007 by dwight howe

24. HONESTLY,JUST LYNCH THIS PIECE OF SHIT! HOPE HE GETS COLON CANCER!

Posted at 7:39PM on May 9th 2007 by LYNCH THE SOB FAKE BIDDER!

25. Hmmm...

It's MY understanding that bids on Ebay motors and on Ebay real estate are non binding - but depend on what comes of a face to face meeting, and inspection of the "item" in question where the final deal is sealed...

You also have to wonder if the bidder's account was hacked... Hey... It happened to us!

I wonder if this was ever anything but a publicity stunt in the first place...

And placing fake bids does not allow anyone to leave feedback. Feedback is limited to the seller and the buyer, period...

Does anyone have the url to this auction?

;0))

PK

Posted at 8:15PM on May 9th 2007 by anon

26. First of all, anyone who knows ebay know the $10mil bid was bogus, the seller will get his final value fees refunded, and he has no legal course of action against the bogus bidder. But it sounds good! So, John, get over it, re-list it and make it an auction where the buyer must be pre-approved BEFORE they can bid and save yourself some aggravation. Most of us eBay power sellers did get a good laugh at your expense though, John. Put a reserve on it and let the bidding begin! Remember...serious bidders DO like to bid. That's the fun of it. Better luck on your 2nd go round.

Posted at 8:31PM on May 9th 2007 by Miss Mary

27. John is delusional if he thinks it will bring close to 2 or 3 million..

Posted at 9:31PM on May 9th 2007 by bo-n- luke

28. I KNEW IT!!!!!

All you had to do to see it coming was to look up his eBay username and check out his buying/selling history and his "get to know me" discription.

He had an eBay history of less than 130-items (bought or sold), and he bought and sold $5 & $10.00 POCKET KNIVES!!!

That's it!!!

Fishbashr1 is his ebay username, and here is a hyperlink to his ebay feedback / ebay history INCLUDING the negative feedback that has now been entered for the false bidding on the car.

Check it out by simply copying and pasting into your 'go to address bar:
http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=fishbashr1&ftab=AllFeedback

Thank you...

Posted at 10:32PM on May 9th 2007 by sandman

29. This is getting out of hand on Ebay. When people buy stuff and DON'T PAY! This practice should be stopped by EBAY! They condone this practice. They know this goes on and they do nothing to stop these DEADBEATS, Especially NEW BIDDERS! Tired of Deadbeats!

Posted at 11:25PM on May 9th 2007 by Too many bad bidders

30. That car is not worth a thing to me!!!! In my opinion, I find it sad that anyone would try to make so much off a car just because it was on a t.v. show. Honestly, I would not want the car myself. it is to gawdy. I bet it is a gas hog too. My advice, leave the guy some negative feedback and let it go. no big deal!!!!

Posted at 11:52PM on May 9th 2007 by who cares

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