Have you guys noticed over the years

[MXZ]

Seems like every other ad on EBAY for '67-69 Camaro parts or cars has either the word COPO,YENKO,L-88,RARE attached to it, when alot of the parts/cars aren't even close. I have never seen so many clones in all my years of looking. Really sad.

Wish this GM licensing stuff was never made available also. A lot of fraud out there and getting very hard to tell what is the real deal.

Comments?

[firstgenaddict]

All you have to do is report it to ebay as mis represented advertising. My father in law sells alot of stuff on ebay and he got reported for it and ebay threatened to pull his auctions.

[Tommy]

Some of it is just funny if you think about it. A listing for A headlight or ashtray and it has Copo motion yenko in the desription. I don't get too wound up over it myself, I have old Motion badges on A Nova I will probably never finish... On A similiar note, does anybody remember the old JC Whitney catalogs that described every single thing as "High Performance" or "heavy duty" even when it was just an old window sill cup holder or tire valve stem or something like that.

Tommy http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif

[MXZ]

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Some of it is just funny if you think about it. A listing for A headlight or ashtray and it has Copo motion yenko in the desription. I don't get too wound up over it myself, I have old Motion badges on A Nova I will probably never finish... On A similiar note, does anybody remember the old JC Whitney catalogs that described every single thing as "High Performance" or "heavy duty" even when it was just an old window sill cup holder or tire valve stem or something like that.

Tommy http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif

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Seems more and more people are finding out just how valuable these "names" are. I guess they figure they can bring more money by listing it as a COPO,YENKO,MOTION ect..

It is funny, but not the unsuspecting layman. I remember getting those JC catalogs... Tire chains are a hotrod item? http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

[Jeff H]

It does make it a bigger pita to search for stuff. And then when you look at the auction it has nothing to do with your search! With the nice weather now it makes it real hard to sit at the computer and look through auctions when you could be out fishing, golfing, biking, cruising in the car.

[mssl72]

One thing that helps thin out the undesirable stuff is to change the search criteria. Like if you want to search "427" and didn't want any Ford 427 related stuff to pop up you would type the search like this (put 1 space between the thing you're searching for and the "-"):

427 -(ford)

It'll search 427 and eliminate anything with the word ford. If you want to add more things to eliminate just add the words in with only a comma in between them (no spaces between words). The searches ignore capital letters so don't bother typing them.

427 -(ford,boating,volvo,pontiac)

You can put in all kinds of words or even numbers (phone numbers, email adresses) that are unique to some sellers. That will eliminate all the auctions of a certain seller, like guys with aftermarket spark plug wires, weatherstripping and chrome timing chain covers. As long as the word is in the description or the title it'll work. Sometimes you can't get rid of everthing, but you can sure thin out some of the junk. I emailed ebay and asked if they can modify the searches so we can eliminate certain sellers by just putting in their ebay ID. That was about a year ago and they just said thanks for contacting us. Anyway try it and I think it'll help.

[Stefano]

Good info!

[nuch_ss396]

Just an observation here:

I'm not condoning the use of these monikers, but I would
have to expect that any "real" COPO, YENKO, etc. owner
would/should know the differences when looking for parts. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif

Yes, it is a PITA when I search for these items, but as was
previously mentioned, it's just the price of doing business
on eBay.

Steve

[MXZ]

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Just an observation here:

I'm not condoning the use of these monikers, but I would
have to expect that any "real" COPO, YENKO, etc. owner
would/should know the differences when looking for parts. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif

Yes, it is a PITA when I search for these items, but as was
previously mentioned, it's just the price of doing business
on eBay.

Steve

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I agree that someone with enough knowlege should know what they are looking at.

My point was that when ebay items are listed there always seems to be one of these monikers attached, weather it is a true COPO or Yenko part or not. They are just using these names to charge the max. amount.