Originally Posted by MisterV View Post
He claims he sold it to a seemingly mysterious Israeli.

Apparently there's a real shortage of Newells in the Holy Land.
Yeah, sight unseen, the guy wired half a million.

Now that said, in 2009, I was planning to relocate to Las Vegas. I didn't have a set time. So I would periodically be checking real estate sites, looking for a bargain on a condo close to the strip. It was just after the real estate crash, so there were lots of foreclosures and short sales. Several of the sites had live auctions. I bid on a property in a highrise, just off the strip. I made a rather low bid, 87 grand, a fraction of which these properties went for when they sold as new just 3 years earlier, which was the 300k range. To my surprise my bid held up throughout the auction, meaning I had bought a property, sight unseen, although there had been a virtual showing and I knew the building and area. Within a month, I was living in Las Vegas. All my friends thought I was crazy buying a condo, sight unseen, but it worked out for me.

Now despite my experience, I can't imagine a buyer purchasing a 500k RV without seeing it. If nothing else you would want to check out the engine and/or have a mechanic check out the engine. Plus the floors could be rotted out under the carpet, which pictures wouldn't show. Of course Singer had no pictures of interior in his ad. Someone purchasing that RV in 1 day, sight unseen, and wiring the money, sight unseen, is a joke and everyone knows it.