I had to give the winning bidder a chance. He came through in fine fashion. Turned out he was a new member to ebay and had an experienced friend guiding him through the process. The payment was made in full via paypal and he will be picking up the grill next week. Not too bad I guess considering the snappy guy told me that Brinkmann valued the grill at $1500 and that Snapon considers it at $1800 markup due to looking like a tool box. As I look at it I have to keep reminding myself that I really don't need it but, I will never purchase a grill this nice for myself and am giving up my only chance at ever having what truly would be the biggest, baddest grill by most anyones standards. I console myself by comparing it to women...had some fine ones but it's all easy come-easy go. Got a suprise message from Garage Journal tonight too wishing me a happy birthday 9-9-73.
