I agree that attacks aren't necessary and if Eric had stayed cool, it'd have stayed in For Sale and could have been cleaned up. To be blunt when you start an ad with a tone of "if you think this is too expensive, you're stupid", well you get what you get.
I'm pretty set on my belief that if you want to charge a premium price for a build, it should have basic functionality present. I'd consider the ability to turn in a parking lot and have a functional HVAC system to be pretty basic things. Cruise control is, on these swaps, a pretty rare thing to have functional, but P/S has been as basic swap item for over a decade, and thanks to you (Lane) A/C is pretty well understood as well. But to my point, if cars that have A/C, P/S and cruise were selling for 25-30k most of the time, and REALLY nice ones sold for 35-40k, and you asked 45k for one that didn't have it, yeah, I'd expect people to note that it is missing.
I guess I just don't feel like this is a "coin holder doesn't have a working internal light" kind of thing. This is a "I can't easily defog my windows or turn around in a parking lot" issue. If I spent 70k on a 911 Turbo, I'd damn well expect A/C and P/S to work, that's the difference in a premium priced car, and I guess that's my whole point. This car was worth more in pieces than as a whole.
edit: In fairness to my Porsche example, maybe this is like a Porsche where they charge you more to take things out. I hadn't considered that business model. Want no carpet? That's 5k, no radio? 3k extra!

edit 2: Also, at 50k, it hit about the price that I think a lot of people expected, so calling out 70k as insane... was... well, correct. I might be an asshole, but I was a correct asshole. Also his wheels were ugly.
