I agree about the time limit; it is short. It could be that he wants to live to see the end of the auctions.....

What I'd like to know is, doesn't Empeg deny warranty transfers?

"Inside the riocar manual it says the warranty is not transferable from one user to another." yn0t_

That means you'd need the original owner to do the talking. I woudn't trust a guy as far away as Israel to stick around if I had problems.....