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What is it with people selling cars?

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Originally posted by: CrackRabbit
I went and looked at an 89 Volvo 240 today, good clean car, exactly what I was looking for.
KBB value is about $1200 guy wanted $3500 for it. After giving him the :shocked: look he said he would take $3000 for it :roll:.
WTF is with people thinking that their car is the only driveable car for sale on the entire friggin planet?
I can understand a person wanting to get a fair amount of money for their car, but double what its worth? Fagettaboutit.
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wow i just sold a '88 240 sedan for 800$ in great condition, 1 owner 120k miles
 
It goes the same way with buyers, though. I'm selling my Olds Aurora, which is valued at ~$2200. I get offers almost daily for $$750 - $1000.
 
Originally posted by: Mr N8
It goes the same way with buyers, though. I'm selling my Olds Aurora, which is valued at ~$2200. I get offers almost daily for $$750 - $1000.
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I'm selling our MINI and I keep getting calls with people saying that they don't want to pay that close to retail, well I'm sorry but I'm asking under blue book, not much more I can do.
 
Its because people don't want to accept the fact that something they spent good money for depreciated so much. You see it with cars, you see it junk like old furniture and mattresses and I see it most of all with computer parts like another guy mentioned. Its really bad with computer parts because they depreciate SO fast...yet even people who know about them think they can get most of what they paid for it back.

All the time:

9800pro $140 shipped!!! (probably paid $180 for it)

When a 9800pro can be had for $130, or even less with a hot deal.

2x512mb 1 gig of ram $100 shipped!

etc, etc.

Or they'll price it for exactly what newegg has them for new...why would I buy a used part from some guy I don't know when I could get a new one for the same price from a well known company? I don't know, but some body usually buys it so I guess I can't blame them.

My friend sees a bango for sale, offers the lady $100 for it. She says no, she paid $250 for it and its hardly used so she wants $200 firm. Banjo rots in the newspaper because lets face it...there's very little market for a used banjo. Most people don't want one at any price, and my friend wanted a cheap one mostly as a gag.
 
The frustration continues, so today I find a new listing for a 91 Honda Accord Wagon, 129k miles $1250. Call the owner up and ask a few questions about it.
Says that its in good shape, a/c blows cold and drives great. So wheeeee I take off to the other farking side of Houston.
I get there and the driver side window is off track and leaning out at an angle, kind of brushed it aside thinking it could be fixed later. The key doesnt work in either door start to wonder a bit..., but i can reach in and unlock it through the window.
Get in, its filthy and smells strongly of smoke. I am generaly unhappy at this point.
Try and start it up, doesnt start... Try 5 more times, finaly catches and then promptly dies. Try one more time, get it running after giving it a bit of gas.
I pop the hood, and check the oil dirty, looks like it hasnt been changed in quite a while. Check the transmission fluid, brown and burnt.
By this time I'm just pissed and hand the guy his keys and take off.
Thanks for wasting 2 hours of my time and a quarter tank of gas on your sh!itmobile buddy. :|
 
Originally posted by: PingSpike
Its because people don't want to accept the fact that something they spent good money for depreciated so much. You see it with cars, you see it junk like old furniture and mattresses and I see it most of all with computer parts like another guy mentioned. Its really bad with computer parts because they depreciate SO fast...yet even people who know about them think they can get most of what they paid for it back.

All the time:

9800pro $140 shipped!!! (probably paid $180 for it)

When a 9800pro can be had for $130, or even less with a hot deal.

2x512mb 1 gig of ram $100 shipped!

etc, etc.

Or they'll price it for exactly what newegg has them for new...why would I buy a used part from some guy I don't know when I could get a new one for the same price from a well known company? I don't know, but some body usually buys it so I guess I can't blame them.

My friend sees a bango for sale, offers the lady $100 for it. She says no, she paid $250 for it and its hardly used so she wants $200 firm. Banjo rots in the newspaper because lets face it...there's very little market for a used banjo. Most people don't want one at any price, and my friend wanted a cheap one mostly as a gag.
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Thanks for stating the obvious. I think most get the PC parts deal here.

My Apple //e in 1986 was about $3k loaded, the PS2 model 80 back in 1987 was $25k loaded with 14" color XGA monitor even...within a few years the apple was an easy loss weighed against what I learned from it, but the IBM took the beating....like 90%+ depreciation. Hey it was a banging 386/20 with 2MB (based on 640K x 3) memory (mine had 8MB and later XGA/2 then ATI GUP)! Fortunately, my dad bought the Apple new, I bought the IBM used 😉 later on (and then went to a Model 90 with a 486/50DX @ 150Mhz and then the AMD 586 chip, but then again I ran the PS/2 FAQ for almost 5 years I think🙂)...that was great under my first P133 in the mid 90's, then the 300A, then the PIII 850E, then a Cel 1.1, then a PIII-S 1.4, then my a64 3200+.

I actually profitted on my PIII-S chip and motherboard though...the whole reason I sold, it is a great platform for webservers (and non-gaming PC's) and many are out there trying to buy spares rather than risk hardware upgrades and problems for nothing gained.

 
Originally posted by: CrackRabbit
The frustration continues, so today I find a new listing for a 91 Honda Accord Wagon, 129k miles $1250. Call the owner up and ask a few questions about it.
Says that its in good shape, a/c blows cold and drives great. So wheeeee I take off to the other farking side of Houston.
I get there and the driver side window is off track and leaning out at an angle, kind of brushed it aside thinking it could be fixed later. The key doesnt work in either door start to wonder a bit..., but i can reach in and unlock it through the window.
Get in, its filthy and smells strongly of smoke. I am generaly unhappy at this point.
Try and start it up, doesnt start... Try 5 more times, finaly catches and then promptly dies. Try one more time, get it running after giving it a bit of gas.
I pop the hood, and check the oil dirty, looks like it hasnt been changed in quite a while. Check the transmission fluid, brown and burnt.
By this time I'm just pissed and hand the guy his keys and take off.
Thanks for wasting 2 hours of my time and a quarter tank of gas on your sh!itmobile buddy. :|
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If you are looking for cars that cheap, it doesn't pay to travel for them.

I have had 'mint' cars at 2x Kelly Blue Book (KBB) value turn up 'Well they are mint for the normal use of a X year old car' once I get there they aren't worth 1/2 KBB, yet alone usable...multi colored body panels aren't normal use, missing glass with cellophane over a window (not in the 10+ pics posted and being told there is nothing wrong with the car), nor coming to pick up my current car to be told it was just detailed and to find it dirty, no battery hold down, white dog hair embedded all over the interior...still shopping for a $15k car and buying at $8800 made me accepting of this. I took a train there (3 hours)...he had a great car for the price though, at my budget though not acceptable.

To me mint = mint. To all you scamming car / electronics / etc sellers...mint is perfect, age has nothing to do with 'mint'. I come to buy your item and it's all scratched up, dented, chipped, etc....despite it being 5, 10, 20 years old, that is not mint. Good condition = something old but not beat. Most mint I have encountered is less than average I encountered. More often than not I am going average.

All my cars I have sold have been mint when I said mint. Most bought on first look and were estatic. There have been a few beaters I owned though that I just had towed away/fire sold.

 
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