YACT: Selling my car...

[Red]

seventh post, geez fix this.

 

[Red]

8.... good.

 

[Red]

9 posts, good.

 

[Turkish]

ok man i got it . geezus dont be angry. you didn't have to post 8 times to make a point

 

[Vic]

#1 - Suggest to her that she could have a friend or family member help her in picking up the car and that that would probably be safest under any circumstances. Tell her that there is another interested buyer so, if she wants the car that her husband told her to get (hint at that, don't say it exactly), you suggest she move quickly.

#2 - He's way over the top, but that is common for a young kid. He's making a big decision (for him) most likely and is afraid to be burned. The other issues with the young ones is that they often think they have a right to make other people bend over backwards for them. This must be nipped in the bud immediately because all they will do is waste your time. Inform him that, if he is concerned about the mechanical condition of the vehicle, you will gladly take it to the mechanic of his choice to be inspected at his cost, but that you will not provide further pictures or information. No if's, and's, or butt's there. He'll probably back out at that time, don't worry about it.

edit: oh yeah, car buyers ALWAYS pick up the car themselves or pay for delivery. Sellers NEVER meet them halfway or deliver to them unless they have already made either a substantial cash deposit (or the check cleared the bank) or they have paid in full. It is okay to meet partway for a test drive, but generally the location should be a little closer to the seller than the buyer.

 

[alkemyst]

I just listed my Saturn in autotrader.

I can tell you from past experience the cheaper the car the more headaches the buyers will cause you. I usually organize the ad and pics for my friends and detail it up.

You will get people just like that guy (closeup of the plastic instrument glass, close up of the door handles, pics under the seat, pics of the brakes,)....too much work and most of the time the picture is worthless anyway on a mechanical item (if you were scamming you'd just clean it up nice and pretty anyway or photoshop out a scratch here or there).....better even are the guys that ask if you can do things with the car while they are on the phone or videotape things and mail them it.

I always have found these people make the worst buyers too...you will be constantly called for the next several years whenever something goes wrong . I had helped a friend sell a $250 car and the guy kept calling him every week with problems that were listed as problems, acting like he got ripped off. Luckily my friend was a foreign exchange student and ended up leaving the country. That guy was crazy (he kept asking why should he be responsible for a $500 repair on a car that cost only $250, I relate it to teh same types of idiots that don't understand shipping has nothing to do with the item cost).

Anyways if you get a feel the buyer is problematic I would just kill the deal with them.

 

[Red]

Originally posted by: alkemyst
I just listed my Saturn in autotrader.

I can tell you from past experience the cheaper the car the more headaches the buyers will cause you. I usually organize the ad and pics for my friends and detail it up.

You will get people just like that guy (closeup of the plastic instrument glass, close up of the door handles, pics under the seat, pics of the brakes,)....too much work and most of the time the picture is worthless anyway on a mechanical item (if you were scamming you'd just clean it up nice and pretty anyway or photoshop out a scratch here or there).....better even are the guys that ask if you can do things with the car while they are on the phone or videotape things and mail them it.

I always have found these people make the worst buyers too...you will be constantly called for the next several years whenever something goes wrong . I had helped a friend sell a $250 car and the guy kept calling him every week with problems that were listed as problems, acting like he got ripped off. Luckily my friend was a foreign exchange student and ended up leaving the country. That guy was crazy (he kept asking why should he be responsible for a $500 repair on a car that cost only $250, I relate it to teh same types of idiots that don't understand shipping has nothing to do with the item cost).

Anyways if you get a feel the buyer is problematic I would just kill the deal with them.

Well, Alk, good advice. And see, that is really what the heart of it is... the guy from Iraq saw like 5 pics and wanted to know if it ran pretty good, I said yes and he said deal... he said he understood it's one of Toyotas best cars ever and is a helicopter mechanic for the Army so he wasn't worried about stuff breaking down over time. He was really nice in his e-mails and his wife is super nice on the phone, and I would expect to never hear from them again after the car is sold, it's just his wife is really causing a delay in the deal because she is worried about the 5-speed.

The second guy is a total reverse. When he calls me he is just like "Hey, this is so and so about the Celica. Send me a picture of the brakes. Send me this. Send me that. Why this, why that." And the beef of what worries me is what happens when the car has an oil leak in 2 weeks and he starts calling me.

 

[Vic]

It's a well-known fact among salespeople that their smallest commission deal is their biggest headache.

 

[alkemyst]

funny non-car story, but something cheap I sold.

I sold a leather pager cover to a rich and apparently retarded kid (well 20 years old) on ebay.

I got a phone call every week about it until I finally told him I appreciated his happiness but I can't afford to use my cell minutes up This had been going on like 3 months.

I felt bad for him, he had asked me a million questions before he bought the $0.50 item....at first I thought he was a troll....but he was indeed just not so good in the head.

 

[Budmantom]

Originally posted by: alkemyst
funny non-car story, but something cheap I sold.

I sold a leather pager cover to a rich and apparently retarded kid (well 20 years old) on ebay.

I got a phone call every week about it until I finally told him I appreciated his happiness but I can't afford to use my cell minutes up This had been going on like 3 months.

I felt bad for him, he had asked me a million questions before he bought the $0.50 item....at first I thought he was a troll....but he was indeed just not so good in the head.

lol

 

[alkemyst]

hheh the sentence above should have read: I sold a leather pager cover to a rich and apparently retarded kid (well 20 years old and a high school Junior) on ebay.

He also sent me pics which I lost in a HD crash of him wearing the pager cover, the pager in his car, etc....my ex wife and I at the time really felt bad for the guy as I am sure many people were cruel to him.

I can be cruel, however, never to someone that can't help themselves.