This reminds me of the pawn shop in Las Vegas that has the show. People bring stuff in there that the owners (or their "experts") place stupid values on it.
I dealt in pinball machines for many years, so I was interested in watching this particular episode. Some guy brought in an old pinball machine that they took to an "expert" who rebuilt it and claimed it was now worth about 3X what the actual market value was. There was a lot of chatter in the pinball community over it, and the so called expert really got taken to the woodshed over it and lost a lot of credibility as a result. While he would never admit it, many of us thought there might very well have been some collusion in an effort to make the show more "exciting". This sort of behavior does two things: It causes the general public to have unrealistic expectations of value for something; and, it drives prices up in the market for much the same reason. Dan On Nov 7, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Dimitri Seretakis <dsereta...@yahoo.com> wrote: > These events only go to show that low mileage, clean original W123s are > gaining ground. > > > > ________________________________ > From: Bob Rentfro <azbob...@gmail.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 2:30 PM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] 240D on Chasing Classic Cars > > Chip is like BFF with Wayne. > > Bob R > On Nov 7, 2012 11:53 AM, "Alex Chamberlain" <apchamberl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Anybody else watch the show "Chasing Classic Cars" on Velocity Channel? >> The host buys and sells a huge variety of interesting iron, mostly older >> Ferraris and Porsches but lots of other stuff too. The last episode I saw, >> he bought a showroom-condition W123 240D with 20K mi on the clock for >> $25,000--presumably thinking he could flip it for significantly more. >> >> Alex >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
