For private sales, that might work. Even professional dealers who just want to move product. This car has a break even point and has been stored for a few years, along with a bunch of other iron in the parking lot. Pretty surprising the number of people who think they can get a repair for cheap, then walk away from their cars. Had I been expecting the low ballers, I would have priced the car far higher, so that the half price trick would get the car gone at the proper price.
clay On Mar 23, 2016, at 9:08 AM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes wrote: >> >> > > > However, sellers will very often take a whole lot less than the asking price. > My son works with a fellow who has purchased a couple of vehicles in the past > year in that manner. > He calls the seller up and offers a fraction of the asking price and buys the > vehicle. > A lot of people really don't want the hassle of selling and if they don't get > an immediate offer of what they asked, will take the first offer they get. > > I also had a client a few years back who was sort of a backyard used car > dealer. He had a licence etc but no real store front shop. He would go around > on weekends with a pocket full of cash and buy cars from private sellers. He > never paid more than about half of what the asking price was. He would often > just suggest to the seller that they were unlikely to get any better offers > and advise he was prepared to pay cash immediately and would get the vehicle > for his price. > Sellers have often replaced the car already and don't have sufficient parking > and do not wish to continue to pay licence and insurance etc. > > RB _______________________________________ http://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
