On the other hand they're not wasting your time crawling all over the car before lowballing you... -Curt
From: clay via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: clay <redgh...@comcast.net> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 6:43 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Low Ball Larry Not my car. I am just fronting for the shop that needs to break even. The quality of the car is high enough that being able to hit that mark is reasonable. No crack. I have driven the car and keep an eye on the market, pester sellers, so I know the pulse of the local market. I discount the desired values club members feel their cars are worth. Sale price does depend upon what buyers will pay. I do not have to take the first low ball offer from a guy who has never seen the car. Nor the subsequent low ball offers. It is a bit rude to make low ball offers one a first contact by email. At least they could look at the car. That would show greater interest than a blind email response to a listing. clay On Mar 23, 2016, at 3:29 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote: > Clay, the selling price of the car is determined by the market, not how much > money the shop has spent fixing it. > > Your justifications remind me of someone who thinks the car value is tied to > the cost of an (expensive) restoration or modification or whatever; people on > this list ridicule those sellers as crack smokers. > > Don't be a crack smoker. > > -- > Max Dillon > Charleston SC > '87 300TD > '95 E300 > > On March 23, 2016 5:38:47 PM EDT, clay via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: >> 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 > _______________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________ 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 _______________________________________ 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