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>
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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
>>
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