I did this about 15 years ago with sciroccos. I bought them cheap and parted out the interiors/power trains. Sold the stuff via the old scirocco mailing list.
I generally sold things for half the price of junkyards. Some thing I'd ask for offers one with the proviso that the buyer had to make it worth my effort to package and ship it. So I'd find out how much it cost at a junkyard then offer half of that. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 18, 2016, at 8:38 AM, Larry Velez <la...@sinu.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Seems like the kids these days use an entrepreneurial technique to raise > money for their cars which is rather clever. They will buy cars that are in > bad shape by bidding quickly on them and taking the risk on their quality. > They don’t get attached to them and if they found a diamond in the rough they > keep it for a while and if it is a basketcase, they part it out. They don’t > seem to sell the whole broken car at a low price but instead greatly increase > their return on investment by parting the car out and putting some sweat > equity into it. They are in some ways disrupting the junkyard business using > social networks to spread the word super fast. > > I am wondering if any of you are participating in these partouts. Seems > like each time I try to participate they never give me a price asking for an > offer – a clever way to sometimes get offered more money for parts and to > quickly gauge interest. The Internet is making a whole generation into > wanttrepeneurs with some success. > > I just connected with someone who has the exact matching car to my daily > driver (99.5 Audi ‘B5 A4’) and I need lots of parts from that car. They > asked me to make an offer on what I want and I am not sure how to respond. > Do I just offer a few hundred for permission to take everything I need > (mostly small stuff) or do I make an inventory and make offers for each > little part. > > Any advice on how to approach the negotiation? I hate negotiating and prefer > transparent pricing on everything but with old cars you pay a significant > premium for new parts and could save hundreds by getting used parts > especially things like same color fenders in good condition. > > Thoughts/advice? > > <image001.jpg> > > > -Larry > 91 GTI 16V > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MK2-16v" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to mk2-16v+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to mk2-16v@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mk2-16v. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mk2-16v/7b17939b9de14f86b8d03911ac99667f%40MBX082-E1-VA-2.EXCH082.SERVERPOD.NET. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MK2-16v" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mk2-16v+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mk2-16v@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mk2-16v. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mk2-16v/667C4027-E576-4E17-A4AD-BB526142F200%40yahoo.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
