Oh yeah, Parting cars out is a *lot* of work, so those guys are working for their money...
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/97F741C5-FC04-4361-BC47-779A21725BAF%40yahoo.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.