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Re: GTI For Sale
I always advertise a car for at least a couple hundred over what I plan
to get for it. That way you have room to negotiate and the dude buying
the car feels like he got a better deal making everyone happy. :-)
People will usually try to negotiate from your asking price to give them
a little piece of mind. I actually got lucky one time with a 91 Jetta
that I needed 4700 from it. I put it in the paper for 5600. The guy was
buying it for his daughter and didn't even try to get me down on the
price at all!
But anyway, just a little advice that I've learned after selling about
11 of my previous cars.
-Mike
88 Scirocco 16V
87 Cabbie
Mark Madison wrote:
>
> Then there are those OTHER people I can't stand, the one's that try to talk
> you down and down and down. A few months ago I sold an 87 Golf GT with
> 39,000 miles on it. The bad thing about it was that it had a Salvage title
> (theft recovery). so I posted the car for 1000.00. This is what it had!
> brand new headlights, three blade grille, tires, waterpump, timing belt, cv
> joints, windshield, plugs, wires, cap, rotor, alternator.. not to mention
> the brand new set of big bumpers I put on there. ARGH!
>
> This guy was like trying to talk me down. Damn F.O.B. (fresh of the boat)
> Asian. (Not that I have anything against Asians, my girlfriend is Chinese..
> well american.. but she looks chinese) But this guy, you know the type kept
> complaining about minor quirks with the car like. The A/C doesn't work..
> WELL I DIDNT ADVERTISE IT AS HAVING A/C! The car needed new front seats as
> well.. BIG DEAL. I told him that I was already taking a loss on the car but
> was willing to part with it for $1000.00 NO LESS. He kept trying.. after
> about an hour of this guy walking around and kicking the tires, I finally
> got mad and asked him to leave. He said he would call me back and let me
> know what his decision was.... NO CALL. The car had ~2000.00 of new parts
> on it.. it ran beautifully, looked great.. but had a few little things
> wrong with it.
> DO YOU ALL THINK 1000.00 WAS a bad price?
>
> so I got a call from a guy that was interested in the car.. he drove down
> from seattle after seeing the car on the 16v gti webpage... came down...
> drove the car and I sold it to him for $900.00 because he knew what he was
> looking at. No hassles.. just the regular questions.. How much do you
> need to know that you gotta ask 1 hours worth of questions?!?!
>
> yah, I know the feeling. I ask lots of questions.. but if the ad says firm,
> I try once to talk em down... or throw the idea out there.. but if they say
> no.. then I guess its NO!
>
> Mark Madison
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jason <Jason.r@worldnet.att.net>
> To: <kleckner_m@fis-usa.com>; Scirocco List <scirocco-L@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 1999 8:54 AM
> Subject: Re: GTI For Sale
>
> >> The guy comes outside, and starts talking about his car. He has an
> accent,
> >> reminding me of the "Soup Nazi" from Seinfeld. I popped the hood, and to
> >> my surprise, the car is a normal 8v GTI!!! The guy hands me the key, and
> I
> >> ask him about the paper saying that the car is a 16v. "But it is 16v!"
> he
> >> says. I show him under the hood. He says "It is GTI, 16 valve! You
> drive
> >> it, and you will see that it is a 16v." "Not all GTI's were 16v" I
> >> explain. He then gets out the owners manual and tries to show me that it
> >> is a 16v. "I'm sorry, not interested!" I tell him, and give him back
> the
> >> key. Damn! That car wasn't even worth half what he was asking. And
> >> definately not what I was looking for.
> >>
> >> Man I hate assholes like that!
> >
> >Reminds me of the time I went to look at a rabbit with a friend, he needed
> a cheap car to get him by while he was searching for the
> >perfect corrado. After driving out to the middle of nowhere this loser
> tried to sell us a rusted out beat to shit rabbit for $950,
> >I've seen them in far better shape for less than half that. This guy
> wouldn't stop arguing about what a good deal it was. This
> >moron (yuppie) charged a bunch of parts on his credit card he though the
> car needed because of this, the car went from a $100 rust
> >bucket to a $950 gem, some people.. Reminds me of this other guy who sells
> vw's in lake Steven's, WA, he has a habit of un hooking
> >vacuum hoses and spray painting everything under the hood black. I looked
> at one car that had an air filter sitting on the carb,
> >and the exhaust turned the ground black. Watch out for these people, I've
> found even if the have a decent deal they usually loose
> >the title, or jerk you around or are up to something.. Just not worth the
> headache if you ask me, there are to many honest cool
> >fellow vw er's out there, why deal with these people.. I do understand they
> often sound cool on the phone, I've just got in the
> >habit of asking several questions before I drive somewhere, and if I smell
> bullshit I just pack up and leave..
> >
> >Jason.
> >87 Scirocco 16v 2.0 Motronic.
> >
> >
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