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a lil craigslist laugh for ya

Guys; "to each his own"...

If the guy wants to ask 10,000 for it, let him do so without making fun of em on this forum bc I'm sure he's prolly a member here?

Here's a little story for those who laugh (which are prolly 16-23 years of age & have not fully matured yet) at this guys CL posting...

To start I'm 29 years old and have had 2 jobs since graduating HS in 98. 1st job I worked for an elevator company selling preventative maintenance. Started 1 month after graduating HS and within 3 months was making $40k a year and had a very nice company car with paid insurance, gas, maintenance, repairs, etc...
My 2nd job I started in 01 and am still currently working there. It was a "start up" company & we staff & place Engineers & Technical Professionals at mostly manufacturing & engineering services type companies. I sell our services via telephone & email & rarely see a client or candidate in person. To make it a little easier to understand, our 2 largest clients are Navistar/International Truck & Engine Company in Fort Wayne, IN and Cummins Engine Company in Columbus, IN. So my point of this is "I AM A TRUE SALESMAN" but I have had a passion for cars since I was in my early teens and my example is below...

6/6/08 I bought a 98 Subaru Impreza 2.5RS with 99k miles for $4,000. I put $500 in mostly maintenance/upgrades into her & on 1/9/09 sold the car after having it posted on CL for months for $7,000. In the months I had it posted I would get replies from younger immature kids who could not afford the car telling me in smart*** ways I was asking way too much & my cars a POS; I would read the emails, laugh & click delete. Six days after selling the RS, I bought an 01 Ford Explorer Sport Trac with 90k miles, from a dealer. It was a 1 owner with a folder of maintenance records and not 1 single dent, scratch, flaw, etc, not to mention it was loaded with every single option available in 01. The Ford dealer had it marked 6995 on the window. After driving it & checking it out for a night, came back the next day, told the internet salesman I want it & set $5,000 in hundred dollar bills on his desk and asked do we have a deal. He says hold on I have to check with my manager so I just asked him to bring his manager back with him. Once they were back in the office the manager said he'll do it for $5500, so I pulled out $300 more dollars & ended up buying her for $5300 which included sales tax (7% in IN) & drove her home with a 30 day paper plate. 2 days before the paper plate was to expire I sold the ST for $7500 and all I did was change the oil & replaced some bulbs.

Both of these vehicles I found AND sold on craigslist!!! That just goes to show you that there are people who will pay what you’re asking regardless of KBB value, etc as long as you have a clean & quality product.

Sorry to go off subject & the length of my reply but if it helps 1 person than I'm happy!!! If it offends anyone, I could care less!



MORAL of my reply is leave the guy alone & grow up!!!
 
greasemonkey1489 said:
Nuff said dude. The title and registration crap must be fun, especially when it takes up to 6 weeks to even get the title.. So how do you do that?
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Actually it differs from state to state. Don't have to register if you sell before the paper plate expires! And in IN if you have a title in hand, you drive to 1 certin BMV branch here in INDY and get the title transfered into your name it's called getting an "expidited title"; google it. It took me all of 15 minutes & $50 bucks! Been doing it for a couple years so let me know should you have anymore questions, concerns or smart*** comments. Hope that answered your questions?

I flip cars on the side if you can't tell from my post. And to answer your next question... no I don't need a dealers license unless I sell more than 18 per year, which I don't. Don't hate bro!
 
ukfan50 said:
Guys; "to each his own"...

If the guy wants to ask 10,000 for it, let him do so without making fun of em on this forum bc I'm sure he's prolly a member here?

Here's a little story for those who laugh (which are prolly 16-23 years of age & have not fully matured yet) at this guys CL posting...

To start I'm 29 years old and have had 2 jobs since graduating HS in 98. 1st job I worked for an elevator company selling preventative maintenance. Started 1 month after graduating HS and within 3 months was making $40k a year and had a very nice company car with paid insurance, gas, maintenance, repairs, etc...
My 2nd job I started in 01 and am still currently working there. It was a "start up" company & we staff & place Engineers & Technical Professionals at mostly manufacturing & engineering services type companies. I sell our services via telephone & email & rarely see a client or candidate in person. To make it a little easier to understand, our 2 largest clients are Navistar/International Truck & Engine Company in Fort Wayne, IN and Cummins Engine Company in Columbus, IN. So my point of this is "I AM A TRUE SALESMAN" but I have had a passion for cars since I was in my early teens and my example is below...

6/6/08 I bought a 98 Subaru Impreza 2.5RS with 99k miles for $4,000. I put $500 in mostly maintenance/upgrades into her & on 1/9/09 sold the car after having it posted on CL for months for $7,000. In the months I had it posted I would get replies from younger immature kids who could not afford the car telling me in smart*** ways I was asking way too much & my cars a POS; I would read the emails, laugh & click delete. Six days after selling the RS, I bought an 01 Ford Explorer Sport Trac with 90k miles, from a dealer. It was a 1 owner with a folder of maintenance records and not 1 single dent, scratch, flaw, etc, not to mention it was loaded with every single option available in 01. The Ford dealer had it marked 6995 on the window. After driving it & checking it out for a night, came back the next day, told the internet salesman I want it & set $5,000 in hundred dollar bills on his desk and asked do we have a deal. He says hold on I have to check with my manager so I just asked him to bring his manager back with him. Once they were back in the office the manager said he'll do it for $5500, so I pulled out $300 more dollars & ended up buying her for $5300 which included sales tax (7% in IN) & drove her home with a 30 day paper plate. 2 days before the paper plate was to expire I sold the ST for $7500 and all I did was change the oil & replaced some bulbs.

Both of these vehicles I found AND sold on craigslist!!! That just goes to show you that there are people who will pay what you’re asking regardless of KBB value, etc as long as you have a clean & quality product.

Sorry to go off subject & the length of my reply but if it helps 1 person than I'm happy!!! If it offends anyone, I could care less!



MORAL of my reply is leave the guy alone & grow up!!!
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people pay too much for cars all the time lol. You made money off the stupid people, is that the point you were trying to make? I also dont get where your age and maturity facts are coming from :nonono:
 
icysvt said:
people pay too much for cars all the time lol. You made money off the stupid people, is that the point you were trying to make? I also dont get where your age and maturity facts are coming from :nonono:
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icysvt said:
people pay too much for cars all the time lol. You made money off the stupid people, is that the point you were trying to make? I also dont get where your age and maturity facts are coming from
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People sure do! I didn't make $ off "stupid people", I made $ bc... A, I only buy cars that are rare, in perfect shape, 1 owner vehicles with maintenance records from new and B, I know a good deal when I see one & know how to negotiate unlike most people.

Point of my reply is there's always someone that will buy your car for the price your asking! Example is my CSVT & when I sell, I'll get $6,000 to $7,000 for it because I'm the second owner, it has a stack of maint records from new, and I've replaced over $1,000 of OEM parts (tires,struts,whole front end,ect,ect). Not to mention where I live there is no CSVT's at all, what so ever. Or I may decide to put it in the garage & add to the collection.

Lastley, age & maturity comes from 75% or more of the members on this forum I would bet are still kids, bc CSVT's are cars you can buy for a few grand and that's what kids can afford.
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ukfan50 said:


People sure do! I didn't make $ off "stupid people", I made $ bc... A, I only buy cars that are rare, in perfect shape, 1 owner vehicles with maintenance records from new and B, I know a good deal when I see one & know how to negotiate unlike most people.

Point of my reply is there's always someone that will buy your car for the price your asking! Example is my CSVT & when I sell, I'll get $6,000 to $7,000 for it because I'm the second owner, it has a stack of maint records from new, and I've replaced over $1,000 of OEM parts (tires,struts,whole front end,ect,ect). Not to mention where I live there is no CSVT's at all, what so ever. Or I may decide to put it in the garage & add to the collection.

Lastley, age & maturity comes from 75% or more of the members on this forum I would bet are still kids, bc CSVT's are cars you can buy for a few grand and that's what kids can afford.
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How many miles are on your car? Unless you have less than 50k on it I dont care how many records you have for it, you WILL NOT get someone to pay 6000 for it unless it is MINT along with low miles and maint. records. My car is extremly clean other than the paint, which could be easily dealt with, has 94k on it now which is decently low for a 98(that was built in early 97) If I put new paint on the car I wouldnt even try to get 6k for it and I have a 3l, 13"brakes, and a ton of upgraded suspension parts that suprass oem. When you show me documentation of you selling your car for that much then I will edit this post and put that I was wrong.
 
I agree with Icy, you wont get anywhere near $ 6 -7 grand for an SVT anymore. Prices for SVT's are dropping faster than Forest Griffin from an Anderson Silva punch. SVT's are very rare in Alberta and they still dont sell for much more than $4g. There's been a nice, one owner SVT, 50 k miles, im my area for $4500. Its been 3 months and it still hasn't sold.

You might get near 6k for a mint - low mileage SVT, but you better be prepared for a long wait.
 
icysvt said:
How many miles are on your car? Unless you have less than 50k on it I dont care how many records you have for it, you WILL NOT get someone to pay 6000 for it unless it is MINT along with low miles and maint. records. My car is extremly clean other than the paint, which could be easily dealt with, has 94k on it now which is decently low for a 98(that was built in early 97) If I put new paint on the car I wouldnt even try to get 6k for it and I have a 3l, 13"brakes, and a ton of upgraded suspension parts that suprass oem. When you show me documentation of you selling your car for that much then I will edit this post and put that I was wrong.
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:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:


Actually my CSVT is a MY2000, 1 owner, clean carfax (neither wrecks nor title issues, the original owner kept a folder for every single warranty, repair, & all the way down to light bulbs. Right now it has 59k miles and sits in the garage unless I drive it on a nice day. Interior & exterior are MINT and if I decide to sell it which I prolly won't because I love the car & always have loved the CSVT's, so I'll prolly just add to my collection & 10 years down the road sell it for much more than $6000-$7000 because it'll be all stock OEM, non ragged out & beat up on like most of the CSVT's I see on this forum.

To be honest, I entered the car in the "Mustang & All Ford show here in my area (Indianapolis, IN) beginning of June & was the only CSVT there. An older gentleman was asking me if it was 4sale & I told him no, but the next day he came back to me & offered me $5000 for the car bc there are NO CSVT's in Indy what so ever & he said he'd been looking for 1 for a year, but the "right one". So I am more than confident that I can sell it for $7000 and not a penny F'in less and I WON'T!!!

My daily driver/track car is a 04 WRX with 38k miles I purchased stock. Now it has a "TurboXS" turbo back exhaust along with a Cobb stage 2 access port. Living in snowy Indiana winters it makes for a great DD, not to mention its very fun in an empty, snow covered parking lot.:laugh:

So ICY, just leave people alone; just bc you have over 5k post does not make you a know it all nor a expert of what a car will sell for! If the guy on CL wants $6500 for his car, he'll get it for it, though it may take a year. Didn't your mother teach you "if you don't have anything nice to say; don't say anything at all?:confused::confused::confused:

By the way, I'm the guy who bought 1 E1 from you while outta town in Richmound, VA. Thanks for the wheel even though it's stained & won't come clean.
 
ukfan50 said:
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Actually my CSVT is a MY2000, 1 owner, clean carfax (neither wrecks nor title issues, the original owner kept a folder for every single warranty, repair, & all the way down to light bulbs. Right now it has 59k miles and sits in the garage unless I drive it on a nice day. Interior & exterior are MINT and if I decide to sell it which I prolly won't because I love the car & always have loved the CSVT's, so I'll prolly just add to my collection & 10 years down the road sell it for much more than $6000-$7000 because it'll be all stock OEM, non ragged out & beat up on like most of the CSVT's I see on this forum.

To be honest, I entered the car in the "Mustang & All Ford show here in my area (Indianapolis, IN) beginning of June & was the only CSVT there. An older gentleman was asking me if it was 4sale & I told him no, but the next day he came back to me & offered me $5000 for the car bc there are NO CSVT's in Indy what so ever & he said he'd been looking for 1 for a year, but the "right one". So I am more than confident that I can sell it for $7000 and not a penny F'in less and I WON'T!!!

My daily driver/track car is a 04 WRX with 38k miles I purchased stock. Now it has a "TurboXS" turbo back exhaust along with a Cobb stage 2 access port. Living in snowy Indiana winters it makes for a great DD, not to mention its very fun in an empty, snow covered parking lot.:laugh:

So ICY, just leave people alone; just bc you have over 5k post does not make you a know it all nor a expert of what a car will sell for! If the guy on CL wants $6500 for his car, he'll get it for it, though it may take a year. Didn't your mother teach you "if you don't have anything nice to say; don't say anything at all?:confused::confused::confused:

By the way, I'm the guy who bought 1 E1 from you while outta town in Richmound, VA. Thanks for the wheel even though it's stained & won't come clean.
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first off you want to come at me with that ing wheel comment? Screw you I have ALL of our emails to/from so dont even give me any like I didnt tell you everything there was to tell about that wheel not to mention tons of pictures.

Now its a 2k model thats a plus 59k on it isnt bad either. Your already getting offers of 5k for it from someone AT AN ALL FORD SHOW, That should give you a measure of value right there. I am guessing since your dead set on a pricke of 7k for yours that you gave around 5k. If you can sell for any more than 5k more power to you. It wont be me that buys it for sure cause there will be a better deal somewhere im sure, like what I paid for my current car.

Also your car isnt a 1 owner any longer since guess what you bought it used. That means your the 2nd owner. as far as your dd goes I dont give a if you drive a lambo daily and garage your svt lol mine stays covered in the driveway and I drive a damn smartcar daily so what?

Your telling me to leave people alone? All I did was say I found the ad funny in my original post, nothing more. Then later I simply stated the things that I found funny about the ad. You came flying in here all butt hurt over the fact that you have a car thats not worth near what you think it is and want to fly all over me about it:confused: I also dont know why your bringing up my post count but since you are look at my join date, add about 1.5 yrs to that nd that gets you the length of time I have spent with these cars. I dont claim to know it all, I have never once claimed anything of the sorts. I do however have a quite extensive knowledge of them and their value.
 
icysvt said:
first off you want to come at me with that ing wheel comment? Screw you I have ALL of our emails to/from so dont even give me any like I didnt tell you everything there was to tell about that wheel not to mention tons of pictures.

Now its a 2k model thats a plus 59k on it isnt bad either. Your already getting offers of 5k for it from someone AT AN ALL FORD SHOW, That should give you a measure of value right there. I am guessing since your dead set on a pricke of 7k for yours that you gave around 5k. If you can sell for any more than 5k more power to you. It wont be me that buys it for sure cause there will be a better deal somewhere im sure, like what I paid for my current car.

Also your car isnt a 1 owner any longer since guess what you bought it used. That means your the 2nd owner. as far as your dd goes I dont give a if you drive a lambo daily and garage your svt lol mine stays covered in the driveway and I drive a damn smartcar daily so what?

Your telling me to leave people alone? All I did was say I found the ad funny in my original post, nothing more. Then later I simply stated the things that I found funny about the ad. You came flying in here all butt hurt over the fact that you have a car thats not worth near what you think it is and want to fly all over me about it:confused: I also dont know why your bringing up my post count but since you are look at my join date, add about 1.5 yrs to that nd that gets you the length of time I have spent with these cars. I dont claim to know it all, I have never once claimed anything of the sorts. I do however have a quite extensive knowledge of them and their value.
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1st; the wheel I bought off you is stained & will/won't clean off in a spot the size of a half dollar, so it was not as described! I know bc I tried for hours with all sorts of differant cleaners. I also have all our emails too, pal. I paid you $25 extra to make sure the wheel was clean & not stained, but I got it stained anyway. And your real mature by telling me to "screw myself"? F off!

Your 27 but act like your 17 pal, grow the F up, don't tell me WTF I can sell my car for because if I decide to sell it, I will get whatever $ I want for it!!! I have been flipping cars for a long time now on the side from my 6 figure FT career, not to mention all my cars, boats, jet ski's that I've sold over the years since I was 16.

Thanks for letting me know I'm the 2nd owner of my car "Mr Know It All", like I didn't know that, HAHAHA:confused:...

I'm done with this thread so post away "Mr Know It All", I won't be reading!
 
relax guys its just a craigslist ad:shrug: car does look clean though.
would i pay that much...no. but someone else might
 
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