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I find it very easy to ignore such ads.
I feel the same way about rummage/garage sale ads that give no idea of what is for sale; "Garage Sale, Saturday 8-4, 138788 Bumdiddly Drive". Does the advertiser really think somebody will drive clear across town only to find that there is nothing for sale but clothes for skinny people?
There are people who just go to every garage sale regardless.
I had a garage sale once in SF and there were a dozen people with trucks circling around my block an hour early. They would knock on the door before I put the stuff out and ask if they could just buy everything for $100. It was clear they hadn't even read the ad. Later I learned this was a very common thing in the area.
I wonder if there are car people who are the same way.
Odd that so many say they won't reply to an ad like this (and it's true, I won't either) but sellers haven't seemed to have figured it out yet.
Had a neighbor place a For Sale sign with vehicle at end of driveway. Price began at $11,995.00. Then a few months later he used same cardboard sign and crossed out the $11,995.00 and put in $11,795.00.
Fast forward - three years. He sold it for $2,200.00.
No price listed in the ad is not always shady. The seller might not know the market value. Possibly a good opportunity for a savvy buyer to get a deal.
The "note lots" around these parts often use this gimmick. You'll see them in the Auto Shopper, usually near the back. The cars are all auction queens that have been around the block a few (million) times.
The clientele interested in these cars are bad/no credit buyers who need a car, period. If the weekly payment is something they feel they can handle, they don't really care what the actual market value is, and they likely are not in the habit of running numbers on NADA-related sites in the first place.
There was one instance where a private seller on Wheeler Dealers didn't even know what he wanted for the car - an old Jeep CJ7 that they wanted to restore and flip. There was all of one in the entire UK. They agreed on a price of 1000lbs and ended up reselling it for 4k after fixing it up.
I just plopped my SuperCrew on CL for a bit last night after I got home and got one hit from some ditzy chick saying, "I could bring you $10,000 tomorrow morning" (Go figure...she messaged me on an iPhone.)
Well, okay...that's fine and dandy, so I tell her this: "What about the rest? You'd want the title eventually, right?"
Her last message I just deleted was "Do you have the title?" Jesus H Christ.
Offering me $10,000 for a truck I owe $11,000 on and want $14,000 for wasn't going to cut it. Hell, I noted in the ad that I have a lien on it, too!
Give me 10 large. Fine. Once I start spending it waiting for the other $4000, well, consider it a non-refundable deposit and you have some catching up to do.
We want to move to flagstaff arizona and I've noticed that ever since the markets rising again that all of a sudden the listings have no price? Is it the "if you have to ask you can't afford it" scenario? I wonder if thats why some of the auto sales are not listing the imp info or is it they have lots to hide?
I never understood why a seller wouldnt advertise the price/mileage and have to deal with hundreds of calls asking "what's the price and mileage?"
In the past when I use to buy a car then sell it once I got bored with it, I'd always list the mileage, price, condition along with detailed pics. Never took me more than a week to sell a car on craigslist and I've bought and sold over 25 cars while in my 20's.
Last edited by louie0406; 08-03-2015 at 06:27 AM..
Louie, you are right. Why have to deal with annoying calls? Make it clear from the start, no financing or checks, cash only and be done with it. I have sold cars on CL and made it clear , pics are free and help the sale as well. I have only had a couple tire kickers in the years I have done it and majority of the time, it went smoothly.
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