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Nothing wrong with exposing your item for sale to bygoing traffic.
Has nothing to do with how item is priced.
If you have short fuse then you just price to sell right away and regret later.
If you have patience and people skill, you price high and slowly lower price, till you get traction.
But display it anywhere you want to, legally, of course.
I also believe that parking a for sale signed car in large malls or stores parking lots is asking for break in.
If they don't have the price on the sign, they're probably overpriced.
There is a Santa Fe right around the corner that fits that description. It doesn't even show a phone number. I suspect they expect people to knock on the door.
I put a fir sale sign with a phone number. I can’t list everything the car has, and yes I ask top dollar. But the vehicle is worth it. I dont bs people and I don’t hide anything
In my experience, most private sale cars start out overpriced. It's only a matter of time before the real world intrudes and the price comes down. It's the same way with trade-ins. People look up their car value on KBB and expect the dealership to give them that number instead of the wholesale price.
Whenever I sell a vehicle, I always show the price at $500 to $1000 above what I really want. I know there will be lo-ballers coming to look and make low offers. If the offer is close to what I really want, I accept it. They drive away happy, thinking they really bargained me down on the price. I drive away happy, knowing I got what I really wanted.
Everybody is happy with the deal!
It works for me...
What is worth $100 to you might be worth $3000 to someone else. I recently sold 15 year old car for $1000. The blue book value if in good condition was $4000. But it had some issue that would cost me $2000 to repair at a shop. But for someone who is good with cars, the repair would cost maybe $500. Also there were scratches and dents that would cost maybe 1000 to fix, but many wouldn't care about them at all.
So how much that car was worth? Anywhere from $1000 to $3500. Also the make and model is kind of rare and there are people who would want to buy this particular make and model even if they had to pay more.
So of course, I started kind of high around $2500 hoping someone will show up who would want this particular make and model and can repair it himself. But after a week of no takers, I was was asking less and less until there were several people willing to buy it for around $1000. The first one who got to me with the money - got it.
And it had 'for sale' sign all this time. So the OP might be right. All the time while I wanted more for the car then I eventually got - it was overpriced. At the moment I sold it (what would become a market price) the 'for sale' sign was taken off.
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