<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Lee00blacksilverGTS:
Kelly, I'm afraid I agree, your buyer got a GREAT deal, I would have hung on for more. Trey is an interesting example, he's hanging in there for a while to get his price and that's what ya gotta do. I've watched him work it, even I think on the Corvette forum, sorry Trey if I got this mixed up..my point is he's WORKIN' it, talking to guys in various places and waiting for the one guy who shows up or hears about it after all the networking who WANTS that car with those mods at a FAIR price to both parties. You can't be in a hurry if you want a good price for the car. And you have to advertise it in the right places..Autotrader probably being the best...if you put it in your local paper and I mean your local BIG paper like the Washington Post and the Viper classifieds here and got nothing, then not enough work. There are guys who have the stomach for this sales work and there are others who will drop like a fly at the first offer because they don't have the patience or the NEED for that extra 5k. For others it ain't just about the money, don't need it, it's about keeping score, how well can I do on this deal. I recently did very well in selling an M5, had it for 24 months, put 20,000 on it and got 6k less than MSRP, which is what I paid, but I worked at it and tried various things, bringing it up on a BMW board like this got a whole bunch of tirekickers on email, the Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun..Both BIG papers, not ONE call. Couple of those private services..nothing..autotrader..put it on WITH A PICTURE. (FORGET IT IF YOU DON'T HAVE A PICTURE) at 10pm Sunday night...7am 5 phone calls, first guy, "I'm 200 miles away, I WANT the car, I don't want to argue about the price, it's fair, I'm bringing a bank check, be there in 4 hours. He was there, the car was gone, and he was a fun car guy, showed up in a custom lowered, crazy painted, supercharged Durango. The price was the same as I had quoted on all the other ways I had tried, and it sold in 12 hours...point is I did not lower my price I tried harder to find the right venue..autotrader, instead of bimmer.org or the papers. One other thing, I wrote a heck of an ad, I said "never been smoked in or even 20 feet from it".. I said " Never valeted or driven by anyone other than me, even the DEALER" The point is, advertise in the right place, and spend time writing the advertising, and be patient. And the worst thing, by the way, for all of us is for a guy to come on the board, say he's selling his car for whatever $ and the rest of us to say...NO, NO, too much dummy, not fair, too high, not market price, etc. We all own these things, is it in our best interest to drive the price down? I think not, unless the guy comes on and asks what's a fair price? That's different. This has always been a pet peeve of mine and something that is practiced with great skill at bimmer.org due to the fact that a large proportion of guys there are shoppers rather that owners as we are here. A final comment..IMHO, you guys trying to unload right now are missing the boat. The SRT is delayed, no more GTS or rt10 being made, at some point soon dealers run out of old cars, no new ones yet? And if you own a GTS, why dump now, wait till the market finds out no more and after all the guys who must sell the gts to get the srt clear out of the market. Mark my words wait one year, GTS prices will be up, maybe not true for RT10 as more convertible types may go for srt...but one fact...no more coupe...one caveat...don't wait TWO years to sell, my prediction is new coupe in 2005. But, now is a lousy time to sell a GTS, wait a while! No flames to anyone, just a BUSINESS interpretation of the used Viper market.
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Exactly! That's exactly what I'm doing.
