Old 10-27-2009, 02:51 PM
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bluegrassjh
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Newburgh, IN
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What I hate is when you go thru the motions on a trade and right at the end they ask..."What are you asking for the car?" As soon as you come up with a figure..."Oh mine is worth way more than that...have any cash you could throw in?" I never respond to those. I think I even wrote DO NOT ASK FOR A PRICE. on my last ad. If it says trade only...guess what? IT'S NOT FOR SALE. That's why it says trade only. It's a weird game of cat and mouse...and it shouldn't be that way, but it is. So it's either I play the game, or I sit on my car and it doesn't get traded. What to do??? I did an experiment where I posted a price on a ad, one where I had no price at all, and one where I put $1.00. Care to guess which one got the most responses from serious traders? The one with $1.00 did. Which I'm still running to this day. The one with the actual price only got lowballers 3k cars for mine which in all fairness is worth about 5k, and really worth 5k too...not an inflated price. The one with no price at all got nothing. I hunted down cars I liked and offer them the trade. So it boils down to this, the vast majority or members are asking more than their car is truly worth (nothing wrong with profit) but then you get the guys who put what their cars are really worth and all of a sudden the numbers matter more than the cars. My beat up, scratched all to h3ll and back truck is worth $8,000 because I said so. It's a problem with no resolve.
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