That is not always the case in selling a specialty or after market turnkey
vehicle. Depending the area of the seller and the intent of the buyer.
I sold a 2000 V6 Twin Turbo Roush Ferd Rustang for amount that you could of
bought a Saleen S-281 SC for and only advertised it for three days. It sold
quickly and the car is completely an after-market product from both Roush
Racing and seller adds ons. What sold the car was the TT and the Roush
aggressive package. If I didn't have that well, like other owners I would
of had a hard time to convince anyone worth buying.
Buyer demands. Look around and see what is selling in your area.
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Steven St.Laurent
Test Engineer
Test Branch, GSD, MCTSSA
MARCORSYSCOM, USMC
760-725-2506 (DSN 365-2506)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Tom [mailto:tigers@bserv.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 9:25 AM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: Re: DML: trade in or sell
At 02:02 PM 9/7/00 EDT, you wrote:
>Hey Dml'ers,, real dilemma,,,Should I try to sell my truck
>or just trade it as is...anyone have this experience ?
>Thanks, Ted O.
In the ~40 years of owning cars, I would guess that I would
lose, on an average, a few thousand at least if I did a trade
in. It's a pain to sell privately what with advertising,
being home to take calls, describing the truck and arranging
for look-sees and test drives, and, lately, in Ont., the gov't
has made it more complicated to sell privately ... virtually
responsible for a safety (which means emissions as well) and
must purchase a 'selling' kit from the license bureau but this
might not apply in your locale. Having said that, if you want
to save a significant amount of money towards your next purchase,
private is the way to go.
Your truck is really modded up. I would suggest that you remove
as much as possible (I gather that you are). I'm performance-oriented
but I would never purchase an aftermarket, modded vehicle for the obvious
reasons. Your truck, in stock or near stock form (especially a 4 x 4
without the SC, nitrous, MPI, 24# injectors) will appeal to a wider
buyers market and you don't have to convince everyone that it has
not been driven hard. Sell the aftermarket parts seperately ...
if the buyer wants them, all the better.
Good luck, whatever you do! Except for buying a Lightning :-)
Bob
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