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Old 01-31-2013, 07:58 PM   #2 (permalink)
War_Wagon
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KBB gets more and more out of wack as the car you are looking up gets older. Their price comes from an average drawn from whatever sources they use. As stuff gets older, there are fewer and fewer transactions for that year of that car, so there are fewer data points to average out. So one really nice car bringing a lot of money can mess up the numbers a lot easier. Just because it's cheap doesn't mean it's junk, and just because it's expensive doesn't mean it's good sort of thing. If you are actually interested in buying one, take the time to go look at it with the owner there. Mileage will have the biggest effect on what you should pay for it, you need to see that 1st digit on the odo.
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