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Old 05-21-2014, 02:00 PM   #15 (permalink)
sarguy01
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Originally Posted by RobertISaar View Post
if i were a less than fair person and bought a car for $250...... and wanted to make a nice, quick return on my investment, i would do just that, pocket the money if the seller pays up and sell the car for scrap, coming out ~$900 ahead of where i started.

not that i'm saying this is the case, but even if he doesn't get the "repair" money, he can still scrap it and profit, just not as much.



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Valid. Buy a car for cheap, break it, get some money from the previous owner, and then scrap it. Pocket a few hundred dollars.

But, I have a feeling the car was sold for more than $250... A running Toyota should fetch at least $1,000, even with no AC and a zillion miles. I sold my faded purple, broken AC'd 208,000 mile Geo Metro for $1,500.
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