05-28-2015, 11:50 AM
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OK, I lowballed.
And now I feel dirty.
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05-28-2015, 12:28 PM
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Don't feel dirty, it's just the market talking: if anyone else at all in the area were interested, it'd be gone by now.
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05-28-2015, 12:35 PM
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Well, they want to fight the market: they say they're firm at $5.5k.
(And how well has that worked for them in the past month?  )
I told them if they want to sell it, they have my contact info. |
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05-28-2015, 01:20 PM
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"Prius prey"; would that then become a "Preyus"?
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
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05-28-2015, 01:32 PM
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... they want to fight the market: they say they're firm at $5.5k. ...
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I thought you said 5.5K was about where they started. So they called for people to contact them wit a price instead of relisting with their 5.5K price only to insist on 5.5K when someone contacted them with a price?
Yikes. Best to let them contact you in the future. Maybe they'll sell at 5k or a little lower, or maybe not. Up to them.
This is fun. Thanks for sharing the deets of the search... useful for me.
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05-28-2015, 02:12 PM
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OK, I lowballed.
And now I feel dirty.
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The antithesis of a dirty lowballer is a spotless broke highballer. I like my change too much, LOL.
http://richmond.craigslist.org/cto/5029141336.html
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05-28-2015, 02:35 PM
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That thing has a cassette player! My 1998 Honda did not have one of those anymore. Wow!
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05-28-2015, 03:56 PM
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I thought you said 5.5K was about where they started. So they called for people to contact them wit a price instead of relisting with their 5.5K price only to insist on 5.5K when someone contacted them with a price?
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More or less what happened. This is the 4th time they've re-listed. First: $6k; 2nd: $5.5k; 3rd: $6k (go figure); 4th: "contact us".
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OOOH! FRESH MEAT! And within my C.R.A.P. Prius radius....
2001 with lower than average kms (192k kms = 119k miles).
Asking $1500.
This'll disappear quickly if it's decent, but unfortunately I don't have the chance to look until the weekend. I'll contact him and may aim for Saturday.
He might be a "curbsider" dealer though. He has 2 unlicensed cars for sale currently, but lists them as private sales, and the photos look like a small car lot.
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05-29-2015, 10:00 PM
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Sweeping Generalization Time:
1st gen Prius owners who advertise their cars for sale don't seem to grasp the concept of actually communicating with prospective buyers.
Not a peep back on the above 2001 after 2 messages in 2 days.
That's 3 uncommunicative gen. 1 sellers for me.
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05-29-2015, 10:07 PM
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That has little to do with being a gen1 prius. Most super deal priced things get lots of calls. What gets me is the people that don't delete the ad once sold.
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Sweeping Generalization Time:
1st gen Prius owners who advertise their cars for sale don't seem to grasp the concept of actually communicating with prospective buyers.
Not a peep back on the above 2001 after 2 messages.
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