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Ebay car values
65ShelbyClone:
Ebay used to be a place that was fairly easy to find good deals without having to wait real long. Now the deals are few and far between; it's just a place to buy something because you can find it there.
I distinctly remember the "ask for twice what you expect to get" phenomenon emerging around the crash of '08. I think a lot of people started flipping to scrape-up money and those types would lowball half of your asking price, even if it was already reasonable. Those same people would try to flip for twice+ what they paid no matter how ridiculous that price ended up being. Non-flipper buyers caught on and would offer half, a haggle ensues, and the flipper would get something a little higher than they paid. And of course the televised auctions and picker/pawn/flipper shows served to further make it harder to be buyer of practically anything.
Reeves1:
Had a guy visit & looked the car over real well.....then he offered 20k for it !
I told him the engine is worth that !
He went home without it......
caravan3921:
"Ebay used to be a place that was fairly easy to find good deals without having to wait real long. Now the deals are few and far between; it's just a place to buy something because you can find it there."
Boy, you got that right! I used to actively sell on ebay all the time, it was fun selling off vintage Lionel train stuff to people excited about buying it, but now I only buy. Ever since ebay changed their selling policies and require sellers to enter their personal bank info...no way are we giving ebay our personal banking info. There's a lot of internet complaining conversation about this as well. It just doesn't seem right to me. (I still have more 1950s-era train stuff to re-home so maybe I'll have to try Craigslist.)
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