Re: [Amc-list] Frustration

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Archimedes wrote:

> This is an old story, you know.  I've spent years offering a fair prices to
> people who thought their cars were worth ten times as much ... only to find
> out six months or a year later that they scrapped it for a hundred bucks.

THAT happens all the time! Totally annoying!

But people are not always rational about cars.

The other thing about $100 vs. $300; aside from the insult
and foolishness of the seller: I try to think of it this way:
would I benefit from parting with $300 and have that car in
your yard? Even if it's "not worth" it, it may, in the end, be.

$300 isn't a lot of money these days, unfortunately.

> So I ask him if he'd sell
> me the car for $3k or so.  He laughs and tells me he'd open it up and let
> his dogs sleep in it rather than sell it for that; and that he wouldn't
> listen to any offer less than $25,000.

And it's his dogs that will end up sleeping in it :-)
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