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Re: Buying and selling <$5000 Cars [Re: Neil] #2740972
02/08/20 03:34 PM
02/08/20 03:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Neil
It's $5.00 dollars people. Car sells for 5K and you only make $4995.00, which = end of the world to some I guess.
Exactly. Geez. And listing it in auto parts instead is inconsiderate. Sorry, but it is, and annoying to people searching for auto parts.


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Re: Buying and selling <$5000 Cars [Re: larrymopar360] #2741649
02/10/20 05:23 PM
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The number of cars on CL dropped dramatically when they started chargin $5 bucks for it and the quality of cars went up as well as the multiple listings for the same cars went down. Used to be over 1200 at any given time on the local CL FSBO to now it hovers at or just below 300 and I get a lot more legit responses to my adds now people don't have to weed through the worthless crap. Facebook is a huge pain, yeah it's free (for now) but it is not organized in any way and mountains of people asking you "is this still available" that NEVER return your message saying yes it is.

Now if I could finger out how to sell more expensive cars like my 392 hemi ram 1500, no matter how good of a deal you offer cars over about $5000 get a lot harder to sell, Donald Trump could offer to sell me trump tower for $200,000, it would be a steal but I don't have it, same with cars over $5000, you offer a $30,000 car for $10,000 and nobody has $10,000 just laying around.


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Re: Buying and selling <$5000 Cars [Re: larrymopar360] #2741651
02/10/20 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by larrymopar360
Originally Posted by Neil
It's $5.00 dollars people. Car sells for 5K and you only make $4995.00, which = end of the world to some I guess.
Exactly. Geez. And listing it in auto parts instead is inconsiderate. Sorry, but it is, and annoying to people searching for auto parts.


Not to mention being stupid on the part of the seller. Many buyers will only look in the cars for sale section, where the ad belongs, and not look in the parts for sale section, where it doesn't belong.

Re: Buying and selling <$5000 Cars [Re: 318 Stroker] #2741762
02/10/20 10:44 PM
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I sold a car last spring on FB. I had been taking the car to shows and kinda doing the word of mouth thing for a couple years....lots of talkers but no buyers. We got serious about selling it last year and went to CL. Saw the $5 and thought [censored]. Wife says let's put it on FB. Ok. We had a dozen responses in the 1st couple hours!! Sold it the next day to the 1st guy that responded ...for our price...in cash. Done!!

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