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Old 04-04-2011, 01:40 PM
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Old 04-04-2011, 01:45 PM
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With a mid $20k buy it now price, the reserve is probably no where near the current bid. The auction will close w/o a winner.
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sometimes you just wish these guys would forget to setup the reserve info on the auction
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That BIN price is optimistic even for a pristine 46K car.
"SchhhweeetCars" is looking for that money for a car with an accident history. They're dreaming. That's gonna scare off any prudent long-distance buyer who can't look at it for himself.
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also noticed it has been driven 7300 miles in the past 16 years, church, the grocery store and state inspections
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also noticed it has been driven 7300 miles in the past 16 years, church, the grocery store and state inspections
Ehhh... that wouldn't bother me too much if it had any kind of a maintenance paper trail, even a fairly wispy one. Without one, it would give me pause, but if I liked the car I'd still buy it. These cars are getting so long in the tooth now, a 1991 with 40K miles is 2000 mi./yr. That's about the usage history mine had when I bought it. How many miles are too few?
I agree that I would start to think, with very low miles, that the car may have been stored for an extended period at some point. So how was it stored? Indoors, in a temperature-controlled environment, or out back in a lean-to under a tarp, where the moisture, mold and mildew start to take over? I'd have to see the really low-mile car in person.



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