newport996

You know what...you are ABSOLUTELY right! I posted it for sale on a different enthusiats board and got LOW BALL crazy offers...put it on Cars.com and BAM....all kinds of interest and got my asking price....It was priced well, so I didnt rip him off, we both got what we wanted out of it...but now that you mention the crazy lowball offers came from enthusiasts....

BruceP

Yup. Same on the Rover board I follow (selling my Disco soon), and the same was true at Roadfly for my BMW. I got thousands more on a TRADE for my Z3 than the Z3-lovers said I could get on a private sale.

Buy from an enthusiast. Sell to a civilian.

Wellardmac

A good way of phrasing it!

hddude

That would explain the $53k +10% commission that was paid for a flood damaged, salvage title 996 at Barrett-Jackson last week. It seemed crazy to me until I read these posts.

red911c2

+1000

I sold my 2000 996 Tip back in July of 2007 for $36k. If I listened to the pricing advice on this board, I'd have priced it at about $30k and let it go for the high $20's...

VGM911

In the old (pre-internet) days, we offered our cars for sale in the local newspaper. We didn't like paying charges for the ads, so we priced our cars "at market" in order to make sure the cars sold quickly.

With the advent of the internet, the cost to reach a car-buying audience has markedly decreased. Therefore, the cost of running an ad has become less expensive.

This means that sellers are not motivated to list their cars "at market" because the price of the ads has become more reasonable. The result is that high-end cars listed on the internet tend to be listed at inflated prices because there is little financial cost to keep running the ads for weeks and weeks.

True? False?

Tippy

I sold my TIPTRONIC with 102,000 miles for $28,000..........

Oh yeah, I never advertised, the car sold itself.............

newport996

Maybe true if you are trying to get PREMIUM....I for one wanted to move the car as my next car was not coming until it sold, and alot of people are like that....I think you might get some high priced cars out there by people not that motivated to sell...so if I get this crazy asking price, I'll sell it, otherwise I wont....I see people with cars for sale for YEARS....and I think...they STILL have not sold it? But then, maybe they dont WANT to....

bmartini

newport996 i still don't get how you sold your car for $30k? 145k miles? we live in the same part of town and where i'm from, the ads are saturated with 996s. i see them advertised for even up to $35K but they stay there forever. the ones that move are priced around $25k or so. am i alone in this?

bmartini

F*ck it, if this is really what they go for, I'm gonna post mine for a little profit and see if it sells.... I can always find another 996.... easily....

gota911

He had done a LOT of upgrades on his car, and I guess the buyer saw value in the upgrades.

tooloud10

He must have been the right buyer, because that brings to mind the SECOND dirty secret about market pricing: "upgrades" are worth nothing and can actually DE-value a car, and options are worth pennies on the dollar.

UCrazyKid

I would not run 10W-30 in the car. Stick with Porsche recommended oil weights.
0W-40 or 5W-40 full synthetic only.

Oil changes are very easy in this car compared to the 993.

DCP

No. That was still nuts.

Riad

Quote:

Is a 996 faster than a 993?

Only if they are moving.