Thinking of selling my 99' C4...
07-13-2010, 03:45 PM
#34
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Or you could put it on eBay and get almost $25k. This is the same year car with very similar mileage, it's a Tiptronic, and it doesn't have a reman engine.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1999-...item43a0158521
I'll continue to say that y'all talking about pricing in the teens for a car like that is just silly. You're leaving money on the table. The cars in the teens tend to have higher mileage or a story attached to them. They don't tend to have new engines, though.
07-13-2010, 05:00 PM
#36
Drifting
OK, first, seeing all these posts on here over the last couple of years of the 996 prices and values dropping like a falling knife was more than I could handle. To me it was unrealistic, and I wasn't going to participate. My '99 was still very special and worth tons more than what I was seeing on internet forums. Hell, it was worth more to me than even the published high Blue Book prices.
My car was pristine with 60k miles, everything worked and worked very well, it looked amazing, expensive and when driven comfirmed everything you hoped for. It had a new factory motor, H&R sway bars, PSE. This is a car you could own for years, park it, and still look back at it and think it's the most awsome car in the world.
Drive it in the canyons, top down, at 70% and I assure you, it doesn't get any better that that. I let the new owner do this before I even confirmed that I would sell it, much less talk price. So a pristine, very heavily optioned example with a fairly new motor, just serviced and offered with 4 new tires, and for anything less than HIGH BLUE BOOK? NO WAY!
So, in a nutshell, these cars are all about emotion, and you can sell one of two ways. The prefered is when somone emotionally attached to your car would be a buyer and he wants YOUR car and is willing to pay a fair price. Unfortunately too many cars are sold when the owner become desparate or impatient and must succumb to low offers from bottom fishermen or attract a new owner solely with price.
My car was pristine with 60k miles, everything worked and worked very well, it looked amazing, expensive and when driven comfirmed everything you hoped for. It had a new factory motor, H&R sway bars, PSE. This is a car you could own for years, park it, and still look back at it and think it's the most awsome car in the world.
Drive it in the canyons, top down, at 70% and I assure you, it doesn't get any better that that. I let the new owner do this before I even confirmed that I would sell it, much less talk price. So a pristine, very heavily optioned example with a fairly new motor, just serviced and offered with 4 new tires, and for anything less than HIGH BLUE BOOK? NO WAY!
So, in a nutshell, these cars are all about emotion, and you can sell one of two ways. The prefered is when somone emotionally attached to your car would be a buyer and he wants YOUR car and is willing to pay a fair price. Unfortunately too many cars are sold when the owner become desparate or impatient and must succumb to low offers from bottom fishermen or attract a new owner solely with price.
Last edited by nick49; 07-13-2010 at 05:50 PM.
07-13-2010, 06:03 PM
#37
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Good going Nick!
As much as I want to sell my aero and buy a 993 turbo, it is probably unrealistic for me to get more than $23K on a very good day. The car is perfectly setup to boot.
As much as I want to sell my aero and buy a 993 turbo, it is probably unrealistic for me to get more than $23K on a very good day. The car is perfectly setup to boot.
07-13-2010, 06:05 PM
#38
Something still doesn't make sense. Either the owner wanted that specific color of your car or...? I don't see a 99 c2 with 60k having a high bluebook of 30k. I'm not speaking as a cynic but just based on what I've seen in the marketplace, nada, Kbb, manheim.
Regardless, congrats on a great price!
Regardless, congrats on a great price!
08-04-2010, 01:35 AM
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what tha
i would be running the other way, you know the old addage, if it sounds too good to be true! & your definitely not helping with the market value of 996 porsches.
08-04-2010, 01:45 AM
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mine would stay in the garage & may be a collector one day before i would EVER sell that cheap! if its paid for why give it away, save for the children if you have any, if not just cruise on a sunny day when your in your 80's or 90's.
