bmwtmx

If you want to sell the car put it on Autotrader and see what happens. Rennlist, 6speed, Pelican Pars, etc. are all Porsche fan sites and the users know what they want, what they want to spend, etc. Most people don't buy cars on forums and most likely never heard of them to begin with. I have advertised many cars on these forums (and others) and even have 1 for sale right now. Truth is, I never sold one car to a forum member EVER. No matter the car, no matter the price, no matter what I was always nickle and dimed and told my car was worth thousands less than advertised. To the point, I sold my 2007 997 TT with 18k miles last month. Was on the forums for 3 weeks with the only interest being that my price was too high. After the second week on the forums I put it on Autotrader and sold it in 6 days right under my asking price. The buyer never heard of the forums, loved the car and had it checked it at the shop of his choice. Deal done.

You can debate this til you are blue in the face but if you want to sell it go to a place that 95% of the buyers go.

groovzilla

I'd have to disagree - RL has lots of good buyers, car just has to be priced correctly and solid as far as servicing and condition - I've sold 5 of my P-cars on RL over the past 8 years
Of course when I shop/hunt for a P-car I always have resale in mind - That's why I would never buy a 997 with more than 80K miles so I can enjoy for the 5-8K miles I will use it and then when ready to sell it is far enough way from 100K miles to attract a good solid buyer. I only use my car sparingly for dinners out with wife or Sunday driving.
My current 07 997 has 76K miles - When I plan to sell early next year it will have under 80K.

For those that use as daily driver or put lots of miles on P-car I would always suggest figuring out the miles you will drive during ownership and buy accordingly so car is far away from 100K mile mark. Cars in the mid-80K mile range still hold value nicely.

Mike Murphy

sandwedge

Sounds about right although a lot of those who are looking to buy come from other high performance cars and seem very knowledgeable so I would probably up the 70% enthusiast number a bit. But unless I misunderstood, I read shekmark's question as to how many of the total owners of Porsches post or read Rennlist. I don't have the faintest idea but If I was forced to guess I'd say less than 10%. Maybe even less than 5%.

groovzilla

^^^Porsche owners who are RL members I would also guess about 5%

shekmark

Sandwedge...you are correct, thank you. That was what I meant. When I first started on this forum, it took me a while to realize that most Porsche owners probably could care less about what is talked about here. I was wondering , also, what % of P-cars are leased. I am betting a higher percent than are purchased.

aj1

in my opinion this video sure explains for me why a manual matters,

milage also matters in my opinion as these cars age maintenance records will be vital to quantify your asking price without how does buyer verify without ppi
I've seen and driven cars with binder full of records and those have been fine examples. with older cars higher maintence is put onto the buyer and price of the vehicle should reflect this. Unfortunately even sitting can be very rough on vehicles.

as far as sales price, Time is the big factor, when do you need or want to sell by will usually dictate the selling price, also time is ticking away as the vehicle is aging quicker
the other thing is who is the buyer of these cars, demographics is changing demand changes


just noticed in the new vehicle for sale area there is no search option for a manual or automatic, but you can pick a 2 cylinder motor though

good luck with your sale

where is the poll for manual vs auto also

groovzilla

Poll is in 997 Forum ----> https://rennlist.com/forums/997-foru...000-miles.html ***You can vote on manual or automatic as part of poll -->Current voting 57M 7AT

sandwedge

I bet you're right. Seems to apply to a lot of brands these days. I have no idea what it costs to lease a Carrera but I'm amazed to see the lease prices for some smaller and cheaper cars. Especially some of the Japanese variants on the lower rung which can be had for just over $100/month. Haven't read the fine print but still....

WantA997

^ New Porsches lease horribly. My GT3, however is leased (structured as a lease-to-own) and I'll also lease my incoming RS (again, as a lease-to-own).

sandwedge

Is there a way out of this lease to own arrangement that won't bankrupt you if anything unforeseen should happen in your life?

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hollywoodikr

There's only two reasons why I didn't buy your vehicle. The first is that I didn't know about it LOL, but more seriously is that I didn't have $30,000 cash so I required some sort of financing and one of the few rules that they had was the vehicle had to have under a hundred thousand miles maybe this is the problem of others are having.

shekmark

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