Thanks all for the input. I finally got my s together and washed the car and got some good pictures so I can put a for sale thread together. I will drop a link in the 997 forum once done. Happy new year to all!

I got low-balled recently at a dealer. 23k for my 2006 997s with 40k miles. Crazy low wholesale values on our cars.

You need WAY more pics.

understood. Craigslist post has 20 pics and I said on both I can send more per request. Had a brutal time uploading pics to the site today.

Wow.....I’m one of those fleecing, low balling, dealers you think of, 25+years, and a car guy, 10 or so personal Porsche’s at one time or another
lets assume the Trade In is a late model car, less than 5 years old, I don’t care what brand we are talking about, almost w/out exception none of us can find enough nice trades. The days of stealing trades are almost all gone, there are books, they mean nothing, but they are there, you can look at hundreds of like cars on line to get an idea on asking price, CarMax just opened it’s 200th? Store all of which offer free appraisals.

some real and recent anecdotes;I just bought an 06 C4S Coupe, 36K Miles , 103k MSRP, Tip, full leather, Factory Navi, good tires and brakes, Speed Yellow, 2keys and books, clean CarFax and Auto Check for 35000. I did not negotiate a dollar, car started at 47900....wanna Bet the guy who traded it thought he got fleeced/gypped/low balled. 180 Days later the dealer lost $5000 real money.
There is a 19k mile, 08 C4S Cab, adaptive hard back sport seats, Balsat Blk, Tan In, etc etc, 109k MSRP, gorgeous no pick car, 25 Miles from where I’m typing this, it’s $49xxx, a little high maybe , for sale for almost 6 months, he bought an MB from a neighbor so he didn’t receive a trade in offer, but if he was offered $40,000 six months ago should he have taken it?
There is an 01, 10k mike 4Cab for sale around here as nice as can be, 1 owner , I was offered the car private party for 30k when I was out of town in June, I declined. After months of research and Soul searching I thought the provenance and Miles were enough to forget about it not being an S, it needing an IMS etc. I knew it was still around so I called the original owner, who still had it, to say I’d take it, he now wants $39,000. I bet it remains unsold.
The car I bought was from Porsche of Tacoma,,,,you can still find it on google I bet. The other two are in and around Albaquacky try 50 Miles from 87004. Car Gurus I think for the 08, The 10 mile car was on the Porsche sites. PCA.orgi think

What I’m trying to say is because someone is not offering what you think it’s worth doesn’t mean you’re being fleeced/ripped off/low balled. Offer to put the car on his lot for consignment and if he sells for what you want you’ll pay him $5000, almost no dealers will do that. Why? Because they are afraid of your price being too high and he’ll never sell it, on the other hand offer him $5000 profit on all his cars over 21days old and he’ll take it. Why? Because there aren’t 250 dealers in the country averaging 5000 a copy.....some where in there is the dealers avg profit, recon is so high you would never believe it, a Used Car Dept pays the same or more than customer labor rates. When a private individual sell a car and says it’s perfect, well if it breaks too bad, a dealer has to recondition a car to a standard that the new owner will need NOTHING for six to twelve months
now to your car
list on Porsche enthusiast web site
if that doesn’t work return to stock
go to nearest CarMax, get an appraisal
go to the dealer that has a car you’re interested in get a trade in offer
how does it compare to KMX’s offer, with sales tax credit?
what is it worth to you to go through the hassle to sell on your own
what if you take KMX’s offer add 1500-2000 and list it...you have a nice wholesale price floor , go a little higher than that
most, not all, on line shoppers look for lowest price , hence Car Gurus, and CarFax both having a price comparison tool...Auto Trader amd Cars.com will undoubtedly follow
CarMax probably won’t retail your car as all their cars are less than 10 years old, it will be close, but they do run a mostly weekly dealer only wholesale auction, they have hundreds of thousands of data points to help them assign a value
a Franchised dealer will almost certainly not sell a car as old as yours, Porsche of Colorado Springs comes to mind as an exception, so most dealers will call a wholesaler, get a buy bid, subtract 1000 and pass that on to you...I don’t think that’s low balling

I know there’s a lot here, made more confusing by my iPad keyboard
reach out/PM me with any questions you may have
a ‘no pick’ car sells the fastest for the most money, keep that in mind, the new tires are a huge step in that direction
car guy Danny