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Old Jul 8, 2022 | 05:27 PM
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You'd be sickened to hear what he paid for that L68 car.
Well, I for one, would enjoy a good retch... 🤮
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Old Jul 8, 2022 | 05:49 PM
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Well, I for one, would enjoy a good retch... 🤮
$25k.
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Old Jul 8, 2022 | 07:09 PM
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Any pictures of these plugs? My frame shows no signs of threads and still has the insulation on the rockers.
I don’t have close up pics. I think they are very hard to see. They may be painted over or just covered by debris lots of times. I’ll try to get some pics of my frame.
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Old Jul 8, 2022 | 08:48 PM
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$25k.
Dry heaves, maybe a tad queasy...

More power to him if he can realize that sort of short-term gain.
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Old Jul 9, 2022 | 01:52 PM
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$25k.

Whaaat? The current seller bought it for $25k, or the guy the seller bought it from paid $25k?

I mentioned on my other thread that I contacted the seller, and he doesn’t want to deal at all. He said he has too much into the car. He also told me after I sent him the C3 registry listing on his car, that he thinks he’s listing it for too low (as mentioned here) but he’s willing to sell it to me for his $60k list price.

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Old Jul 9, 2022 | 02:01 PM
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[QUOTE=…) but he’s willing to sell it to me for his $60k list price.[/QUOTE]

Well that sure is generous of him……
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Whaaat? The current seller bought it for $25k, or the guy the seller bought it from paid $25k?

I mentioned on my other thread that I contacted the seller, and he doesn’t want to deal at all. He said he has too much into the car. He also told me after I sent him the C3 registry listing on his car, that he thinks he’s listing it for too low (as mentioned here) but he’s willing to sell it to me for his $60k list price.
Here is the Facebook market place ad from last year. I was the second caller on the car. The seller explained that he just accepted an offer of $25k but if the buyer backs out, I am the next on the list. Of course, that never happened. After speaking with me and with the number of calls he received, he realized he asked too low for the car but felt obliged to keep his word and accept the offer. Anyway, a couple weeks later it was on Craigslist for $60k.



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Wow! Good to know
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Here is the Facebook market place ad from last year. I was the second caller on the car. The seller explained that he just accepted an offer of $25k but if the buyer backs out, I am the next on the list. Of course, that never happened. After speaking with me and with the number of calls he received, he realized he asked too low for the car but felt obliged to keep his word and accept the offer. Anyway, a couple weeks later it was on Craigslist for $60k.

That's kind of lame. Looks like someone took advantage of a seller who didn't for some reason know the value of the car he was selling, and someone capitalized on it. I would not feel right about doing something like that. Kind of forgivable if the buyer was planning on keeping the car and just got an insane deal, but if you're first instinct is to turn around and sell it to turn a profit, I just don't see honor in that. I do understand that's what a used car salesman does, but have some integrity... c'mon.
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