i just dont understand why some guys think there **** rusted out hunks of junk are worth the in sane prices they want? i understand the fact that there are only so many cl***ics left but 5000 for a t bucket that is gonna need over 30% of the metal replaced? or 700 for the door to a 50 chevy? really?! i see this **** on craigslist all the time. just dont understand it
Those guys are NOT car guys, or if they are, they are predators preying on people who have just entered, or want to enter, the old car hobby and are ficing to learn a big lesson. Learn and research what you are doing or some s***bag will burn your wallet to the ground. Heck, I guess you could call these guys "teachers" too.
We have a few 57 chevys 60's olds setting at a tow company, been there for years. These were four door junkers towed in for s****. He wants full price like they are running and driving cars. I had a friend wanted the taillights out of one of the 60 olds and the guy wants something like $4500 and wont sell any parts. The guy that wanted the parts is dead now and the cars are still there setting.
Craigslist is a free ad , so it costs them nothing to try to reel in a ****er. i see dreamers on there all the time.
Just search the numerous "s**** metal price" and "EPA" threads and you get a pretty clear picture that it pays more for people to s**** stuff, especially when the county or city is on your *** to clean up your property. At least around here, how many people have anything lying around from the 1920-30s? Chances are if they've kept it around for all these years, they "think" they know what its worth. If they've had it for 50 years, they probably don't need the money either. Thats a bad combination. With no buyers, the prices will come down. They have around here...
People watch to much TV and think everything is worth gold chain er prices even if the car is **** and almost rotted away.
It's funny when prices asked are excessively high people complain, yet when a really good part is offered at a very reasonable price, you still can't sell it. i had a mint set of '50 Chevy tudor doors on here for sale for a $100 each, and ended up s****ping them. I still have the mint hood and trunk lid for the car at $100 ea. and will likely s**** them also. It seems everyone is afraid to invest in the cost of shipping to get what they need, yet these type parts aren't going to be within a 50 mile drive most of the time. So one needs to realize that there will be a day when it is gone, and would be sad if it is gone to the s**** yard.
Unfortuantely the cost of shipping often exceeds the selling item and sometimes by several times. I have seen that blow the deal too many times. As for the high asking prices for what is pretty close to junk. I think TV has a lot to do with that along with charactors hoping to find someone who is desperate enough to cough up the big bucks. Around here I think that there are a few guys who get their jollies hording stuff that they could actually sell to finance some of their other projects and actually get a project finished. They would rather hord than finish a project.
More times than not it comes down to having enough money. IMO, it depends on how bad you want it. Obviously if the asking price is too much, considering condition, you don't need it...you just WANT it. If you see a bunch of cars in a field and the guy doesn't want to sell em cheap, he doesn't NEED to get rid off them and you don't NEED to take it home with you. I'm always broke. However when I want something bad enough, I sell off everything I don't need to get it. This will always be the case with everybody. You can go your whole life and not find someone who doesn't care what they get for an acre of tin. That's why you should always try and meet their price when they give you one. Then if they get something else, chances are they'll give you first shot cause you didn't try to lowball 'em the first time. My .02 Brian
yea i agree with ya, i got a 50 cev runnign on here and ive had offers like 1200! and it has a clean ***le. ya just cant win i guess
I look at this from a sellers point of view as I sold vintage car parts full time for 5 years. I know what people will pay for my junk. I want top dollar for everything. I have no interest in giving people deals anymore than you would come in and work 10 hours and get paid for only 8 at your job. I've had people complain my about high prices before, but somehow I manage to get what I want for my junk eventually.
I sell alot of parts and I want a good price for them... I find them drag them home often do some work on them and sell them... Why should I give them away. Right now I am working on a pair of 32-34 ford truck doors. I put in new bottoms and I replaced one of the door skins. when I am done they will be nice doors and I expect to get a good price...or I will keep them. Some things are worth more than others and sometimes its supply and demand that plays a part in the price.... How many of you give away 32 ford parts....?
I dunno.....I guess if you don't want to pay the asking price, you just walk away. Why get yourself all worked up over something with which you have no control?
Couldn't have tried very hard to sell them. The HAMB cl***ified is a pretty limited market, but if you actually advertise elsewhere, you can sell an early '50s Chevy just about down to the frame pretty fast. Especially if you're willing to take the buck or so each those doors would have brought as s**** (if even that). How damned much room does a door take up anyways? Not that much. Exactly, sooner or later someone will need the parts. Selling cars and parts is a lot more work than people think, you don't just inherit all this stuff or pick it up for free on the side of the road, sometimes you have an entire week invested in one car or one small lot of parts, by the time you find it, buy it, and bring it home. It took me three years to find a guy who needed the '40 Plymouth coupe deck lid I saved, but I got my price for it. I had months invested in the junkyard it came out of. I find everyone wants to weasel a deal out of you even when the price is cheap, so anymore I decide what I want and add 50-100% onto that, so when someone wants to offer me half the marked price, I get what I want and he thinks he got a deal. That may explain some of the high prices you see. You won't believe the ***holes who come along and some are serious, others think they're funny, who will offer you like 10% of the asking price on something. I get so I just tell them outright to **** off and that even if they came back with a million dollars they'd get the same answer.
It's one thing to make a decent profit, that's called free trade but asking ridiculous prices for something that's barely recognizable as a car or car part just because it "used" to be one? That's what we're talking about here, not somebody who is a legitimate "vintage" parts seller and whose parts are priced relavent to their rarity or popularity. I'm willing to pay what something is worth IF I have to but I'd rather get a "deal" if I could, who wouldn't? But there are far too many jack***es out there who think every rusty old hulk is a 401K in the making. I know cars that were once scorned are acceptable now and stuff is getting harder to find but some of the **** I see for sale for big money is an insult to anybody's intelligence, even mine. As far as the "if I can't get my price I'll s**** it" at***ude......... What the Hell is that **** all about? I rather give the **** away and see it get used and have..... a little Karma goes a long way sometimes, it ain't always about money. Plus I was raised that you don't waste anything and s****ping good parts just to satisfy your own ego is waste of the worst kind. OK, sermon over, let the hate mail begin.
Them that has, have! Them that want, don't have! And then they have to pay the price the havers want, not the price the don't havers want to pay to get! LOL traderjack
If it's not worth it to you, then don't buy it, but if he sells it, then its hard to say it wasn't "worth" the price. I'll pay a few hundred more for a door I NEED thats local so I can pick it up with no h***les, plus inspect it, over a door I have to roll the dice on quality plus the h***les of getting it to me.
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