So I am trying to sell a P/U. Cheap money, just looking to get a few bucks to work on the A. Today a guy stops in to look at it, starts picking it apart with BS stuff, littereally. Says it needs brakes, it had a brake job 20 miles ago! And he argued with me that it didnt have new brakes. The he kept going, and going. I finally just opened the door to the shop and we walked outside, I locked the door to the shop and drove off with him standing in the yard. I figure it was that or tell him to get fucked, ahhhhhgggghhh Ok a little better now
yup selling a car can be waaayy too stressful. i prefer to trade only within the community , that way you have a better chance to get some respect...
Breathe deeply. You'll be ok. Haha. I understand what you mean, though. Everyone wants to haggle until they think they have a good hero story to tell their buddies. "He was asking $5,600, but I talked him down to a dollar-fifty". You did the best thing you could have. Just walk away. Another buyer will be less insulting.
Jessechop points out a neat trick. Often when someone annoys you, you can walk to their car and THEY WILL FOLLOW YOU and then they drive away!
maybe he's friends with the guy who called on my 70 ford truck with no motor. he asked why it didn't run... when I told him because it has no motor he got all upset that I was trying to sell an old truck without a motor for $100.00. he was truly pissed... I had to hang up up him. sold it to a scrapper who I'm sure got $200.00 for it.
Respect won't pay your bills. If you want respect you should be a good guy wrestler or a firefighter. If you get a tire kicker shut them down.
I had one email me up yesterday asking about a truck in the background of a picture. I told him I wasn't sure on the price but I thought maybe $1500 or best offer, the way guys like to offer half your asking price... $750 would have taken it. Told him to call my friend who does own it and ask him for sure. The guy comes back telling me how in his 35 years of experience all our prices are HIGH and we'd be sitting on the stuff for a long time - and goes on (and on and on) to say that he wasn't even going to make an offer on this truck !!! Now what the hell do I care what some cheap bastard that wasn't going to buy anything in the first place has to say? Apparently saying $1500 means he knows he can't give me the $200 or so it would bring for scrap to buy it. I had to tell him that if he didn't like our stuff he was welcome to shop elsewhere. I do know that particular type of truck is just about non-existant around here outside of the ones my friend has and two or three really rotty ones in a little private yard 150 miles away from our place. I'm really getting so I outright hate people though, selling cars introduces you to all of the world's assholes and they all seem to think you should care about their opinion. Not a one of these people are smart enough to understand that when I sell something, I'm selling it to make money on it, not because I need to sell it to put dinner on the table. It can sit there until the end of time and not hurt me - I just won't have extra money to spend on anything else.
Right there with ya bobwhop. I sell classic cars for a living and deal with it every day. I have stuff from $5000 to $150000 in the showroom so I see the whole gamut of tire kickers and cheapo assholes. Still love my job though, as a friend of mine put it..."DUDE you get to work at a car show every day!"
You can't fix stupid!!! Some people just don't get it. At the Turlock Swap meet last Year I had a pair of 15x8.5 Americans with some nice Bias ply tires on them and I was asking 250.00. 2 guys walked up and one of them asked if I would take 40.00 for the pair??? NAAAA. You handled it cool. Later, JOKER JASON.
I really have to hand it to you guys that sell cars, I couldnt do it, just no way I could deal with people like that. I dunno, maybe I am starting to get a little crankier, yet again 10 years ago I would of told the guy to eat a dick!
Selling stuff can be pretty frustrating. Usually I try to screen people really well before I give them a chance to come look at whatever I'm selling. I have met a lot of creeps and tire kickers, but I have also met a ton of cool people with like interests. Last year I tried to sell a bunch of Model A sheet metal for really cheap at an automotive fleamarket and got laughed at and insulted all day. I was so pissed that when I got home, I disassembled everything, stuck it on the 'Bay and sold it all for good money. I think a lot of people just like to play "the expert" eventhough they really have no intention of buying anything.
Hahahahahahahahaha, ok it gets better, Guys from the shop just called asking me where I put the title cause the dude is there with the cash in hand. HAhahahahahahahaha, almost tempted to tell him it isnt forsale.
i have been trying to help my buddy sell his caddy for 4 months now. finally, some guys drive 3 hours to see it (albeit 4 hours late) last night. they saw it from the back and started getting the trailer ready to load up while another handed my friend full asking price in cash. no questions, no full inspection, no bullshit! i sell hot rods and old cars as part of my job and have never seen a transaction go that quickly and smoothly before. it was incredible! -drZ
Now that's funny! I'm in the process of selling an OT motorcycle. I have it listed locally on Craigslist and the kind of responses I'm getting are just ridiculous. Lots of "experts" out there that think they know what something is worth. My bike isn't worth anything (according to them) but their pile of crap they want to trade me for it is worth twice the Blue Book Value for some reason. Haven't bothered to respond to one yet... Jay
I'd tell him you have another guy coming by in an hour that's willing to go $250 over your original price And ,"we" need pics of this Truck!
I use a simmilar technique to deal with assholes, I tell them "I want to show them something" I walk out the door and say "this is what I wanted to show you.. the door" then I walk back in ... the look on their face is priceless
At least he showed up. Half the time I list a car for sale people call on the phone, set a time to meet and then never show up. What's almost as frustrating are the ones that give you a BS low ball offer over the phone without seeing the car. All time favorite was a guy wanting to trade me his Datsun B210 for my 64 Nova.
it is truly a treat to discover, repair, decode, fluff&buff, drive, and familiarize myself with all our old cars. I get to drive them plenty, race some of them and meet tons of great folks, many of whom are on the HAMB. But, wow, it is unreal the crap that happens. And yes, some of those on HERE rank right there with the worst. But at the end of the day, I feel fortunate...that I didn't hit somebody!!!
I just hate it when some fag comes up and Kicks My Tires !@!! And what's even worse is when they let There Dog Take A Whizz on em !!! That really chaps my ass !!! >>>>.
It's always fun when someone acts like you should be grateful they're offering you some ridiculous lowball price for your car. Like you're some kind of charity for broke-ass ratrodders or something. Heck I had a guy on here want to trade me stuff for a car, when it finally came down to it all he wanted was the cowl from this Model A. I put it together as a package with enough parts to pretty well make a whole car from. What am I going to do with it with no cowl? So he comes back that he was going to pay me $400 for the cowl. I'm not sure who's leg he was pissing on, mine, or his - I've bought Model A cowls for as little as $20 and a lot closer to him than I am (Rhinebeck one year), you aught to be able to buy them all day for less than half of $400. Plus this is the first mention of money, before that it was a trade. Some days I want to just crush them all so no one gets anything.
I like how the internet gives some people balls to try shit they wouldn't (at least I hope) try in real life. I had my old '53 up for sale for 6k, and a guy emailed me an offer of $3500 because "You are never going to get that kind of money for that car, and my offer was the highest you'll see" I replied the next day, after a cool dude had given me the asking price no problem, telling him that I was sorry to decline his offer, but the $6000 in $100 bills in my hand said otherwise.
of course there's the guy from Nigeria who wants to send someone over from there,pay by cashiers check, and pay 2000 more then it's worth if you will please sell it to him,sight unseen, he will ship it back. and of course they "cann'tt spel" yaaaa sure!!! had one of them offer to send me 2000 dollars for a 20 dollar item,of course it was a cashiers check, and i had to cash it and send part of it back. I told him it would be fine after my friend at the FBI looked it over and verified it, never heard another word.
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