"Just wear your damn mask..." (jimal)
04/14/2016 at 16:17 • Filed to: None
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"Just wear your damn mask..." (jimal)
04/14/2016 at 16:17 • Filed to: None | 0
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It all happened so quickly.
I wasn’t expecting to be writing Part 5 yet. It was just yesterday that I accidentally solved the problem with the DSC light and installed the eBay mirror I picked up over the winter. In fact, trying to take cool pictures for the Craig’s List ad was more of a struggle than actually selling the car, but only slightly, because it didn’t matter.
After taking the car to the local gas station to fill the tank and run it through the car wash, I started hunting out some interesting place to take pictures. My first thought was the abandoned brass factory on the north end of town, but on my way to the gas station I passed by this unoccupied warehouse that had on the property this cool little garage shed thing that was perfect.
So heading back to my house I pulled onto the property, did a quick circle to line myself just right, and was greeted by the World’s Fastest Security Guard™. Seriously, he rolled up out of no where. The conversation was almost as quick.
“Can I help you?”
“Yeah, uh, I was just going to take a couple pictures of the car in front of...”
“I’m sorry, but no one is allowed on the property. You’re going to have to leave.”
Shucks.
Ended up going to the park where I run in the morning (and by “run in the morning”, I mean where I ran for the first time in almost a year yesterday) where I was able to take some fine pictures - 24 in fact - and head home to write up my ad.
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At this point things start getting a bit anticlimactic. I had visions of posting all of the crazy replies and scam solicitations I received from the ad, and about the “People of Walmart” nature of selling on CL, but apart from one ridiculous low ball offer, it was pretty boring. I posted the ad, asking $2,500 for the car, at 3:44pm. At 3:57, I received my first response, from a guy about an hour from me. I received six responses, including the lower baller, between yesterday and this morning. The first guy stopped by this afternoon, took the car for a quick ride around the block, gave me my asking price and went on his merry way.
The first reaction anyone has to something selling that quick and for the selling price is, “Idiot, you didn’t ask enough”. Possibly, but I actually priced the car higher than other similar cars in the area, in an attempt to recover some of the money I put into reconditioning the car for sale. This isn’t a car I had any emotional connection to (it was my mother-in-law’s), so I priced it to market, the market responded, and now it is home with its new owner.
And so ends Hooptie or Honest Car. Now go sell your car.
Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> Just wear your damn mask...
04/14/2016 at 16:27 |
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Someone is always going to say that you should have listed it for more blerrrr. Well a bird in the hand beats two in the bush. Congrats!
Steve in Manhattan
> Just wear your damn mask...
04/14/2016 at 16:55 |
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And so it is with everything, as we are finding out. If the apartment (we’re shopping for one) is priced right, it’s gone in a day or two. A great one came up recently, but we were in Japan. Oh well ....
PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
> Just wear your damn mask...
04/15/2016 at 00:07 |
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I just sold my 525i project the other day! literally all I did was wash and wax it, clean it’s interior, and replace a wheel bearing.
car was $550
bearing was like $25
sold for $1040.
not a bad profit for literally no work