What's my car worth?

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You didn't' ASK your question that way.....you didn't say you'd already
quoted a price.....you don't deserve an opinion beyond the excellent advice
you were given - and which you chose to trash. A polite "thank you" would
have made you look more like someone worth wasting bandwidth over. You
didn't do that, and you're not worth wasting any more bandwidth over.
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Then why in the world are you still whingeing on? You're acting like a baby
without its nap. I'm sure there are people who post here who understood what I
was asking. You aren't one of them, so please move on. No one's forced you to
make your several nasty posts on this thread.
 
Subject: Re: What's my car worth?
Well...

From the ground up, there's a lot of missing info. How are the tires?
How's the paint? How's the mechanical reliability? How is the a/c
working? Are there any leaks? Have all maintenence records been kept
up to date? And so many more...
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Hi. Thatnks for the response. I did actually talk about most of this, except,
I think, the air conditioner, which needs to be recharged. To recap the rest,
the tires are all new last month, the paint is good and there's no rust, the
mechanical reliability is top notch, there are no leaks, the maintenance
records are all there, and the car was given another check up by a Volvo
mechanic last month, when the tires were replaced.

Yes, you asked for an opinion as to the value, you were told that
without seeing it, no one could give you a good opinion. Without
knowing your market, we can't give an opinion. Without a good pre-sale
mechanical evaluation, no one should even try. Bev gave a very good
piece of advice that I am sure many would not have even thought of, take
it to someone for a professional evaluation of the resale value, then
you can decide if the deal you gave your brother-in-law was good or not.
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Were I advetising the car for sale, I would have done that. I'm not -- I'm
making a private family deal -- and I was interested in the opinions of others
with similar experience.

You did present this as if you had not decided how much to sell the car
for. Now we find out you just wanted to know if you got ripped off or,
just maybe, you were making an enemy of a family member.
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How would I be ripped off if I'm the one setting the price? I wanted to know
if other Volvo owners thought the price I was setting was fair so I could
adjust it downward if not. There was never a question of anyone being an
enemy.

You should
have presentred this as, "Hey. I just offered to sell my old ride for
$9999. It's got 400,000 miles on it butr runs like a dream (okj more
like a nightmare). The paint is peeling everywhere, but it does have
the added benefit of not being able to see the bug splatter very well.
And you don't even need to open the doors to grab something off the
road, just reach through the floorboards! So, is that a deal or am I
getting sctewed?" There would have been more info and a more accurate
idea of what you were doing.
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I gave a very thorough description and explained the situation.

Instead, you just asked for price
opinions, making sound like you weren't sure and wanted a price before
you made an offer.
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Again, I'm not making an offer on anything, and I did ask for price opinions
because that's what I want. I've asked for and received very good and helpful
advice and opinions from the people on this board before. Why I'm getting all
the nastiness and bile this time around is a bit of a mystery.
 
Subject: Re: What's my car worth?
From: Tim McNamara [email protected]
Date: 6/27/2004 7:54 AM Central Daylight Time
Message-id: <[email protected]>



Then you're being way overly sensitive. Bev is a solid regular
contributor to this newsgroup and gave you the best advice you're
going to get, right down to possibly getting the appraisal done for
free by even giving you the name of the peson to talk to, fer Pete's
sake.


Seeing it. Driving it. Kicking the tires. Listening to the engine
and the transmission, feeling the brakes and the steering. Can't do
those things over the Internet. None of us are clairvoyant.
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Apparently you're not a lot of things, including polite or helpful. Again, if
you didn't have an answer, you should have just skipped the question.
 
PButler111 said:
Please don't anyone else give me an answer like this.
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1) There is no answer to your question!
2) You appear to be the center of your world
3) Take a course social skills
4) Responds that don't fit your needs seems to frustate you. (read a book
about how to raise your kids)
5) This NG isn't a gathering of really bad and evil people.

I hereby rest my case.

Lane
 
Subject: Re: What's my car worth?
From: "Lane" [email protected]
Date: 6/27/2004 3:15 PM Central Daylight Time
Message-id: <[email protected]>



1) There is no answer to your question!
2) You appear to be the center of your world
3) Take a course social skills
4) Responds that don't fit your needs seems to frustate you. (read a book
about how to raise your kids)
5) This NG isn't a gathering of really bad and evil people.

I hereby rest my case.

Lane
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Thank christ this isn't a capital case or you would have surely been dead
halfway through your first "point." If you had no answer to the question, then
you should have simply skipped it. Your response was both literally and
figuratively uncalled for.
 
Apparently you're not a lot of things, including polite or helpful.
Again, if you didn't have an answer, you should have just skipped
the question.
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At least I'm not a self-entitled asshole who can't comprehend and
doesn't know what politeness is.
 
Then why in the world are you still whingeing on? You're acting
like a baby without its nap. I'm sure there are people who post
here who understood what I was asking.
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And yet oddly none of those people has answered your question. Maybe
because you're being such a prick about it?
 
Your response was both literally and figuratively uncalled for.
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Whereas of course your poisonous attacks on almost every single person
who responded were perfectly reasonable. Are you this much of a jerk
in person, too? ROTFL!

Since you're not going to get the answer you're looking for, I guess
it's time for you to move on, eh?
 
If you had no answer to the question, then
you should have simply skipped it.
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^^^^^^

Should?!!! No offense, but you don't control someone else's ability to
respond to a post on Usenet. Whether his/her response is relevant to
your query is also something you don't control. Guess what you do
control? Your posts, and your responses.

In that context, your use of "should" in place of "could" is
presumptuous.
 
Subject: Re: What's my car worth?
From: "Bev A. Kupf" [email protected]
Date: 6/27/2004 6:42 PM Central Daylight Time
Message-id: <[email protected]>


^^^^^^

Should?!!! No offense, but you don't control someone else's ability to
respond to a post on Usenet. Whether his/her response is relevant to
your query is also something you don't control. Guess what you do
control? Your posts, and your responses.

In that context, your use of "should" in place of "could" is
presumptuous.
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So is your snotty, self-righteous attitude, but there you are.
 
If you treat your cars like you treat people, I wouldn't give you a nickel for
any car you've ever owned.

Randy
 
Subject: Re: What's my car worth?
From: [email protected] (Randy S)
Date: 6/28/2004 10:12 AM Central Daylight Time
Message-id: <[email protected]>

If you treat your cars like you treat people, I wouldn't give you a nickel
for
any car you've ever owned.

Randy
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If you jump to conclusions in real life the way you do on usenet, I would guess
you wouldn't have a nickel to give.
 
PButler111 said:
If you jump to conclusions in real life the way you do on usenet, I would guess
you wouldn't have a nickel to give.
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Your behavior puzzled me (forgive me) but I think I know.
You're looking for contacts and conversations for IRL you're lacking them.
Please continue responding, so we all can amuse ourselves. You fooled us
all.

Lane
 
Subject: Re: What's my car worth?
From: "Lane" [email protected]
Date: 6/28/2004 12:42 PM Central Daylight Time
Message-id: <[email protected]>



Your behavior puzzled me (forgive me) but I think I know.
You're looking for contacts and conversations for IRL you're lacking them.
Please continue responding, so we all can amuse ourselves. You fooled us
all.

Lane
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I have no idea who you are or what you're talking about. I asked a question of
a group from whom I normally get polite, informative, helpful responses. This
time a few of you decided to be thoroughgoing jackasses. I dont' know why you
did, but you did. Those with helpful things to say felt the need to email me
privately for fear of getting attacked by you lot as well. How proud you must
be. Now why don't you go get ready so swoop down on the next person who comes
by and asks a well-meaning question. It seems to be the only way you can feel
good about yourself, if only momentarily.

*plonk*
 
Wow, what a bitch. :D
I have no idea who you are or what you're talking about. I asked a question
of
a group from whom I normally get polite, informative, helpful responses.
This
time a few of you decided to be thoroughgoing jackasses. I dont' know why
you
did, but you did. Those with helpful things to say felt the need to email me
privately for fear of getting attacked by you lot as well. How proud you
must
be. Now why don't you go get ready so swoop down on the next person who
comes
by and asks a well-meaning question. It seems to be the only way you can
feel
good about yourself, if only momentarily.

*plonk*
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PButler111 said:
So -- given all that -- what do you think is a fair price for this
car?
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The car's worth what someone's willing to pay for it. Whatever the going
rate is on ebay / whatever magazine cars get advertised in where you are -
whatever you'd be likely to haggle off the price.
 
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