I Hate Selling Cars!!!

[turbowannabe]

Just like the title says, I HATE SELLING CARS. Seems like everyone just wants to screw you around. I have a guy that I'm about 75% or more sure is going to be buying the car. He was supposed to pick it up on saturday but couldn't get a truck and trailer on such short notice since he looked at it on wednesday.
On Friday I posted on my for sale thread about the car being sold very soon after that I have two "potential buyers" that post phone numbers for me to call saying they have cash and are ready to buy. One of the people even makes me look bad by claiming he has been trying to buy the car from me for a week and can't understand why I sold it to someone else. First thing is that The guy had never even attempted to contact me through any other web site or email so I don't know where this claim of trying to buy the car for a week is incorrect. The next problem is that the phone numbers both people left me do not work. One phone number is a fax machine and the other one is not even in service.
Are people just deliberatly messing with me for fun or what ????? I just don't understand why people would do this kind of thing and why selling a car has to be such a messed up deal. Sorry for the long post but I had to vent a little bit.

-Dan

 

[darkred87T]

I feel your pain.These people come out of the wood work when you are trying to sell your car. When I was selling my 2002 WS6 I posted it on LS1.com Performance & Technical Information. The value of the car was $24,000 in KBB when you added the options. The car was only a year old, had 14,000 miles on it and was LOADED!... M6, Metallic Blue paint, beigh leather, Ram Air, T-tops, ect....

Anyhow, people would look up a base model Trans Am on Edmunds, then they would sabatoge my thread by saying the book value was only $16,000. I wound up selling it to a freind of my father's for $22K.
Good luck and don't let the NON serious buyers bother you.

 

[ChrisCairns]

Here's a suggestion. Put in your ad that the first person to show up with a cashier's check or cash in hand buys it. And that you won't "hold" it on a promise. Cash talks, bullschit walks.

With that said, most people don't have $10,000 (or whatever the price is) laying around and must apply for financing. That involves you HAVING to hold the car while waiting for bank approval, which may or may not be forthcoming. And if someone shows up with cash in hand while you're holding it for the borrower dude, you are under a moral obligation to continue to hold it.

I think the sale would depend on how much hassle you'll put up with, and how fast you want to sell it.

 

[Quick6'n'-K.C.]

I agree with Chris on this one, money talks, and the paperwork gets signed over to the first one who has the cash!

If someone claims that they have been trying to get ahold of you for over a week, surely they could have emailed or called you with their correct number, and actually worked out the deal.

Ive been keeping up with the other thread, seems to me that if someone was really serious about buying a car, they would have been at your doorstep once the deal was struck.

Dont worry about it one bit!

BW

 

[Grumpy]

ya like everyone said "show me the $$$"

 

[jdpolzin]

I hear ya Dan, when I was selling my 39K car, I had a guy from Colorado tell me he wanted it for sure and I told 3 definate buyer that the car was sold. Then after talking for a week he tells me he doesnt want it. Then I put it on E-bay and the bid was $200 away from the reserve, the guy calls again and tells me wants it and will be ther to pick it up 2 days later. Me, being a nice guy, I tell him not to worry about a deposit and pull it from e-bay. Guy tells me he is coming and then the day he was supposed to get the car, calls me and tells me it wasnt feasable to drive from Colorado te buy a car he has never seen, even though he had a million pics. So I lost out on many buyers and had to pay E-bay fees and had to pay to re-list it. The guy never even offered to help out with the money I lost out on. Luckily, the guy that ended up buying it was an awesome guy and brings the car to my meets!!

 

[SS_Sean]

I hate selling cars, too. I ended up selling my 2002 Camaro SS back to a dealership in 2004 for $17,000. It only had 22k miles on it, with a lot of nice mod's. Couldn't find a buyer for it.

Sold my 1970 Chevelle SS396, completely restofied for $26k, but had to deal with a stream of tire kickers, and *******z. I even had one guy start yelling at me on the phone, accusing me of trying to sell a clone.

 

[SVORay]

Here's a suggestion. Put in your ad that the first person to show up with a cashier's check or cash in hand buys it. And that you won't "hold" it on a promise. Cash talks, bullschit walks.

DITTO!!


This is something I learned years ago when selling cars. I had a '68 Chevy SWB I had in the Thrifty Nickle for sale. This guy came out twice and looked at it. The second time he said he would buy it and would show up the following Saturday with a trailor. This was early in the week. So I called up the paper and cancled the ad. That following Saturday they guy showed up with a trailor just like he said he would. This time around he had a friend with him and they looked the truck over for a few minutes. Then the guy told me the deal was off and left I was completely up front with eveything I knbew about that truck and all my cars. I would rather someone be happy than to sell them a vehicle that wouldn't make them happy. Heck, I've been known to try and talk people out of buying my cars. My SVO is one of those cars. This girl was 16 years old and wanted a Mustang like her BF's. I told her parents this isn't a first time driver type of car. You have to always be working on it and parts are rare. I told them you'd be better off buying her a V6 stang instead. The dad drove it down the block and back never even seen a pound of boost. I said ok, maybe I can scare them out of it...I took her and her BF for a spin around the block boosting 15psi Well her parents ended up buying the car anyways.