You need to loose your attitude!
What āattitudeā was that?
@VOLVO-V70 gave you good advice;
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If youāre looking at a car thatās 12 years old has 185k miles on it, then you definitely want to take it in for a pre-purchase inspection to a mechanic of your choice. Expect to pay $70-$120 depending on where you live. This can potentially save your from big headaches down the road.
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People selling used cars for under market value, particularly used cars that have a reputation for reliability and economical operation, knows what they have and knows they have no shortage of protentional customers, so they probably arenāt going spend much time going back and forth with a single customer about questions the customer has. The seller knows that he/she will be able to unload the car in a day or two at the price they are asking. Itās nothing personal.
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With all that said, even for a base model 2008 Civic with 185k on the clock, the $1800 is less than half of what the NADA value is. That should raise some red flags. Iād wager that it does have something or some things wrong with it. Maybe itās salvage title, maybe itās been wrecked a couple times, maybe the seller doesnāt have the title, maybe itās repo, or all of the above. Iād run the Carfax before I made an offer, and while Carfax wonāt catch everything, itāll probably catch major stuff like the being totaled at some point.
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I also donāt know what type of attitude it might have been, but apparently it is ālooseā.
Perhaps he can find a wrench, and tighten it, because otherwise he might lose it!
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Yeah, it could have something wrong with it.
I told her weād see it back on Facebook , she said she was okay with that as a matter of fact a friend of hers was thinking of buying it and clean it up a little bit and resell it so itās hard to tell she said the guy came and got it and put it on a trailer paid cash and took it sounds like a dealer to me.
Itās hard to tell the way she was talking it was and good condition but, then again maybe there was something wrong with it. I can almost guarantee you the guy put it on a trailer and took it he was a dealer well good for him. maybe I have sour grapes but Iāve been stuck in the house for 3 months without a car, and most of the stuff that shows up is either a bunch of junk or too far away and I have no one to ride me to look at a car I would have been able to take a cab, as it was local.
I am disabled and donāt have a lot of money so I say the rich keep getting richer thank you for your thoughts.
Rent a car. Leave car at rental office. Drive your sweet Honda back. I have aaa 200 mile tow. Is it less then 200 miles?
Yeah, thatās the reaction of a guy whoās dealt with too much BS trying to sell a car online. Itās not really a reaction to what you said, but guaranteed heās had about 40 scammers asking him quasi-legit sounding questions and then telling him that theyāll send him a cashierās check and have their agent pick the car up. Heās wasted a lot of time dealing with people screwing around with him, and from his perspective youāre probably just another one, even though you arenāt.
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Everyone who has ran an ad to sell a vehicle has had enough nonsense calls that they wonder why they ever even thought about doing that.
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Yeah, Iām a real glutton for punishment. I did it twice in the span of 12 months. I was nearly homicidal at the end of the 2nd one.
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+1
I sold two of my old cars, many years ago, via newspaper want-ads. The number of bizarre callers, and people who didnāt bother to show up, was so annoying that I resolved to never again sell my old cars myself.
Iāve sold 10 cars in 3 yrs. no issues. Part I hate is buying. Find a great deal and miss out. Show up with cash. Bs walks
I am not familiar with the operation of ācar flippersā because I have never sold a car that still runs. Any time I have gotten rid of a car, the next owner has always been a junkyard or insurance company.
I have, however, sold several laptops on Craigslist, and twice I saw the same exact laptop (same scratches and other distinguishing marks) for sale at more than twice the priceāloaded with pirated software. I pity the fools who bought from those resellers, just as I pity the fools who buy from ācar flippersā.
what reason do you have to believe that cars sold by car flippers are in terrible shape, or have had substandard repairs and/or maintenance performed . . . ?!
I like cars that have never required repairs.
Well, that would have been fine but the bank was closed.
I really wasnāt asking her a bunch of stupid questions, I just wanted to know if I should put a timing belt on it, but found out they went to a timing chain.
I would have just gotten a cab,
(Didnāt need to rent no car)
went to the bank, but like I said, I could only get 300.00 per day out of the bank.
"Money talks, B/S walks"
I wasn't giving the seller any "B/S".
She said they would even drive the car home for me, cause they still had insurance and plates on it.
Again, I just didn't have
1,800.00 on me,
Itās just that Iāve been stuck at home for about 3 months, just been getting to me.
Some people have been stuck at home for a lot longer than 3 months . . .
my mom, for example
sheās just about going stir crazy
Because they are usually cars that went to auctionand drew no interest from regular dealers and so sold at a low price. They are then sold at retail by someone with no shop with a story to explain why the name on the title is not that of the seller who does not have a license to sell cars and is not paying tax on his profits. Lots of luck finding him after the sale.
I do not consider a mechanic who buys cars that need work, fixes and sells them a flipper or curbsider. Many mechanics with uneven business do this so they have something profitable to do when they have no paying customers.
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Well, I was trying to be diplomatic . . .
The last time I said something āunflatteringā about curbstoners, one of the other regulars jumped down my throat
that other guy had some valid points, but he went WAY overboard in defense of curbstoners, in my opinion
Curbstoner is new to me. Define please. One who sits on the curb and gets stoned? Though right now it would mean sitting on a 2 foot windrow of snow. Yeah I know oscar the grouch would say google it, why ask a forum, so I did, person selling used cars? Some of us like conversion, textual as it may be.
seriously?
Curbstoners are illegal , unlicensed used car dealers who sell cars from the " curb " rather than from a dealership. They usually pretend the cars are their personal vehicles . Many curbstoner cars are salvage vehicles . Others are too dangerous to drive, and some could even be stolen.
That was a cut-and-paste
Those arenāt my words . . .
Iām in partial disagreement with some of that cut-and-paste
As far as I know, in most areas a person is allowed to sell a certain number of cars privately per year, without having to obtain a dealerās license
I donāt have any comments on the rest of the cut-and-paste
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