akylekoz
akylekoz SuperDork
8/26/21 9:10 a.m.
Aaron_King
Aaron_King GRM+ Memberand PowerDork
8/26/21 12:16 p.m.

So sexy.

billstewartx
billstewartx New Reader
8/27/21 12:59 p.m.

WHY do people put a $42,000 dollar  car on Facebook marketplace?!?!? 

wearymicrobe
wearymicrobe PowerDork
8/27/21 1:25 p.m.
billstewartx said:

WHY do people put a $42,000 dollar  car on Facebook marketplace?!?!? 

I have sold 6 figure cars on Facebook Marketplace. Craiglist is a ghost town and AutoTrader and the rest online are garbage as well for lead generation. 

dherr (Forum Supporter)
dherr (Forum Supporter) GRM+ Memberand Dork
8/27/21 2:51 p.m.

Interesting thing about Facebook Marketplace is it is both the place to find deals and the place for high dollar transactions. Agree that craigslist is dead at this point and many of the other sites are scams. 

billstewartx
billstewartx New Reader
8/27/21 8:37 p.m.
wearymicrobe said:
billstewartx said:

WHY do people put a $42,000 dollar  car on Facebook marketplace?!?!? 

I have sold 6 figure cars on Facebook Marketplace. Craiglist is a ghost town and AutoTrader and the rest online are garbage as well for lead generation. 

uh, what 6 figure cars???!? 

wearymicrobe
wearymicrobe PowerDork
8/27/21 10:23 p.m.
billstewartx said:
wearymicrobe said:
billstewartx said:

WHY do people put a $42,000 dollar  car on Facebook marketplace?!?!? 

I have sold 6 figure cars on Facebook Marketplace. Craiglist is a ghost town and AutoTrader and the rest online are garbage as well for lead generation. 

uh, what 6 figure cars???!? 

I have had more then a few cars, R8 Spyder's, Viper's, vintage Ferrari's stuff like that. I buy and sell cars on the side so yeah Facebook as terrible as it is is what I use. Not a lot of high dollar stuff in the garage now I got burned out on the exotic sales side of things but tons of classic and race cars. Hell I found a Aventador for a client once through a Facebook group. 

 

 

Pete Gossett (Forum Supporter)
Pete Gossett (Forum Supporter) GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
8/28/21 5:31 a.m.

In reply to wearymicrobe :

You still have the Baja Bug? 

BoxheadTim
BoxheadTim GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
8/28/21 9:18 a.m.
billstewartx said:

WHY do people put a $42,000 dollar  car on Facebook marketplace?!?!? 

Because there doesn't seem to be an alternative, at least not outside the curated places like BaT.

Everything else, as wearymicrobe said, has turned into pretty useless lead generation fodder and/or is a ghost town. I still check certain forums for leads on potential purchases, but outside the PCA Mart and BMWMOA marketplace, I noticed that a lot of the actual forums often show links to FB posts.

It's kindasorta funny to me that the UK competition authorities are looking at FB's purchase of Giphy for monopoly reasons, when they probably should look at some of the other services like Marketplace instead. Oh well, rant over to avoid going political.

I also wish that FB would fix their dang search, because it being helpful is anything but.

wearymicrobe
wearymicrobe PowerDork
8/28/21 10:10 a.m.
Pete Gossett (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to wearymicrobe :

You still have the Baja Bug? 

It is like my favorite car right now. Its just stupid fun, once I pulled the turbo off it and converted it to pump gas from E85 it just settled down into a really good off road car. To put things in context I turned down a really good deal on a LP720 to keep it as I am completely out of garage space. 

Best of all it got me back on a bike in a weird sort of way. I borrowed a little 125 dirt bike and that turned into the Harley which turned into me looking at a CRF250L rally which may be coming home today.  

Pete Gossett (Forum Supporter)
Pete Gossett (Forum Supporter) GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
8/28/21 10:44 a.m.

In reply to wearymicrobe :

That's awesome! I've always loved watching the Baja & SCORE race footage, hopefully once we start heading out west I'll be able to catch a race sometime. 

eurotechms
eurotechms New Reader
8/30/21 9:47 a.m.

In reply to billstewartx :

I wouldn't sell a 4200 dollar car on FB Marketplace:) Ebay is still the best bet overall. Ebay is garbage also but I make the most money on there with most of it being shipped. 

OjaiM5
OjaiM5 HalfDork
8/30/21 3:26 p.m.

Too bad this one is auto. I am interested in what it will sell for

https://carsandbids.com/auctions/rEeGql5d/2006-aston-martin-db9-coupe

914Driver
914Driver MegaDork
8/30/21 3:46 p.m.

In reply to wearymicrobe :

My man-card is in the mail, it's yours .....

DrBoost
DrBoost MegaDork
8/31/21 4:33 a.m.

I saw Casey talking about this car on VINWIKI. I'd LOVE to own such a beauty 

Fueled by Caffeine
Fueled by Caffeine MegaDork
8/31/21 11:41 a.m.

I like these but not this color. I want black or silver or brg. 

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