I was having a "text conversation" with someone locally who advertised a 1st gen CRX.
He asked me how much I was offering for the car without me seeing it. Funnily enough, since I texted him back that I wasn't going to make an offer unless I had seen the car, I haven't heard back from him...
That's not suspicious one bit.
Someone asked me that about a truck once, I gave them about a $2.5k spread of prices.
Matt B wrote: That's not suspicious one bit.
Na, clearly completely legit.
I dunno, I'd of offered a dollar, sight unseen.
As strange as people can be, the offer might have been real.
that's how I bought my E36. He texted me that he needed it gone tomorrow, what was my lowest offer without seeing the car (granted, he had a lot of pics). Undercut his asking price by $2500 and he accepted. He drove the car up to me and we exchanged paperwork and title in the Loan Max parking lot that was about to repossess it lol. I paid Loan Max $2200 and gave the owner $300 cash. Still the best car deal I've ever been a part of.
In this case, the pics look like they've been taken with a bad phone camera in the middle of a moonless night. OK, I'm exaggerating a little but the photos are, shall we say, non-conclusive. I don't like people who make offers over the phone without seeing a car so I wasn't going to be one of "those" people myself.
yeah, I can understand that scenario. I generally dislike craigslist to begin with because of the hassle that goes along with it. Why can't people just be normal and not shady?
I just bought an RX-8 where the situation was like that. He wanted an offer before he showed me the car. I just said, "I'll start at (market value) and go down from there, depending on what I find."
I bought the car a lot lower than he was asking, and it was completely legitimate. I think he was just applying a bullE36 M3 filter to people that called him or something.
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