Craigslist reply - Helpful advice or smarta$$?

[CobyRupert]

My old HS Biology teacher "Bucky Bob" was also an antique dealer. He always said.. when people say something is worth X I always tell them it is worth whatever you can get out of it!

Some logic there... sucker born every minute !

:thumbsup:

 

[BigBoyToys]

At the end of the day no matter what it is...it's only worth what someone is willing to pay!
I wouldn't waste my time going back and forth with someone who wasn't interested in buying it.

I bought my 06 B3030 with only 241 hours off Craigslist last summer. Included FEL, backhoe, a Kubota ballast box with 600# of weights and a custom made aerator. Guy was asking $19,500 we both agreed $18K was a fair price and called it a day.

 

[rtimgray]

I don't know which is worse - that you spent the time and effort to have that conversation with someone about a craigslist item, or that I have read 22 posts about it.

I think you should get whatever the market will bear for it. If you find the right buyer once, that's all you need! Not disputing the history of the item at all, but in the end it is only worth what someone will pay for it. I run across that with old guns a lot. Some supposedly have historical value, but I doubt it. The general rule is "Buy the item, not the story."

Good luck with your sale and renovation.

Good luck and take care.

 

[California]

If it's worth $500 to you, then definitely don't sell it for $75. That is, if it's worth more to you the seller than it is to a buyer, you should (and will) keep it.)

That's hard to accept, in practice. I sure didn't need three tractors. Nothing wrong with the excess one, it just didn't have a loader like it's twin or the larger tractor. So it had to go, eventually for less than all the comparables I saw listed. Took me a year to accept that and get it moved out of here.

I've generally won the gamble and come out ok buying stuff on CL. But selling this excess tractor, I was on the wrong side of the bargain. Later the buyer was so proud of his purchase he sent me photos of it repainted and showing real pride of ownership. I guess I should be happy for him ....

 

[TractorGuy]

I have purchased a couple of my implements by running WTB ads on CL. I had one jerk reply with a smart azz comment about me wanting something new for nothing. He didn't say if he had what I was looking for or not. This was in response to a WTB disc harrow ad. I guess he had one that was gold plated he no longer needed. In reality my ad said nothing about wanting something new for nothing but stated it should not have any rusted out parts and listed the price range I was willing to pay. I have a very heavy duty disc harrow I bought for $275 and a pretty decent brush hog I got for $300 as a result of those ads. It seems people trying to sell things are usually wanting more than people wanting stuff gone that might read a WTB ad.

 

[hawkeye08]

I sold a snowmobile on CL a few years ago... It was not running but a somewhat rare race model. It had a expensive clutch that was sought after by grass racers. If I had taken it to the summer snowmobile drags and had it for sale, I could have gotten $500 for it. I had it sitting on a pallet in my shop on the pallet forks on my tractor, ready to load. A teenager responded to ad and came over at agreed upon time... I was asking $100 and he was willing to pay it, but his grandfather was along and coaching him to offer much less... We settled on $50, I loaded it quickly and thanked them. They got a smoking deal, I got rid of something I had no more use for... I would have given it to them before I would let them leave empty handed. It would have cost me to haul it to the dump... win win.

 

[Turbys_1700]

I've had good luck with Craigslist...
I'm in the process of selling my 5' box blade now...
I first listed a selling price but later removed it...
I gave the contact info if folks were interested...
I priced it to sell and decided my bottom dollar number...
I had 3 low ball offers and politely told them no...
Guy e-mail yesterday offering $20 under my low ball and I said no...
Guy yesterday called from the area and is dropping by tomorrow to pick it up at my price...
It's all about timing, price, and location...
And not in any particular order...

 

[KennyG]

I keep an eye on CraigsList for interesting stuff. There are always a few ads that have outlandish prices and clearly are just looking for windfall. I ignore them. There is an ad for a JD CUT front blade for $995 than has been on the listings for well over a year. There's another for a selection of 10 used tractors that has been reposted for over 2 years with no change. I could list a dozen or more that just keep coming back. Maybe they'll eventually find that one special buyer.

 

[bcp]

I'll bet some of the high CL prices are due to the wife demanding "Sell that junk!" and he is saying" It's been posted for months and no one wants it."

Bruce

 

[TractorGuy]

I have bought and sold a lot of stuff on CL. It surprises me how far away people will search and travel for some items.

I have had a race car for sale for almost a year and advertised it on all the forums where I thought I would find a relevant buyer. Finally had it down to give away pricing and some guy off one of the forums offered me a low ball offer under that and I said I would take it if he was first there with the money. Then he added all kinds of kinks like wanting to find a place to test drive it and wanted me to take off work on Thursday to meet him and so on.

I also listed the car on CL and low and behold some fellas from Texas called and wanted to pick it up on Saturday at my asking price. That didn't work out exactly as planned due to hurricane evacuation traffic but they wired me the money on Thursday and I ended up meeting them 250 miles away for another $200. I texted the first guy and let him know he lost out and the car got sold.

A few years back I had a set of cylinder heads on CL for months without any interest. Eventually some guy from Virginia called up and drove all the way to Tallahassee to meet me and buy those. You just never know.