Sign to be put on my car tomorrow.
"NOT For Sale. 1999 Honda Civic. 3 1/2 speed transmission (1st,2nd, 4th{sometimes,} and 5th. Ratty leather interior. Worth maybe $200 as-is. I am fixing it, it is my toy and pastime. If you want it enough to give my $2000.00 CASH/FIRM as-is, OK. Otherwise, stop knocking on my door.
At least once every weekend, somebody knocks on my door and asks about it. I don’t mind the one timers, but for the last three days, the same guys have come by.
Paraphrased conversation:
THEM: Want to sell that Honda?
ME: No. I work on it when I get the money and time.
T: We’ll give you $300 for it.
M: It’s not for sale.
NEXT DAY:
T: I’ll give you $400 for that Honda.
M: Sorry, It’s not for sale.
T: How about $450?
YESTERDAY
T: We want to buy that Honda. Give you $500 for it.
M: Tell you what. You can have it for $2000.
T: Going to put a tranny it for that?
M: No, two grand as-is. I don’t want to sell it. If you love it enough to give me $2000.00, you love it even more then I do and you deserve it. Until then, STOP BUGGING ME!
This car is special to me. When I’m done, I want my kids to learn to drive in it. It was the first car I ever got completely on my own. I don’t mind you asking if it’s for sale, but stop bitching when I tell you what it’ll cost, not what it’s “worth.”
I don’t get it. Why would people drive around trying to buy junkers out of people’s driveways? Aren’t there entire neighborhoods where there are more junkers than blades of grass on the lawn?
I don’t get it either. My Honda was once a nice little car. Hondas are known to be pretty much bullet proof. But I don’t understand peoples obsession with mine. I understand MY obsession, but not anybody’s outside my household.
Apparently it’s a thing, my brother got a knock at the door too and ended up selling his busted old car for more than it was worth to him.
These a stage between ‘not good enough to run’ and ‘bad enough to haul to the junkyard’ and many vehicles linger there from sentimental attachment far longer than they aught.
I believe everything can possibly be for sale, sign or no. My house isn’t for sale but if tomorrow someone offered $3M for it, I’d sell in a heartbeat.
But how would you feel about a steady stream of strangers continually ringing your doorbell just to offer you, say, a couple hundred thousand for it?
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I believe just about everything has a price.
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Maybe so, but that doesn’t mean that the owner is interested in being continually interrupted and pestered to sell for a significantly lower price.
Sure, if the Massive Overpayment Fairy suddenly appears in a glitter of stardust and offers me ten times the item’s value, we can probably make a deal, and that would be very nice. That doesn’t mean that I’m happy to be constantly fielding half-assed mingy offers from an apparently limitless battalion of Cheap Schlub Elves.
What he said. If someone had come to my door offering 10 grand for my gas guzzling truck, I’d have sold it in a heartbeat. Folks who felt like they could knock on my door early on a Saturday morning and then offer me 500 bucks for it just got the door slammed. Honestly, I’d rather have a bible thumper bother me than an idiot like that.
Those people are why I stopped opening the door unless I knew who was out there.
The way you’re describing it, you’re undervaluing it at $2,000 :). But if you would genuinely accept this figure for it offered, fair enough. Personally, I’d hold out for $5,000.
By the way, this is in response to the OP. In response to Budget Player Cadet - I don’t think I’d settle for less than $100m.
Maybe a regional thing? I’ve owned four Honda Civics in my life. ranging from good condition to more like the OP’s project car, and nobody (stranger or acquaintance) has ever asked me if I wanted to sell one. Nor with any other car or motorcycle I’ve ever owned.
Cool. I’ll take it. $1000 dollars, a new stereo, and a Honda Civic?!? Or did you mean you’ll give me a grand ** for the car** if I put a tape player in it?
Them: We want that Honda - how about $300
DT 668: $2,000
T: How about $400?
D: $3,000
T: What? Look, it’s not worth more than $500
D: $10,000 Final offer.
I have a 2002 Accord. I get unsolicited offers in the form of a handwritten note on my windshield a couple of times a year. I think that it is mainly that Hondas have a very long shelf life.