# NOT For Sale...under $2000.00
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-sale-under-2000-00/699924
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [September 30, 2014, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-sale-under-2000-00/699924 "2014-09-30T01:09:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@D.E.S.K.Top668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.E.S.K.Top668)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2014, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-sale-under-2000-00/699924/1 "2014-09-30T01:09:38Z")
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.”
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### Author:  [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2014, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-sale-under-2000-00/699924/2 "2014-09-30T01:24:32Z")
Okay - now I see the pitting. Last sentence of the first paragraph. _ **Flame On!** _
Second gear to fifth gear at times. Awesome.
(Driving a 22-year-old car that I love working on when needed.)
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### Author:  [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2014, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-sale-under-2000-00/699924/3 "2014-09-30T01:34:02Z")
Even without the emotional attachment, I sure do get why you are upset. If the vehicle doesn’t have a for sale sign, its not for sale.
I used to drive a '65 chevy pick-up and had people knock on my door on a regular basis. Ticked me off every time.
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### Author:  [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2014, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-sale-under-2000-00/699924/4 "2014-09-30T01:45:53Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@D.E.S.K.Top668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.E.S.K.Top668)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2014, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-sale-under-2000-00/699924/5 "2014-09-30T02:04:25Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#):
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> 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.
Peace - DESK
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### Author:  [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2014, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-sale-under-2000-00/699924/6 "2014-09-30T02:19:27Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#):
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> 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?
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.
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### Author:  [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2014, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-sale-under-2000-00/699924/7 "2014-09-30T02:30:53Z")
> [@flatlined](#):
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> If the vehicle doesn’t have a for sale sign, its not for sale.
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.
I believe just about everything has a price.
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### Author:  [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-sale-under-2000-00/699924/8 "2014-09-30T02:41:01Z")
> [@Bullitt](#):
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> 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?
[QUOTE=Bullitt]
I believe just about everything has a price.
[/QUOTE]
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.
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### Author:  [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2014, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-sale-under-2000-00/699924/9 "2014-09-30T05:47:45Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2014, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-sale-under-2000-00/699924/10 "2014-09-30T08:44:02Z")
> [@Bullitt](#):
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> 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.
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> I believe just about everything has a price.
What do you want for that testicle?
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### Author:  [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2014, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-sale-under-2000-00/699924/11 "2014-09-30T08:57:11Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#):
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> What do you want for that testicle?
For you, special deal…will let it go for $953,000, you pay the transfer fees
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### Author:  [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2014, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-sale-under-2000-00/699924/12 "2014-09-30T11:09:10Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2014, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-sale-under-2000-00/699924/13 "2014-09-30T11:27:47Z")
I’ll give you $1000 if you put a tape player in it
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2014, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-sale-under-2000-00/699924/14 "2014-09-30T11:59:43Z")
> [@Sitnam](#):
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> 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.
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.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2014, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-sale-under-2000-00/699924/15 "2014-09-30T12:16:37Z")
My mom bought a new Tercel in 1996. Now I have it. Eventually my nephew might get it, but I’m willing to mull offers of ten grand or more…
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### Author:  [@D.E.S.K.Top668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.E.S.K.Top668)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2014, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-sale-under-2000-00/699924/16 "2014-09-30T12:33:58Z")
> [@PSXer](#):
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> I’ll give you $1000 if you put a tape player in it
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? 😉
Peace - DESK
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2014, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-sale-under-2000-00/699924/17 "2014-09-30T12:40:47Z")
OK, how about $800?
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### Author:  [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2014, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-sale-under-2000-00/699924/18 "2014-09-30T12:42:07Z")
that was what I meant but you caught me in a technicality guess I’m legally bound now
nice catch
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2014, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-sale-under-2000-00/699924/19 "2014-09-30T12:46:15Z")
Try haggling upwards:
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 just want to know what happens)
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2014, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-sale-under-2000-00/699924/20 "2014-09-30T12:57:05Z")
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.
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