You want HOW MUCH?!!?!! Great expectations....

[rantingYoof]

I tentatitively start a new thread having spent a short while using the search function to make sure I'm not repeating an already tried-and-failed topic.

 

So, we have a thread for eBay treats, a thread for eBay JUST FUCKIN' SCRAP ITs, and a drive-away for £200 thread...I propose a thread where we celebrate those with pound signs in their eyes who are having a proper giraffe.

 

As a habitual browser of Autotrader (I can quit anytime I want) I tend to scroll through the sort of tat that I've owned in the past in a kind of sentimental mist.

 

And it is this way I find some of the most hilariously optimistic pricing in the history of the world.

 

Now I don't want this to be a thread where we point and laugh at your lovely old boy listing his 25 year old retirement-present car which has been kept in a garage its whole life and has done only 35,000 miles, who is pricing it with sentimental value added onto the normal value of the car.

 

That doesn't seem cricket, although being incredibly new to this site I may find that this would still be considered fair-game, in which case the rules are quite flexible. I'm not familiar with the Autoshite way, outside of a willingness to wander around a car boot sale looking for a dead Laguna armed with a battery and a few other bits and pieces.

 

There is more satisfaction to be derived shaming the low to mid-range dealers who take the above car off the old boy's hands for a pitifully small handful of £s who then decides "THIS IS A CLASSIC I COULD MAKE MEGAPROFITS ON THIS!!11" and whacks it up for sale with a hugely inflated price on it.

 

Allow me to give you an example of what I would call fair-game...

1994 Volvo 440 2.0SE with 25,000 miles on it - asking price £2,689.

 

Let me just say right away that I love the car, and it's in fine-looking condition, but is it a near three grand classic?

 

I know it might be subjective as to whether something is over-priced or not, so we need examples that are going to be unanimously considered over-priced.

 

Like this 2003 Vauxhall Omega 2.2DTi with 53k on the clock for £3,250.

 

Again, love the car, and even though it's not the six cylinder dizzler, it's a pretty robust engine. But OVER THREE GRAND? Just no.

 

The favours are not pitted in the dealers' favour anymore, with MOT histories being downloadable relatively quickly, and even the low-mileage classic can have issues that are being highlighted at each MOT on the advisory sheet.

 

A lot of you are more prolific browsers than I, so BRING OUT YOUR OVERLY EXPENSIVE TAT!

[Junkman]

Ah, like the Ebay Bargains thread?

[rantingYoof]

The anti-christ to bargains, shirley!

[lisbon_road]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OPEL-CORSA-B-engine-C14SE-build-1994-101930-miles-/351627507288?hash=item51dea1f658:g:F~cAAOSw5dNWlHid

 

These characters in Denmark know how to charge, but presumably they sell the odd one?

 

A lot of people use the free listing ability to charge daft amounts on the nothing to lose basis.  How do I know?  Er.........

[carlo]

The Ebay Bargains thread is exactly for this and has an ironic title

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Its not ebay bargains, its ebay 'bargains'

[rantingYoof]

It appears I have pearoasted and missed irony in a very unBritishlike fashion.

 

I blame my manflu.

 

 

I will go back to lurkage.

[BavarianRetro]

 

.......an example of what I would call fair-game...

1994 Volvo 440 2.0SE with 25,000 miles on it - asking price £2,689.

 

That's either another Arnold branch or an outfit populated by ex Arnold sales staff.

[sierraman]

Wherever sentimentality comes into a deal you are on track to pay way over the odds. Fatha Sierra liked the look of a Mondeo he knew of with 40k on the clock. It was 15 years old but to be fair it was tidy. He asked my opinion on the value, I said if it was as good as it looked I'd offer £6-700. At the end of the day it was what it was and low mileage isn't always a terribly good thing. The guys son got it in his head it was 'worth at least £1500'. I told said Fatha to forget it. A week later I gave £550 for a 56k car from a part time trader who knew that it was at the end of the day a 15 year old Mondeo.

[Tamworthbay]

 

 

I will go back to lurkage.

Is that in Norfolk?

[stripped fred]

I follow prices of mk1 MR2's as I have one myself. The prices vary a lot and there are always dealers hoping to cash in on an average condition car, like this one for example.

 

http://m.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C653267

 

I would say that's at least 3 times what it's worth.

[stripped fred]

Or how about this tasteful vauxhall pickup conversion?

 

http://m.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C638339

[stripped fred]

And staying on the GTE theme are these really worth this much now?

 

http://m.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C673111

[I_am_Diesel]

^ I very much doubt it.

[Matt]

Lets not have two threads for this one one page, aye?

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/1537-ebay-bargains/page-232

http://autoshite.com/topic/1537-ebay-bargains/page-232

http://autoshite.com/topic/1537-ebay-bargains/page-232

http://autoshite.com/topic/1537-ebay-bargains/page-232

http://autoshite.com/topic/1537-ebay-bargains/page-232

http://autoshite.com/topic/1537-ebay-bargains/page-232

http://autoshite.com/topic/1537-ebay-bargains/page-232

http://autoshite.com/topic/1537-ebay-bargains/page-232

http://autoshite.com/topic/1537-ebay-bargains/page-232

http://autoshite.com/topic/1537-ebay-bargains/page-232

[Junkman]

I will go back to lurkage.

 

I'd strongly advise against such doings.

I appreciate a ranting y00f much more than his totally nondescript contemporaries.

Grumpy old man sez you can't be a grumpy old man early enough.

[Junkman]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fiat-500-Gardiniera-/191807057274

 

was going to restore it myself but unfortunately have no time for it ... so I decided to sell it ... engine should start with a small service and some fuel ... compression sounds good.

 

You will need to fix Pick up from Malta .

 
 

£9,000.00 Buy it now

 

Where do I sign????

[chaseracer]

I will go back to lurkage.

 

Don't you bloody dare!

 

And here's why:

 

Welcome to my Compendium of Tat - now with lickable clinks!

 

• '97 Alto 1.0 (presumed dead)
• '95 (box) 214SEI (presumed dead)
• '89 MR2 1.6 16v (definitely dead and decomposed)
• '96 440 1.8i GL (presumed dead)
• '93 9000 2.0CSE (presumed dead)
• '98 825 Sterling (exceptionally dead)
• '92 480 2.0ES (presumed dead)
• '98 Galant 2.5V6 Auto (dead)
• '00 Omega 3.0 V6 Elite (dead)
• '01 45 2.0TD IXL (died a hero)
• '55 Mondeo 2.0TDCi Ghia 130 (STILL ALIVE!!!)
• '02 V70 2.4S 140hp (STILL ALIVE!!!)
• '54 9-3 Aero HOT (alive and local)
• '95 LS400 Mk4 (4spd 260hp) - (alive and 20 miles north of Aberdeen)
• '55 S60 2.0T SE - CURRENTLY ALIVE AND MINE - not particularly Autoshitey

 

[chaseracer]

Is that in Norfolk?

 

Leicestershire.  Near Hinckley.  No, hang on - that's Burbage.

 

As you were.