Sellers not interested in selling...A little venting here...

[Eddystone]

Tell us more about how old volvos help with writing off $55k in taxes. That sounds like something we'd all like to know.

Amblerman, we're still living in the 18th Century under Pennsylvania statutes. As a Judge of Elections, the law requires me to supply a lantern. Quaint, but that should be outta there by now...

I was curious about that $55k, too, but didn't want to draw any attention to Abscate. He's too useful to have sitting in some federal pen with no internet access.

[850 LPT]

I too have had some great experiences buying cars and other stuff like wheels off CL lately.

For example, the guy who sold me the $650 S70 5-speed was a super nice retired systems analyst from Westpoint. Who would have thought. Description of the car was very spotty, but on the phone he was more than helpful. Then when I test drove the car he said: Cmon, I know you want to see this thing from underneath don't you. And so he drove straight into Westpoint and used a lift in their fleet garage - amazing!

I think it takes patience for the right car to pop up and the right instinct. If I don't get a vaguely fuzzy feeling after the first contact I don't bother anymore. It's simply not worth my time.

Dirk

[abscate]

Tell us more about how old volvos help with writing off $55k in taxes. That sounds like something we'd all like to know.

Amblerman, we're still living in the 18th Century under Pennsylvania statutes. As a Judge of Elections, the law requires me to supply a lantern. Quaint, but that should be outta there by now...

I was curious about that $55k, too, but didn't want to draw any attention to Abscate. He's too useful to have sitting in some federal pen with no internet access.

I get one hour a day for good behaviour. Next year I’m out on weekends.

This guy Madoff in the cell next to me has a lot of money, anyone know where he got it?

Seriously , a 400 mile Boston trip pays me $220 in mileage reimbursement, tax free

I figure my actual cost of running on my depreciated T5 is about $80 for that trip, all in. Depreciation being the key

[tardcart]

well it costs 15 cents a mile just for gas 3.00/gal@22mpg, more for my turbo with premium. insurance is 800$/8000miles so is 10 cent a mile. tires 500/30000miles 1.5cents. parts and batteries $800/8000mi is 10 cents a mile. so with zero acquisition cost you are spending
36.5 cents a mile. just throw a ten on the dash when you drive 25 miles for a six pack.

[abscate]

well it costs 15 cents a mile just for gas 3.00/gal@22mpg, more for my turbo with premium. insurance is 800$/8000miles so is 10 cent a mile. tires 500/30000miles 1.5cents. parts and batteries $800/8000mi is 10 cents a mile. so with zero acquisition cost you are spending
36.5 cents a mile. just throw a ten on the dash when you drive 25 miles for a six pack.

you get chewed in NJ on insurance

$270 a year for 30,000 miles for me on insurance on the T5
Just under 30 mpg at $3 gallon if I keep the boost off cruising, and over 30 mpg on the NA
Tires 1 cpm
Last year parts bill was $3200 over 6 cars - total miles driven was 69,000 miles - a nickel per mile spread out.

[callahanoffroad]

I know exactly what you mean about CL sucking these days. Although I hate it, Facebook (Facebook is what I hate) Marketplace has been way better in St Louis lately. CL is full of scammers locally. Ive sold a bunch of stuff on the FB marketplace lately, and not one scammer. So I'd recommend trying that going forward. I got my last few cars of CL but it's seems like CL is dead or dying. Just my $.02

Oh and I'm with abscate. Self employment write offs are amazing. It's $0.58/miles for 2019. I'm at $6k in write offs just in mileage for the year myself.

[tryingbe]

It's a $300 car now. https://delaware.craigslist.org/cto/d/n ... 09478.html

Call with a different phone and try this.

"I've got the $300, are you ok meeting up this evening for me to pick up?"

[amblerman]

That is amazing and i don't even understand what the scam is here. I mean it is just to harvest phone numbers? What is scam on listing but not really every trying to sell a <$500 volvo with 303k miles on it (supposedly)

Btw. I LOVE, craigslist ads with pictures like that.

In this day and age it's pretty tough to take a bad picture with a cell phone but people keeping doing it. Or pictures at night do you can't see the car.

But seriously. What is scam here? I'm trying to understand it.

[abscate]

When you show up they jack your ride. Of course, you can reverse scam them by showing up in an insured rental , they towing the car home for free.

[Eddystone]

It's a $300 car now. https://delaware.craigslist.org/cto/d/n ... 09478.html

Call with a different phone and try this.

"I've got the $300, are you ok meeting up this evening for me to pick up?"

Must be a scam of some sort. The car is sitting in a Burger King parking lot where it died. I offered to meet him there with cash as long as he had a title and ID to prove he's the owner. Dead silence. What a waste. The owner of the Burger King is going to have that car towed and it will be scrapped because the tow company will want $350 to release it to the owner. I guess it is essentially abandoned.