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

[Eddystone]

Drove down and looked at this 98T5, and it was a junker. Amateur repaired minor front end damage, bad hood, no grille. All four wheels pretty much trashed and two of the tires had good tread. Interior looked as if it had been open to the weather for a couple of years. Seats looked as if they had been intentionally cut up. Carpets were wet and filthy. Top of the engine was apart and the spark plug holes left open to the air. All rotors heavily rusted from sitting for who knows how long. It did have a good left front fender which I would gladly have paid him well for if he had just dealt.

[j-dawg]

The flip side of all this is when people come to hustle you. I went to sell my dad's old broken 380SL years ago, listed for 700 firm. Lots of calls, lots of interest. The first guy who came to see it said he wanted it but berated me for like twenty minutes for not lowering the price or including a second hardtop I happened to have. I told him repeatedly the price was firm and that was that. It got pretty heated before I told him to leave, and I'm pretty sure he left feeling like I was the asshole. Sold it the next day for asking price.

Selling stuff can feel like a game you have to win, and both he and I were playing it. I didn't want to sell for less if I didn't have to. He wanted the victory point of getting an extra couple hundred out of me, even if it would be a fraction of the cost of repairing the car. Nobody left happy. Have a price, negotiate, and don't leave angry if you don't get what you want.