Fred, I have to chime in here. I have seen this thread going on so long around
in circles with no resolution. I will add or the morass of comments.
IMHO, $18K which was turned down is an ASTRONOMICAL
price for a TR6! That is DOUBLE the price of a "quite nice" one, which might
do well at a show.
Certainly $8K might be low, but so what? That is what the person making the
offer wanted to spend.
That is what the car was worth to him. It is simply a statement of finances
and motivation, not a comment
about the quality of the car in question. The fact that the offer was made is
a compliment, not the dollar
amount being a slap in the face. The seller only needod to say, "well add $12K
to that and we can start to talk"....
Now for a bigger piece of my own opinion. The statement "this is truly a one
of a kind restoration" may well be true!
But, what is the added value of this vs. a "one of a hundred restoration"? To
me, not very much extra, although
the COST of such an effort is substantially greater.
As we have all said, the money and effort put in such a restoration (any
restoration?) is an act of love and
certainly not an investment (at least not for a TR). The return on the
investment to the owner is in satisfaction,
not in dollars.
So what does this all mean? I think it is silly to get bent about a low ball
offer, and even more silly to
expect someone else will value your time/effort/investment the way you do!!!!
Nuff said!
-Tony
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>From: "Fred Thomas" <vafred@erols.com>
Subject: cars value
I have to agree with the fact you should not be offended by a offer which is
not close to what you were expecting, but, this particular car is not a
average or even above average show car, "this is truly a one of a kind
restoration", even though it may be just a T/R 6, it is still the most
perfect in everyway that could possibly be done, so with that in mind, your
offer should also be a offer of fairness and honesty toward what you are
looking at<
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