Gernot,
You are right, it does appear to be backwards, doesn't it. However,
when a person is faced with fixing or restoring a car versus selling it,
and they find their budget is not sufficient to do the former, it
sometimes becomes the only conceivable option to sell it. Looking at
the prices of running cars over here, they usually advertise it at a
very low price in order to sell it fast.
That is where guys like me come in. Seeing the ad, we swoop down on the
unsuspecting party and offer him an even lower amount that he ends up
taking.
We then spend a lot of time stripping all the usable parts of the car
and using them in our own cars, selling what we don't need to others at
very reasonable prices but prices high enough to pay for the whole car
and a little more to compensate us for the trouble of dismantling it.
It's the "American Way". God bless capitalism!
Regards,
Joe
Gernot Vonhoegen wrote:
>
> you folks sound unbelievable (in the sense that I can't really get it.
> You talk about parts cars for 300-400$$, and then you flog od trannys for
> lots of bucks.
> Situation here is the other way round. I get an od tranny for say 150££ but
> have to pay say at least 1000££ for a parts car. Sounds to me this is the
> right way round. As to the price, well sorry if you have the money lying
> around in big wads, yeah sounds ok. If you are more of on a budget, no, far
> too expensive. Plus why would you want to rebuild your diff when its working
> ok, its not much of a job getting the diff out so I wouldn't do it just for
> the heck of doing it while I'm there. Bit like, I'll buy a new printer and
> while I do that, what the heck, I'll throw in a new monitor as well, old one
> works nicely, but then it could fail in say ten years....
> Sorry for graphic violence, grievance ecaused, upsetting anyone etc.
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