I wrote the guy, and said "Wow man, your price is about 10k high!",
and sent him to Samba for a reality check.

He wrote back and said "Yeh, your right, but some crazy rich
californian might want one that bad".

Blew me away. I believe in the law of karma, that if we try to steal
from others, people will try to steal from us. I guess I have always
been a "Buy High, Sell Low" kinda person. ; )

I bet his next car is gonna be REAL Expensive!

Ri

On Apr 13, 2006, at 11:31 PM, Jeff Oxroad wrote:

> In a message dated 4/13/2006 11:01:06 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> nobleman1962@YAHOO.COM writes:
>
>> "We  are going to look at offers from $33,000 until the end of
>> April 2006.
> If you  are >wondering why anyone would pay 30 large for a 15 year
> old VW Bus,
> then  this is >obviously not the vehicle for you. Serious
> inquiries  only"
>
>> Now that is a pretentious out right offensive  statement.
>
> Yeah, I have a "serious inquiry" for the guy. Have you sought
> psychological
> help?
>
> I can't figure it out and I don't want to pin it on Californians,
> but there
> is a very strange thing that goes on out here. And I have only seen it
> here--never back east where I used to live.
>
> People out here (not all of them of course) put their vehicles up
> for sale
> when they have absolutally no desire to sell them. It's odd, and I
> wonder why
> it  happens here--I dare say frequently--and I never noticed such a
> thing back
> east.
>
> On my block here in LA there is a Ford Escort with a FOR SALE sign
> and has
> been for sale  for over 2 years! I wish I were kidding. The asking
> price is
> $3800 and in the best of times it's worth about half that. But
> still a  detailed
> sign in the window highlighting it's "features".
>
> When I lived in Burbank for two years there was a Ford pick up for
> sale for
> the two years I lived there. Again this one had the detailed For
> Sale sign.
> There's an overpriced 90s Passat up in Hollywood that's been
> overpriced with a
> For Sale sign on it for the better part of a year. This For Sale
> sign shows
> the  blue book value and asks about $100 below that. But again
> overpriced--it's
> not  in excellent condition and has a boatload of miles. Clean enough.
> Probably worth  half of what's being asked. But there's no matter
> because it's not
> really for  sale.
>
> Another Toyota I looked at with a friend was overpriced and  then
> I  saw it
> for about a year--still "for sale!"
>
> I think in all fareness if you put a For Sale sign on something
> you  should
> be somewhat interested in letting go of it for a fair price.
> There's  something
> wrong with these people, and I can't quite put my finger on it.
>
> Is it the pleasure of teasing? The delusion of knowing the "real
> value",
> when in fact the real value is what someone is offering--not what
> you're  asking.
>
> And I agree, I don't know the guy who is selling the $33K bus, but
> the ad  is
> condescending not only in the asking price.
>
> Best,
> Jeff
> 83.5 Westy
> LA,CA
>