On May 18, 2009, at 9:07 AM, Don Hanson wrote:

>  On the other side of this issue, I find it remarkable the prices some
> folks ask (and obviously, sell at eventually) for some Vanagons.

I think that the prices listed on the samba & the prices sold for are
not necessarily even close, & that volks list their items on the samba
based on what they see other volks list items for, which furthers the
cycle of high prices?

I am not justifying the Jerk Boy scenario, just trying to understand
the price of vanagons/etc & what they are really worth/sell for.

Jerk Boy is just trying to make himself feel more knowledgeable &
superior to Ken, which is Jerk Boy's personal problem, not Ken's?

YMMV,

Mr. BZ

>
>  Mean emails to the sellers are not called for but sometimes it is
> worth
> mentioning $.  It is a reality check.
>  These "That's too much!" posts, the Posters are probably just
> jealous of
> the rich people who don't care how much something costs, they just
> go ahead
> and buy it anyway,  because they want it..
>  And...If you paid $50k for a perfect Syncro, you'd be getting a
> better
> vehicle than anything available brand new..so it's still a deal at
> *almost*
> any price..
>  Don Hanson
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:15 AM, dylan friedman <insyncro@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Ken,
>> Don't let it bother you.
>> The Samba is full of tire kickers and people wishing they had a van.
>> Craig's List is even worse.
>> I now have a thirty day rule with the Samba...if not sold in 30
>> days I pull
>> the ad.
>> I watch the classifieds on there closely, the good stuff goes in
>> hours
>> after posting.
>> I have sold many parts and complete vans in the last 12 years and
>> get an
>> email like the one you received at least once a month.
>> I give it a big "whatever".
>>
>> Keep doing what you have been doing.....
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Ken Wilford <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET>
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 7:49:29 AM
>> Subject: Mean Email from the Samba member
>>
>> I have had my sister's 88 Westy listed on the Samba for over a year
>> now.  It is a very nice 88 Westy with almost exactly 100k miles on
>> it,
>> tons of work done (all documented), and Go Westy metal bumpers on it.
>> Before our economic slow down I would have been able to quickly
>> sell it
>> for around $17k maybe even a little more.  Since then, it is just
>> sitting here and I am in no real rush to sell it.  My sister is not
>> financially strapped, I am not either and the van is being used about
>> once a week so it isn't just sitting here rusting.  This morning I
>> get a
>> taunting email from someone on The Samba scoffing at my price for the
>> van and telling me that they contacted me back in December about it
>> and
>> now it is May and it still hasn't sold.  In the first place, why
>> should
>> they care?  In the second place December isn't the time of year that
>> vans sell anyway, now is.  In the third place I wouldn't sell the
>> van to
>> this idiot now for $1 million bucks.  Why do people have to feel that
>> they need to comment when they think your van price is too high?  I
>> have
>> had this happen more than once.  Another time a guy called me on the
>> phone, long distance, merely to tell me that I was asking way to much
>> (for a van that I sold at that price a few weeks later I might
>> ad).  Why
>> do people act this way?  Once I asked the person, OK how much would
>> you
>> give me for it?  They had no money and no intention of buying a van,
>> they just wanted to scoff and harass me about my price.  I have never
>> been able to figure out this kind of rude behavior.  For the most
>> part
>> the VW community and Vanagon community has nice folks in it.  Every
>> once
>> and a while you run into a jerky boy.  I guess this guy was just this
>> summer's jerky boy.  Now I can relax and not worry about meeting
>> another
>> one until next spring :-)
>>
>> Ken Wilford
>> John 3:16
>> www.vanagain.com
>>
>>