Hello people of reddit! I was car searching for cars on cragslist and was wondering how much you guys negotiate until you settle to a much lower price. I am thinking of getting a used C5 or C6 Corvette off cragslists by the end of the year and they range anywhere from $9,000-$20000. When you car buy or sell, what do you expect to really pay/ receive? Say you saw a car you liked for $7000, what price would you really buy it for? Or if you tend to sell your used car for $5000, but would take mo less than $4000? How much wiggle room are you willing to move from your original price? If you have any stories, please let me know and how much you paid/sold off the original price.Here are 4 cragslist stories I've had on cragslist so far when trying to buy 2 of my previous cars.I needed a new suv to take family trips around California (where I live) and my old 96 ford explorer was slowly dying, it was not capable of going up hills anymore and needed a new suv. I was looking up cars off cragslist and met about 5 people before I bought one. Some of the cars I looked at had dents or dings that were not mentioned in the ad at all or very dirty and messy on the inside. This woman had cloths still in her car and trash. How do you expect to sell a car when its trashed on the inside? Makes me wonder how well she took car of the car itself. After a month, I went to go see a 2001 GMC Yukon XL. The car paint and body was mint, the inside was very clean and the leather seats were 9.5/10 perfect, besides the driver side, the edge of it was a little rip, but overall good. It had 220,000 miles ( a little too much), but it had a new transmission put in a month ago and the car was being sold for $3,600. It had one owner and was driven by the two ederly couple 99% of the time. I talked for a bit with the owner and asked if he would accept $3,500 as the car was pretty much in excellent condition besides the high millage. He said he needed to go talk to his wife about it, goes in, 3 mins later, comes out and says his wife is ok with $3,500. This was about 2 years ago and that car is still running great today. It needed a new starter 4 months ago, but have had no major issues so far. I think that was a great buy as suvs a little smaller were around $6000+.My second story was another car I bought about a year ago. My 1991 red pontiac bonneville had things falling about on the inside, exterior paint job was peeling off and the steering wheel was hard to turn and the car was hard to handle. It was a great car for all the years I've had it with me (about 13 years) but needed to let it go. I was shopping for cars for around $2300 and saw a blue 1999 cougar for about $2100 in my city. I tried calling several times but no answer. I assumed he was working as this was on a weekday during working hours. I left a text message saying I was interested in the car and asked if I could go take a look at the car. He took hours and even days to reply, saying that he worked in SF and could meet up only on certain days; that he just got off work and needed to reschedule; couldn't find his pink slip but would mail it to me when I bought the car or I could wait. The last time I had contact with the guy, he said he found the pink slip, but getting to schedule a time for us to meet up never happened. He had on his cragslist ad that he didn't want to let the car go. I believe he just put his car selling at the bottom of the list just to not sell it quick. Around the same time failing to reschedule with this guy, I found yet another blue cougar for about $2000 (I wasn't really into the car, but it seemed like a good deal for the price and the car). The guy lived anout 30miles away and we scheduled to meet at a parking lot. The car in the ad looked good, clean title, about 120,000 miles, new battery and new radiator. I go meet the guy, and boy was I shocked on what I saw. The car had a major dent on the outside top of the passenger's side and the front windshield on the left side was cracked; and when I mean crack, I don't mean its a small star crack or event a large crack on the windshield. This window looked like someone threw a 15 inch rock on the windshield and made a 1 foot radius crack on the windshield. I have no idea how it wasn't completely shattered and broken, but that needed to be replaced asap. Immediately I knew I was not going to buy the car, but, I still inspected the car just for the heck of it. The inside was a little dirty and the seats had some stains. Aside from the huge dent on the side of the car, it also had more dings around the car. The ad said it didn't have any, but clearly the guy was lying. I asked what happened to the windshield. The guy tells me that last week when he left his car outside his house, someone went in and shattered his windshield. I don't know if his story was BS since the car in the ad has a perfectly good windshield, but not mentioning it to me before we meet up and still asking $2000 on cragslist for the car with a shattered window was bullshit. I left and continued to search for another car.As I continued my car search for a daily commuter, I stumbled across a 2001 Saturn for about $2200. The car had just 77k miles on the car and had a sun roof, which is something I wanted. I call the guy and ask the seller to let me check it out and the next day I go meet up with the guy. The car looked very good and didn't have any body issues at all. The car starting up sounded great and with the low mileage for $2200 was pretty good. The guy tells me his son drove the car from California to Washington when he was on vacation from college and he had no problems whatsoever with the car. I was sure I was going to buy this car no doubt, but there was a problem the moment I wanted to test drive that I overlooked when inspecting the car; the car was too low to the ground. I mean, I've seen cars low to the ground when people want to build a fast car, or rice it up for personal looks, but this car had no personal touch and was so not as hell a fast car, it was for some reason, low. The area the guy lived was near SF, and that area has a lot of hills and a shit ton of humps and damage roads, your car is garranteed to bounce a little every 2 mins. The house this guy lived parked the car in his driveway and the car hit the curve bump the moment I reversed the car for a test drive. As I heard the car scratch the bottom, I began to turn the wheel to slowly avoid scratching it more. The guy outside tells me that I need to drive it off at an angle and that he would do it. I put the car back to the driveway and get out of the car. I told him the car was nice but it was just too low for me to drive it, anywhere at all. We shook hands and I left.One of the last people I met up for another ( don't remember the car I looked up) had his car for sale for about $2300. I saw the ad, clean title, great condition, 120k miles. I made an appointment and went to check out the car. I arrived and was in a sketchy area, not sketchy you'll be shot, but not somewhere I would enjoy living. My dad came along with me and the seller comes out. He was a an asian guy around 55 and was smoking a cigarette. Be says the car is perfect, has a clean title and asked if this car was going to be my car. I get asked a lot if this car is going to be mine or if its going to be my first car since I am young. I don't like hearing those sentences because sellers try to overhype the car to get me excited and buy the car. The guy begins to tell me the engine is great, has no problems, is sure the smog will pass, what?! He hasn't done the smog? Well, ok, that wasn't in the ad, but ok. My dad looks over to the back right side of the car and tells me that it looked like it had body work to have it repaired and that the guy was probably in an accident, received money for the damages, and then trying to sell the salvage car for more money. I spotted other things I didn't like and told the guy I would think about it. I let and said "hell no the moment I jumped in the car.I settled down on a 2005 mitsubishi eclipse, remix edition. The car had leather seats, sun roof, engine and transmission sounded good and 7 speaker surround sound with minor dinks for $1900. The seller was asking $2000 and had 7 people coming by that day. It was a great buy and still using it to drive places. via /r/cars http://ift.tt/2u130jZ
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