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Originally Posted by sugarwood
It's funny how irrational the typical buyer is.
When I see an ad with listed costs and repairs, I think:
1) This seller has maintained the car. Not some teenager.
2) Look at all the stuff I won't be needing to do.
3) The bra shows the seller spent money to protect the car. Another huge plus that tells you everything you need to know about the seller.
It takes a special kind of fool to think since there are no repairs, there will continue to be none, and to prefer a car with no maintenance done.
But, I can see irrational people thinking one car is "cursed" and one where nothing went wrong (yet) is somehow better.
The reality is the opposite. The more repairs, the less you need to do yourself.
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My last Boxster was sold in 4 hours with people fighting to get it on the basis of a 2 line craigslist posting. The buyer drove 50m miles to see it, and paid cash (in hundred $ bills). He didn't even drive the car but bought it saying he could tell from the way I talked about the car and insisted that he know some things he probably hadn't even thought about that the car had been maintained. He told me he based his decision on me and didn't need to even test drive the car! He already owned several exotics that would have been priced at 10x what I was selling mine for. He was buying this for his girlfriend.