I've sold 7 or 8 cars on ebay but never thought I would buy one there, especially not a Porsche.
The car was listed by an local ebay seller, an Acura dealer. The previous owner barely touched it so I thought it was worth driving down to look at.
The car didn't sell by literaly like $150! That close to letting it slip away
The salesman and I had no idea what we were doing, we couldn't even figure out how to see the engine. I took a risk without a certified inpsection but the car was showroom new, obviously a Sunday driver that only saw 2,500 miles a year but more importantly New Jersey imposes a 6 month power train warranty on used car dealers. That took a major bite out of the fear factor. A very good law from a business point.
I called the next day even though I was busy as heck and made an offer thru email. They emailed a counter offer and we went back and forth until they caved.
I came that weekend and they relisted it and I closed the deal in the showroom on their laptop and gave the smiling salesmen a check.
The high bidder who didn't meet the reserve must have been sleeping or found something else or got cold feet. My salesman was a young new hire who was put in charge of starting ebay sales so he was eager to sell and even agreed to keep the Boxster in their spare showroom for two weeks until I sold my Miata which I also sold thru ebay for twice the private seller book value after pulling the auction to sell to someone who was adamant about buying it. He flew up from Florida to Jersey gave me cash jumped in and drove right back to florida. Sad to see the Black land shak with BBS wheels go but I wasn't sad because I was getting something better! The new owner even drove me to pick up the BoxsterS.
I paid $30K for my 2000 S late last year. It was the silver and red which I'd been wanting ever since I first became Porsche fan. (I'm an interior car neat freak no black for me thanks) And havent seen many low mileage S models in this color since. I could have gone with a Boxster that was a few years newer but with only 10,000 miles I thought: why? It looks like all the other 986's. Which freed me up to add over $5K in mods
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