Has market value went up?

[RickJ]

I just bought my 2nd Boxster (the first was a '98 base model owned from 2000-2012)....a 09 'S' - and found the following - After driving both 'base' and 'S' models of various years, I decided ONLY an S would do this time. Most dealers had inflated prices - but at least one was willing to deal aggressively on used Boxsters. Aggressive searching/shopping could help find some 'S's' that could be purchased a few thousand under KBB...from individuals. The IMS issue seems to be 'sorting out' - and a significant minority of cars are advertised with 'IMS retrofits' of one sort or another, usually somewhat at higher prices - one 08S I found appeared a few weeks later on a dealer website at $11K more than the individual owner had been asking.....so Dealers don't seem to be ashamed to price a bit high - the more recent model S's (I was only looking through 2010 or older) - 2008-2010....appear to be somewhat harder to find.
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Historically, I've had my best luck buying 7 year old Porsches (with really good luck they've bottomed out on depreciation, but not gotten old enough to require lots of expensive maintainance) ......7 years would have put me at an 07 - and moving to an 09 brought me to DFI and total elimination of the IMS bearing issue.....so I gulped, spent a little more and bought an 09S.
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as always...a good PPI, service records, one or two owner car with the most recent owner having had the car a long time, clean carfax, and either buying from a good individual owner, or from a Porsche Dealer with some warrantee seems to be the preferred mode of buying......always better to overpay for a great car than to underpay for a 'fair' one....but of course best to underpay for a great car! (a quote from Captain Obvious?)

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RickJ