Found My Car On Marketplace!

[Terrorist 5.0]

 

[Terrorist 5.0]

The guy I sold it to sold it 20 days after he bought it to this guy, I messaged the guy and he is really cool he is gonna let me come drive it haha, sold it almost 2 months ago.

 

[96blak54]

Well, this is a sign!!! Something or the powers of the heavens and earth are trying to get you to acquire it back. Best not to resist!

 

[Terrorist 5.0]

Well, this is a sign!!! Something or the powers of the heavens and earth are trying to get you to acquire it back. Best not to resist!

I have the money to do so, I just wish I had the space, and freedom to do so.

 

[shovel]

The guy I sold it to sold it 20 days after he bought it to this guy, I messaged the guy and he is really cool he is gonna let me come drive it haha, sold it almost 2 months ago.

~10 years back I had a S10 zr2 blazer I had done a solid front axle swap on, real clean truck with no problems but I had to make some changes elsewhere in life & put it up for sale cheap just to get it over with. A dude showed up, excited, telling me all these stories about how he wanted to go overlanding and hunting and camping with it, etc. and that all seemed fine but really I don't care what someone does with a car after I sell it to them, it's theirs. So 2 days later a friend said he saw it for sale at a buy-here-pay-here lot for $5k more than what I sold it for. I'm guessing the buyer was the owner of the car lot or an employee there who saw an easy flip. That's fine, but then why all the stories? He paid what I was asking he could have just handed that over and left..

Also a year later I saw it for sale again on craigslist but whoever owned it in between had completely destroyed it and they were still asking for more than what I had asked. Whoever bought it from them found me from my forum build threads and asked me if I'd be willing to un-f**** what had been done to it by the in-between owner(s), I politely declined.

I don't know what the point of this story is, just seemed relevant.

 

[Terrorist 5.0]

~10 years back I had a S10 zr2 blazer I had done a solid front axle swap on, real clean truck with no problems but I had to make some changes elsewhere in life & put it up for sale cheap just to get it over with. A dude showed up, excited, telling me all these stories about how he wanted to go overlanding and hunting and camping with it, etc. and that all seemed fine but really I don't care what someone does with a car after I sell it to them, it's theirs. So 2 days later a friend said he saw it for sale at a buy-here-pay-here lot for $5k more than what I sold it for. I'm guessing the buyer was the owner of the car lot or an employee there who saw an easy flip. That's fine, but then why all the stories? He paid what I was asking he could have just handed that over and left..

Also a year later I saw it for sale again on craigslist but whoever owned it in between had completely destroyed it and they were still asking for more than what I had asked. Whoever bought it from them found me from my forum build threads and asked me if I'd be willing to un-f**** what had been done to it by the in-between owner(s), I politely declined.

I don't know what the point of this story is, just seemed relevant.

That is a funny story lol

I figured the guy may have bought it off me to flip, but I was told that the new owner bought it for only 100$ more than what the last guy paid me.

Supposedly he was told it was because he was “moving” which is what I was told by the same guy. Strange.

 

[gatorblue92]

That is a funny story lol

I figured the guy may have bought it off me to flip, but I was told that the new owner bought it for only 100$ more than what the last guy paid me.

Supposedly he was told it was because he was “moving” which is what I was told by the same guy. Strange.

I would guess 90% of the "selling because I'm moving" people are flippers.

 

[Terrorist 5.0]

I would guess 90% of the "selling because I'm moving" people are flippers.

He did a pretty bad job because it looks the exact same and got paid almost the exact same too

 

[MyLittlePony]

~10 years back I had a S10 zr2 blazer

I don't know what the point of this story is, just seemed relevant.

My very first car was a 1988 BMW 325i convertible. I was 14 when I got it. My folks needed a third car, and bought it knowing it would be mine when I got my learners permit. Well, in 1998 I totaled it at an intersection. My father ended up selling it to a guy who wanted the motor for his, and the 94 mustang convertible was its replacement. I still kept the key though. You never forget your first.

Since my husband frequently would drive my Mustang in the late 00s, he would commonly get the two keys mixed up, which was odd, because you’d think he would know better, since he used to own a 97 thubderbird with the same exact style key. Anyway, he told me that I would never see that car again, so why not just take it off the key ring and put it somewhere special, since he knew that car meant so much to me.

…never see that car again? Within a week of removing the key, and no longer carrying that last remaining part of it with me, I got a fax. Seems that for a few years that car was sitting on some mechanics lot, abandoned. Someone wanted to buy it, but the mechanic didn’t know who owned it and never went through the process of putting a mechanics lien on it. He just wanted the spot back. So the interested party ran a vehicle inquiry on it, and it showed that I was the last registered owner, or rather, my father… …who past away a 3 years prior. Since the inquiry told me what the title document number was, I went through the process of getting a duplicate title, called the guy, told him the story about how it was totaled and supposed to have been parted out, and went to go see it.

My key still worked. It still had the original license plates, and in the trunk was the original instrument cluster with the exact mileage of the wreck. It even had the original numbers matching motor still in it! (They put the VIN on it) It was missing its floor mats, one of wheels had been swapped to a different one, and there was a plant growing out of its grill. I really wanted this car to finally be taken care of, and was going to sell it to the gentleman who contacted me, but knew it was a bad idea. In the glove box was a receipt of the cosmetic repairs done. $1600. That’s how much it cost to fix a totaled 10yo BMW?!? Apparently they had cut out the damaged part of the car, and replaced it with one from a coupe, which apparently are different in sizing. They also ended up doing an “uh oh! Better get MACCO” quality paint job on it. Also, the customer billed wasn’t even the guy my father sold the car too. So who left it there?

It was 2006. These E30s were worthless. So I felt that it would be in everyone’s best interest to tow the car out of that guys shop, NOT sell the car to anyone, and do the work myself as the only real value it had left to it was that it was my first freaking car. It saved my life, and then found me. That’s crazy special!

I noticed an OEM fuel filter in the trunk and figured that’s probably where I needed to investigate first. This car had not been driven, to my knowledge, in 8 years. The fuel in the system is probably bad, but I didn’t know better. Ended up buying a new fuel filter, putting it in, and then it started right up!!! That’s all it needed?!? Turned it off to show my husband what I had done and how proud I was, but then it wouldn’t start again. He had heard it start, so he believed me. It was that the 8yo gas had turned to varnish, which we smelled even before towing it home. The guy couldn’t get it running because it kept clogging the fuel filter, and just told the mechanic to sell it, without leaving any contact info.

Well, I managed to get 3 decent years out of that unloved E30, and during that time, was able to complete a 5.0 swap on the 3.8, which was a fine motor, just didn’t get any respect. So, had it not been for the BMW, who knows? The Mustang might’ve remained a v6, simply because I needed a car to drive. Also during that time, my husband had just broke a piston rod due to driving in a surprise puddle of water in his lane. So before the 5.0 swap, my husband needed a working car to drive to work until his, that he had just paid off, got fixed.

It was truly a special car. …so special that it ended up saving my life AGAIN, when a motorist who camped out in a median forever, on a quiet road, chose to wait until I got close enough to pull out in front of me. I ended up curbing the brand new rims I had bought trying to avoid her. Soon after, I blew a head gasket on the E30, so with the Mustang swap finished, I started driving that, and we were finally going to restore it the right way.

My husband removed the fender, and that’s when he saw it. They had spot welded the Frankenstein piece in random spots only. What could be seen, was hidden with filler, but with the fender off, there was a hole where the two didn’t fit right, and the random weld spots had come APART. The only thing keeping the car together was the cross member and the aftermarket strut brace I had added!! Ended up selling everything I had bought for the car, and the car itself on an enthusiast forum, and I was super honest about everything. The engine went into a 24 hour of Lemons racer, and did quite well. It also competed as something known as a chump racer.

But the buyer took that car apart piece by piece, then took pictures of it. So I know I wouldn’t see it again. …though I did recently lose my key for it.

 

[ttocs]

The way people work on marketplace forces me to use it when I absolutely HAVE to. I actually just put my dads car up 20 mins ago and I am waiting for the tire kickers to start asking "is this still for sale?" as well as a million other questions before they ask if there is any wiggle room on the price and offer %60 of the price you posted as a fair price if they don't just ghost me. It is a necessary evil I guess is how I would put it.

 

[MyLittlePony]

The way people work on marketplace forces me to use it when I absolutely HAVE to. I actually just put my dads car up 20 mins ago and I am waiting for the tire kickers to start asking "is this still for sale?" as well as a million other questions before they ask if there is any wiggle room on the price and offer %60 of the price you posted as a fair price if they don't just ghost me. It is a necessary evil I guess is how I would put it.

I STILL refuse to sign up for Facebook. I still check listings on Craigslist from time to time. But just like with car forums, Facebook has destroyed Craigslist traffic, so not as much activity as once was. But even back then and now, Craigslist was always flooded with dealer listings. They started charging a fee in 2019, which greatly reduced the amount of dealer ads and scammers, but you still get the WTB ads where there is an SEO keyword list of vehicles at the bottom, and a willingness to trade. Most normal folk just want to sell their car because they got a new one, and they thought they could do better than a dealer trade in. They don’t want someone else’s car. But you know who does? Dealers.

They’re worth the fee if you’re a small dealership who has maybe 20-50 cars on the lot, but it’s almost amusing the lengths they go through. For example, I was looking at a few kei cars, and was surprised to discover how local they were. I then discovered the same pictures when searching elsewhere online, and found out that it was a local small dinky used car dealer. In fact, I think they are two different dealerships using the same building and lot. I even discovered the nearby neighborhood they drove one of the cars to in order to take pics. They didn’t want you to think they were a dealer. Yesterday I decided to check them all out, and they had all three (they had several kei cars) all parked next to each other, making it easy to compare the three.

So a few weeks ago, I discovered the listings, thought it was cool that they were local, then more recently found it suspicious that all three were in the same town with the same phone number. I also had noticed that they would pull the listing every week or two to lower the price. I bet these cars are on marketplace too. In person, they’re pretty disappointing considering the price. Hard to tell that from the pics. The one decent one has pretty DANGEROUS cracks on the sidewall of the tires. The other two were repainted, badly, looking like ricers from the Y2K era modified whatever they could, then let both sit in the Texas sun for two decades. Oh… …and no tread life left on the wheels because they be drift kings, no cap, all rizz, straight fire and bussin.

 

[Roy S]

The guy I sold it to sold it 20 days after he bought it to this guy, I messaged the guy and he is really cool he is gonna let me come drive it haha, sold it almost 2 months ago.

Cool!

 

[Terrorist 5.0]

My very first car was a 1988 BMW 325i convertible. I was 14 when I got it. My folks needed a third car, and bought it knowing it would be mine when I got my learners permit. Well, in 1998 I totaled it at an intersection. My father ended up selling it to a guy who wanted the motor for his, and 94 mustang convertible was its replacement. I still kept the key though. You never forget your first.

Since my husband frequently would drive my Mustang in the late 00s, he would commonly get the two keys mixed up, which was odd, because you’d think he know better, since he used to own a 97 thubderbird with the same exact style key. Anyway, he told me that I would never see that car again, so why not just take it off the key ring and put it somewhere special, since he knew that car meant so much to me.

…never see that car again? Within a week of removing the key, and no longer carrying that last remaining part of it with me, I got a fax. Seems that for a few years that car was sitting on some mechanics lot, abandoned. Someone wanted to buy it, but the mechanic didn’t know why owned it and never went through the process of putting a mechanics lien on it. He just wanted the spot back. So the interested party ran a vehicle inquiry in it, and it showed that I was the last registered owner, or rather, my father… …who past away a 3 years prior. Since the inquiry told me what the title document number was, I went through the process of getting a duplicate title, called the guy, told him the story about how it was totaled and supposed to have been parted out, and went to go see it.

My key still worked. It still had the original license plates, and in the trunk was the original instrument cluster with the exact mileage of the wreck. It even had the original numbers matching motor still in it! (They put the VIN on it) It was missing its floor mats one of wheels had been swapped to a different one, and there was a plant growing out of its grill. I really wanted this car to finally be taken care of, and was going to sell it to the gentleman who contacted me, but knew it was a bad idea. In the glove box was a receipt of the cosmetic repairs done. $1600. That’s how much it cost to fix a totaled 10yo BMW?!? Apparently they had cut out the damaged part of the car, and replaced it with one from a coupe, which apparently are different in sizing. They also ended up doing an “uh oh! Better get MACCO” quality paint job on it. Also, the customer billed wasn’t even the guy my father sold the car too. So who left it there?

It was 2006. These E30s were worthless. So I felt that it would be in everyone’s best interest to tow the car out of that guys shop, NOT sell the car to anyone, and do the work myself as the only real value it had left to it was that it was my first freaking car. It saved my life, and then found me. That’s crazy special!

I noticed an OEM fuel filter in the trunk and figured that’s probably where I needed to investigate first. This car had not been driven, to my knowledge, in 8 years. The fuel in the system is probably bad, but I didn’t know better. Ended up buying a new fuel filter, putting it in, and then it started right up!!! That’s all it needed?!? Turned it off to show my husband what I had done and how proud I was, but then it wouldn’t start again. He had heard it start, so he believed me. It was that the 8yo gas had turned to varnish, which we smelled even before riding it home. The guy couldn’t get it running because it kept clogging the fuel filter, and just told the mechanic to sell it, without leaving any contact info.

Well, I managed to get 3 decent years out of that unloved E30, and during that time, was able to complete a 5.0 on the 3.8, which was a fine motor, just didn’t get any respect. So, had it not been for the BMW, who knows? The Mustang might’ve remained a v6, simply because I needed a car to drive. Also during that time, my husband had just broke a piston rod due to driving in a surprise puddle of water in his lane. So before the 5.0 swap, my husband needed a working car to drive to work until his, that he had just paid off, got fixed.

It was truly a special car. …so special that it ended up saving my life AGAIN, when a motorist who camped out in a median forever, on a quiet road, chose to wait until I got close enough to pull out in front of me. I ended up curbing the brand new rims I had bought trying to avoid her. Soon after, I blew a head gasket on the E30, so with the Mustang swap finished, I started driving that, and we were finally going to restore it the right way.

My husband removed the fender, and that’s when he saw it. They had spot welded the Frankenstein piece in random spots only. What could be seen, was hidden with filler, but with the fender off, there was a hole where the two didn’t fit right, and the random weld spots had come APART. The only thing jeepibg the car together was the cross member and the aftermarket strut brace I had added!! Ended up selling everything I had bought for the car, and the car itself on an enthusiast forum, and I was super honest about everything. The engine went into a 24 hour of Lemons racers, and did quite well. It also competed as something known as a chump racer.

But the buyer took that car apart piece by piece, then took pictures of it. So I know I wouldn’t see it again. …though I did recently lose my key for it.

That’s an incredible story. Many people won’t take the time to read multiple paragraphs unfortunately, but well worth it. I have my first key too.

 

[Terrorist 5.0]

The way people work on marketplace forces me to use it when I absolutely HAVE to. I actually just put my dad’s car up 20 mins ago and I am waiting for the tire kickers to start asking "is this still for sale?" as well as a million other questions before they ask if there is any wiggle room on the price and offer %60 of the price you posted as a fair price if they don't just ghost me. It is a necessary evil I guess is how I would put it.

Marketplace is absolute trash. My seller rating is 3 stars and below as I am as honest as they come. If someone asks for some ridiculous figure off the price I straight up tell them “get lost”, or “*F* off”. Harsh, but some people really need a wake up call. They are trying to steal your belongings with a straight face.

 

[ttocs]

I put my mountain bike on last year for a fair price of $1500 but was in no desperate need to sell it. 2 weeks later someone asked if I had any wiggle room on the price so I said to make an offer and they did. When I saw they said $800 I knew we were not going to settle in the middle like he might have hoped so I just blocked him. I got the same crap from criagslist when I used it, it is just how online sales go short of auctions.

 

[MyLittlePony]

I got the same crap from criagslist when I used it, it is just how online sales go short of auctions.

My problem with Craigslist was the people wanting to know if I still had it, wanted it without the BS of haggling, ask if you’d meet up, but then ghost you from that point on. That was nuts! It was irritating because I would get multiple emails from interested people, so I would tell them “someone else emailed me first, so you’re second, third, fourth… …if they don’t gone and get it.” But then those people would ghost me too. And the sad thing is that I HAD to leave the ad up because there was no guarantee that they’d show, so the “do you still have this?” Questions were legitimate… …even if those people never responded back.

 

[shovel]

I throw away or donate (to the ARC store, if suitable for them) a LOT of stuff just to avoid the hassle of dealing with mother lovers on marketplace/craigslist

 

[ttocs]

I had to put my dads car up this week on marketplace. We must be asking too much or no one likes subaru legacy's in good shape as I have only had one person ask about it. The way he drives the car has never been over 2500 rpms and the brakes maybe 30% max push ever.

 

[Terrorist 5.0]

I had to put my dads car up this week on marketplace. We must be asking too much or no one likes subaru legacy's in good shape as I have only had one person ask about it. The way he drives the car has never been over 2500 rpms and the brakes maybe 30% max push ever.

Hopefully it can still deliver when the pedal is to the metal, my grandfathers W126 300SE used to clog up after a while, and the only way to fix it was a good beating up the mountain.

Would run clean by the time you came home.

 

[ttocs]

that car runs perfectly. The only thing that is wrong with it is some scratches on the bumpers. The front from rocks/debris and the rear from when he "nudged" the garage when he attempted to back out with the door still down. I know I have been really impressed with the back-up warnings when I back up so hopefully it will prevent that from happening in the future. I have been surprised this year a couple of times that as I was backing up and not yet able to see around the car beside me and got a beep/warning that made me stop to look down to see it was warning of a car/person coming up from the side about to go behind me, and then see them go past in the camera.