Backstory I've had 9 cars now so I'm fairly seasoned in buying and selling. Wife and I decided that we no longer needed 2 cars for right now and decided to sell the 200C before Chrysler completely shuts down that assembly line.
Listed the car slightly above book value with NADA values (knew I wouldn't get my ask) but also in my defense this car had like 16,000 miles on it and looked like it could have gone back to a dealership floor.
Long story short, had a guy text me about my car saying he saw it on CL. Just like most peoples experiences I for 1.) thought he probably wasn't very serious and 2.) if he was serious then would show up to check and see if the car really lived up to the pictures/writeup/asking price with a test drive.
well none of part 2 ended up happening. He politely asked me where I got my values (which I linked him to) and then ended up texting me an offer. The offer was less than my ask, but more than the KBB value in "excellent" condition. It was actually what I had hoped I would get in an absolute best case scenario. I said of course when would you like to come see it? He tells me the car is for his son, and he's sending his wife out the next morning with a cashiers check.
At this point I'm fairly skeptical about the situation. Haven't talked to this guy on the phone, no context to his situation for the most part, but wants to buy the car sight unseen? Is this a joke? It must be. I've been had too many times by losers on CL. I tell him sounds good and set a time, and let him know if he has ANY questions please let me know before she comes. As I'm sitting there that night I start to think, either this is a huge hoax, or these people are ridiculously loaded and don't care.
For context the price we agreed on was $21,500 which isn't a small amount for someone to just be like "sounds great, I'll give you a check and whatever."
Sure enough the next morning (last Thursday), wife shows up in a smoking BMW loaded X6 and immediately it all makes sense. She gets out, looks at the car and says "we'll take it." Hands me the check.
Didn't sit in the car, didn't drive it, didn't even turn it on. In fact she didn't even do a walk around. Just looked at it.
So for those out there, yes these kinds of sales exist, and rich people just DGAF. Wife and I are down back to the Lincoln, and life is good haha.
Listed the car slightly above book value with NADA values (knew I wouldn't get my ask) but also in my defense this car had like 16,000 miles on it and looked like it could have gone back to a dealership floor.
Long story short, had a guy text me about my car saying he saw it on CL. Just like most peoples experiences I for 1.) thought he probably wasn't very serious and 2.) if he was serious then would show up to check and see if the car really lived up to the pictures/writeup/asking price with a test drive.
well none of part 2 ended up happening. He politely asked me where I got my values (which I linked him to) and then ended up texting me an offer. The offer was less than my ask, but more than the KBB value in "excellent" condition. It was actually what I had hoped I would get in an absolute best case scenario. I said of course when would you like to come see it? He tells me the car is for his son, and he's sending his wife out the next morning with a cashiers check.
At this point I'm fairly skeptical about the situation. Haven't talked to this guy on the phone, no context to his situation for the most part, but wants to buy the car sight unseen? Is this a joke? It must be. I've been had too many times by losers on CL. I tell him sounds good and set a time, and let him know if he has ANY questions please let me know before she comes. As I'm sitting there that night I start to think, either this is a huge hoax, or these people are ridiculously loaded and don't care.
For context the price we agreed on was $21,500 which isn't a small amount for someone to just be like "sounds great, I'll give you a check and whatever."
Sure enough the next morning (last Thursday), wife shows up in a smoking BMW loaded X6 and immediately it all makes sense. She gets out, looks at the car and says "we'll take it." Hands me the check.
Didn't sit in the car, didn't drive it, didn't even turn it on. In fact she didn't even do a walk around. Just looked at it.
So for those out there, yes these kinds of sales exist, and rich people just DGAF. Wife and I are down back to the Lincoln, and life is good haha.