Straight Answer Please

[raspy2point2]

Why don't we survey's on this kind of stuff. Its hard to think what everybody would like on how to run the site. Are there owners of this site ? Chris

[VintageExcellen]

Most irritating thing for me as someone who sells cars regularly is someone with no common sense using an old ad as a comp against a current price, not talking about within the year but maybe 5 years ago.

Then when I sell a car, like at auction, and the results are public I get calls offering a similar car that needs to be restored. My 69S SWT was a well known sale and I got offered many other comparable projects for insane money where it would be impossible to have any upside. Trying to jump on the gravy train. One offer was about 85% of my auction result on a total project car

Lastly there are dopey people that call saying they want to buy my Porsche..... which one? Ummmm this one that I found in a search engine... that sold 8 years ago and that price is not relevant, did you see the SOLD next to the price? No I was just looking on my phone. Had a Beck Speedster once, sold it as a favor for someone, the amount of dummy calls I got years later tourtured me as I could not remove the data from a site.

Say what you will but I remove my prices and place SOLD in place of it. It’s my car, my ad and I feel I should be able to control it. My cars are a little different and don’t really follow market trends anyway.

My vote is keep the ad as a reference. The descriptions and pictures help a great deal on dodgy cars. Price history is up to the seller.

[Frank Beck]

For me, once something is sold and the price is removed, it no longer serves as a reference. It's just a collection of pictures.

Mark,
It’s actually not your ad if it’s on a public forum that specifies that once posted the info becomes public domain. I get what you’re saying but there’s a fine line here and as you’ve discovered, there’s only so much we can “control”.

Peter,
An ad memorializes a thing. Why would a buyer not want to see what the expensive artifact looked like in years past prior to his purchasing? Throw in valuable facts and info in ad content and the historical data becomes priceless.

Selling price isn’t everything.

[Unobtanium-inc]

Almost as annoying as "Price on Request"
I can understand this on a 2 million 904, but you will see guy's do it for a 71T. I've never understood the coyness of "Price on Request"

---Adam

[mfitton]

Almost as annoying as "Price on Request"
I can understand this on a 2 million 904, but you will see guy's do it for a 71T. I've never understood the coyness of "Price on Request"

---Adam

"Call for Price" is just a way for the seller (usually a dealer) to get your contact info into his database as a possible future buyer after you "pass out" when he does give you the price on his current listing.

[72targa]

The winds have changed. When I started doing this, complaints led me to invest a lot of time cleaning out completed ads with no price. Gonna just leave things be now. Will save me a BUNCH of time. The rickrick ad is back up. Back to our regularly scheduled program.

[steve shea]

I vote to keep the sale price. The Forum requires a sale price to post on the For Sale page. So it should also ask for the sold price for the reasons stated above.

Ya. Inquire, enquire, call for price and price on request is a waste of time and tells me to move along. I like Fantasy Junction and Paul Russell and Co. They post the prices, a novel and refreshing business tactic. Roads Scholars now has "private reserve". That's a new one.

[sithot]

The winds have changed. When I started doing this, complaints led me to invest a lot of time cleaning out completed ads with no price. Gonna just leave things be now. Will save me a BUNCH of time. The rickrick ad is back up. Back to our regularly scheduled program.

Thanks, Peter. I wasn't trying stir up a hornets nest. Have all the respect in the world for a thankless job. I just like going back and looking at "stuff" that's gone on. The ones that get me are the cars I liked or even owned when $10-$20k would buy them. As Jay Leno says; "You never sell". IF only I had listened to to that mantra.


Best regards!

Tom

[LiveFromNY]

Mark,
It’s actually not your ad if it’s on a public forum that specifies that once posted the info becomes public domain.

MUCH more complicated than that, Frank. Especially on a forum like this with its rudimentary terms and conditions. Under the right circumstances, posts could become property of the site owner. Rarely would anyone's post automatically become public domain. Lots of annoying case law on this (some of it paid for by me).

[LiveFromNY]

The winds have changed. When I started doing this, complaints led me to invest a lot of time cleaning out completed ads with no price. Gonna just leave things be now. Will save me a BUNCH of time. The rickrick ad is back up. Back to our regularly scheduled program.

Thanks for listening, Peter.