Interesting 81 for Sale - Says 19,000 Original Miles

[Exit98]

Spotted this on Hartford CT Craigslist - Wants $25K:

http://hartford.craigslist.org/cto/3480682335.html

Looks very sharp. Aggressive pricing. Wonder if its someone on this board.

I doubt Craigslist is the right venue for this car. Ebay or a big auction might get better results.

[blakevan]

Looks great but I wonder why he picked that price?

[ronarthur]

You would think that at that price, there would be at least one picture of the engine compartment.

[Exit98]

You would think that at that price, there would be at least one picture of the engine compartment.

Yeah, good point.

I'm constantly amazed with the folks on Craigslist and Ebay, for example, that haven't a clue to even the most basic, obvious, marketing 101.

I mean, if you really want to sell your Spider for $25K you might want to spend a few hours taking pictures, and not with a telephone. And take a little time to to tell me why I'd want to buy this car too.

And I love the ads that tell me not to waste the guy's time, and no tire kickers either. Hey, get in line, take a number.

[narfire]

Car does look good. I suppose for more pics, one could ask for engine shots under car ect. Yes on ebay I've seen must be upwards of 50 pics from every angle,helps...sure.
Remember not long ago an early car went for $40,000.00 or more at auction. perhaps someone will bite for the low milage car. Another 10 grand and you are starting into the Volumex territory,more like what I'd be going for if I had the loot
Chris

[azruss]

low light pix, no engine pix, no undercarriage pix, 19k miles....smells fishy to me.

[aj81spider]

Not sure about Hartford, but Fiats on Boston's Craigslist sit around for months to sometimes years at $4,000 (There's an 850 up for $5500 that has been reposted for about 2 years now). It's nicer than most - so at $4000 it might go faster than a year - but he could be waiting a long time to sell it at that price. For significantly less than that you can get a C5 Corvette.

[SLOSpider]

Someone has been watching too much TV. I think Ill write and point out his typo.

[spidernut]

Looks clean but I also question why with only 19,000 miles that it has replacement carpets and a replacement console (or console cap). The dash looks like a replacement or a cap but I can't tell for sure since there are no close-ups. I would expect more pics of the engine and undercarriage as well.

[vandor]

FWIW both the exterior mirror and the tenth digit on the odometer shows that this is a '80, not a '81.
A '81 would have 6 mile digits and no tenths, so it would show the true mileage.

[modoc]

It"s obvous whats going on here..... his wife\girlfrend is pressuring him to sell and he priced it so high that likly it wont move so he gets to keep it, also if he does sell it for that much....good for him and go get another, win win.