This grinds my gears

[DefianceEngineCompany]

Nothing worse than people willing to trash a good light when people are willing to pay.

 

[CrownVic97]

Some people are special like that....wave money in their face and they're still indignant of what they're being shown.

 

[Stampeed Valkyrie]

I am willing to bet he thinks your a scammer. Any possibility you can find someone local to go get it?

 

[shues]

This is a good idea! Where is the seller located?

 

[DefianceEngineCompany]

I am willing to bet he thinks your a scammer. Any possibility you can find someone local to go get it?

It’s about a 4 hour drive from me one way

 

[Stampeed Valkyrie]

It’s about a 4 hour drive from me one way

Yeah I found it on Facebook, I'd offer to help but your much closer then I am.

 

[JohnMarcson]

I had a guy selling a early 1990s ambulance (over 250k miles) who was pretty local to me. He was asking $5500, it was listed as "starts and runs". But it clearly needed tires so I assume also brakes etc (who knows). I offered him $1k to come to him and professionally remove the light bar, primary lights, siren, flasher, and all other emergency equipment and gave examples (pictures) of how any holes would be professionally patched. Keep in mind this is a vehicle that is only going to be attractive to a plumber or contractor, never seeing emergency use again. In fact, depending on where it was sold, those lights needed to come off anyway, and if anything were reducing the appeal to his primary customer base (I even mentioned I'd leave the flood lights). So I'm offering him close to 20% of the total asking price to get rid of items that were unnecessary, if not problematic, to the sale of the vehicle. He replies that he'll just send it to the junkyard if he doesn't get the full price and said that my offer was too low to "ruin the appearance". I replied with "feel free to shoot me a counter offer". He replied that my first offer was too insulting and he's not an idiot so he was just going to junk the truck. Since he had to mention he "was not an idiot" I figured he probably was, so out of curiosity, I called the salvage yard that I sometimes go to and asked what he would get for it. They said less than my offer to remove the lights, adding that they didn't particularly like getting emergency vehicles because of some surprises they had found in them previously like hidden electrical hazards etc. Not to mention that they are made of numerous different materials, hard to pull apart into a chassis, and the parts (not matching the vin usually) are hard to categorize (list in the computer) to sell.

Some people are just special.

 

[Stampeed Valkyrie]

Some people are just special.

I am officially adding this quote to my signature line.. properly accredited of course!