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What's the point of this???

Old 06-16-16, 06:28 PM
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2010 with 3400 miles??? $43.5k??? What was the point of even buying that car? Or waiting till now to sell it?


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Assuming 20k in depreciation, they blew $5.88 for every mile they drove...sad. Shoot, with TTT and assuming they are lucky to get 40k, that's more like 30k depreciation which would be $8.82 per mile driven. Crazy.

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Pretty stupid really. Because they could have actually drove it and enjoyed it and likely not have lost much more than what they are asking for it.
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Got my 2008 in 2014 with 5,700 miles on it for $38k. Their garage queen was my gain
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The point is for a true enthusiast to scoop it up
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Good for whomever buys it, lol.

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There could of been many different stories as to why it has such low miles, or it could also be that the person hoped to try to flip the car haha
I remember reading about an ISF on here that someone bought with super low miles, i believe less than 1000. Don't remember the full detail but it was an older guy who was injured and couldn't drive the car and then passed away so wife sold the car.
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I could swear I saw that car last year when I was looking for my F! I bet money that it's been for sale for over a year, or they tried last year for a while then took it down come fall and relisted again this spring/summer?
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I wonder if it's even had its first oil change!
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Originally Posted by Jz39
I wonder if it's even had its first oil change!
Which would be absolutely horrible. Thus why these mega low miles cars I find more potentially problematic than one that was at least driven on a semi regular basis and still had regular maintenance done by time intervals.
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Originally Posted by lexicon72
Got my 2008 in 2014 with 5,700 miles on it for $38k. Their garage queen was my gain
Bought my 2009 in 2010 with 3500 miles.
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Originally Posted by Jz39
Assuming 20k in depreciation, they blew $5.88 for every mile they drove...sad. Shoot, with TTT and assuming they are lucky to get 40k, that's more like 30k depreciation which would be $8.82 per mile driven. Crazy.
Thanks for helping me feel dumb today. How in the hell did you figure that out? PS, math destroys me
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Originally Posted by isfdave86
Thanks for helping me feel dumb today. How in the hell did you figure that out? PS, math destroys me
LOL!!

Let's say purchase price with TTT is around 70k out the door.

Let's assume they are lucky to get $40k on the resale.

That's 30k depreciation hit. Divide that by the mileage and you get the cost per mile driven.

Throwing out nearly a ten-spot for every mile driven!
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What's the point of this thread???
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Originally Posted by isfdave86
Thanks for helping me feel dumb today. How in the hell did you figure that out? PS, math destroys me
....you did also scratch your windshield with a squeegee until we all finally figured out what really happened

Cheers!!

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