ISF used parts market
04-12-17, 01:47 PM
#20
I agree. I see lots of used parts demanding top dollar. However, there are cases of fluctuating prices--KW coilovers bounced between 2200-2700MSRP, affecting used party sales--and of course, availability--pay 1000 used to get it now rather than paying 1200 to get it in a few months.
I mean if I sold my joe z exhaust for almost new price, and someone said okay cool, you think I wouldn't sell it? haha
04-12-17, 05:44 PM
#22
Racer
Thread Starter
04-12-17, 08:32 PM
#23
Intermediate
The other part of the equation is cheap buyers on CL in general and the IS-F community in particular. Coming from the Supra community, this surprised me quite a bit. I assumed, wrongly as it turned out, that guys and gals paying $55k-$65k for a new IS-F would be similar to used parts buyers in the Supra community. Boy was I wrong.
I try to establish competitive prices in the first place, so I'm not one to negotiate on price. I sold a single owner '07 IS-350, with all records, and 69k miles about 1 1/2 years ago for $17k. EVERY offer I received on CL, except the winning one, wanted me to reduce the price by $3-4k, hold the car, take payments, you name it. It took a while, but I finally sold the car.
I also had a BNIB set of PPE headers I purchased in FIGS' group buy. The headers were never unboxed. I finally decided to sell them for what I paid for them $1600, but dropped the price to $1,4xx when I was informed the headers were cast steel and not the stainless steel I had represented in my OP. Again, I received every cockamamie offer you can imagine until, 6-months after I posted my for sale thread, I sold the headers for my asking price.
I currently have a 13.7k mile OEM LSD for sale from my 2010 IS-F. I no longer need it because I have the OS Giken TCD LSD in my car. I checked dealer pricing before putting it up for sale ($4,5xx) for $1,500. Once again, I've been deluged with offers that are just plain insulting. I rarely sell parts because it's such a hassle for me. That said, OEM parts for my Supras and the IS-F deserve special consideration because of the rarity of the cars and, in the case of my Supras, parts that are NLA. As a result, I have no problem retaining such parts and, in the uncommon event, I put such items up for sale, I either get my price, or retain ownership, a win-win for me either way.
CL contains an inordinate number of out and out cheap asses, so a thread on this topic does not surprise me in the least.
Ken.
I try to establish competitive prices in the first place, so I'm not one to negotiate on price. I sold a single owner '07 IS-350, with all records, and 69k miles about 1 1/2 years ago for $17k. EVERY offer I received on CL, except the winning one, wanted me to reduce the price by $3-4k, hold the car, take payments, you name it. It took a while, but I finally sold the car.
I also had a BNIB set of PPE headers I purchased in FIGS' group buy. The headers were never unboxed. I finally decided to sell them for what I paid for them $1600, but dropped the price to $1,4xx when I was informed the headers were cast steel and not the stainless steel I had represented in my OP. Again, I received every cockamamie offer you can imagine until, 6-months after I posted my for sale thread, I sold the headers for my asking price.
I currently have a 13.7k mile OEM LSD for sale from my 2010 IS-F. I no longer need it because I have the OS Giken TCD LSD in my car. I checked dealer pricing before putting it up for sale ($4,5xx) for $1,500. Once again, I've been deluged with offers that are just plain insulting. I rarely sell parts because it's such a hassle for me. That said, OEM parts for my Supras and the IS-F deserve special consideration because of the rarity of the cars and, in the case of my Supras, parts that are NLA. As a result, I have no problem retaining such parts and, in the uncommon event, I put such items up for sale, I either get my price, or retain ownership, a win-win for me either way.
CL contains an inordinate number of out and out cheap asses, so a thread on this topic does not surprise me in the least.
Ken.
04-14-17, 07:27 PM
#24
Originally Posted by KJH
The other part of the equation is cheap buyers on CL in general and the IS-F community in particular. Coming from the Supra community, this surprised me quite a bit. I assumed, wrongly as it turned out, that guys and gals paying $55k-$65k for a new IS-F would be similar to used parts buyers in the Supra community. Boy was I wrong.
I try to establish competitive prices in the first place, so I'm not one to negotiate on price. I sold a single owner '07 IS-350, with all records, and 69k miles about 1 1/2 years ago for $17k. EVERY offer I received on CL, except the winning one, wanted me to reduce the price by $3-4k, hold the car, take payments, you name it. It took a while, but I finally sold the car.
I also had a BNIB set of PPE headers I purchased in FIGS' group buy. The headers were never unboxed. I finally decided to sell them for what I paid for them $1600, but dropped the price to $1,4xx when I was informed the headers were cast steel and not the stainless steel I had represented in my OP. Again, I received every cockamamie offer you can imagine until, 6-months after I posted my for sale thread, I sold the headers for my asking price.
I currently have a 13.7k mile OEM LSD for sale from my 2010 IS-F. I no longer need it because I have the OS Giken TCD LSD in my car. I checked dealer pricing before putting it up for sale ($4,5xx) for $1,500. Once again, I've been deluged with offers that are just plain insulting. I rarely sell parts because it's such a hassle for me. That said, OEM parts for my Supras and the IS-F deserve special consideration because of the rarity of the cars and, in the case of my Supras, parts that are NLA. As a result, I have no problem retaining such parts and, in the uncommon event, I put such items up for sale, I either get my price, or retain ownership, a win-win for me either way.
CL contains an inordinate number of out and out cheap asses, so a thread on this topic does not surprise me in the least.
Ken.
I try to establish competitive prices in the first place, so I'm not one to negotiate on price. I sold a single owner '07 IS-350, with all records, and 69k miles about 1 1/2 years ago for $17k. EVERY offer I received on CL, except the winning one, wanted me to reduce the price by $3-4k, hold the car, take payments, you name it. It took a while, but I finally sold the car.
I also had a BNIB set of PPE headers I purchased in FIGS' group buy. The headers were never unboxed. I finally decided to sell them for what I paid for them $1600, but dropped the price to $1,4xx when I was informed the headers were cast steel and not the stainless steel I had represented in my OP. Again, I received every cockamamie offer you can imagine until, 6-months after I posted my for sale thread, I sold the headers for my asking price.
I currently have a 13.7k mile OEM LSD for sale from my 2010 IS-F. I no longer need it because I have the OS Giken TCD LSD in my car. I checked dealer pricing before putting it up for sale ($4,5xx) for $1,500. Once again, I've been deluged with offers that are just plain insulting. I rarely sell parts because it's such a hassle for me. That said, OEM parts for my Supras and the IS-F deserve special consideration because of the rarity of the cars and, in the case of my Supras, parts that are NLA. As a result, I have no problem retaining such parts and, in the uncommon event, I put such items up for sale, I either get my price, or retain ownership, a win-win for me either way.
CL contains an inordinate number of out and out cheap asses, so a thread on this topic does not surprise me in the least.
Ken.
04-14-17, 08:05 PM
#25
Racer
Thread Starter
Being frugal is just smart. I've been modding cars for years. Been able to walk away from most of my mods with minimal loss due to deals from classifieds. Just being smart with money, because I like it too much to throw it away
04-14-17, 09:46 PM
#26
Not sure why the "crackhead", or other negatives comments were nesseary in this thread.
Last edited by msgs350; 04-14-17 at 09:50 PM.
04-14-17, 11:01 PM
#27
Tech Info Resource
iTrader: (2)
Sounds like you don't frequent the classifieds here. I don't even bother with listing anything here anymore. Total waste of time. Craigslist is way better and doesn't have all the thread crappers and cheap asses we have here. Sorry if it offends, but it is my observation after being here 10 years.
04-15-17, 12:57 AM
#28
Racer
Thread Starter
Haha I see it's opposite. You asking $50 less than MSRP as new, on a used part, you are a smoking crack. Sorry but just like a new car, you assume the loss of being the guy who had to have it fresh and new.
04-15-17, 05:04 PM
#29
Intermediate
My headers were BNIB. My used 2010 OEM LSD has 13.7k miles and I listed it for one-third of the MSRP. Still received an abundance of crazy, low-ball offers. It is the way of the world on CL and people have no idea what the word "FIRM" means. I still receive cheap-*** offers even though I've made it clear my price is firm and it's not a distressed sale.
Lobuxracer is right. These kind of buyers are endemic on CL. On Supraforums, a low-ball offer is defined by the for sale rules as any offer less than 10% of the asking price and any discussion of price is deleted from the thread with the strong suggestion that such discussions take place via PM. In my for sale thread for my headers, I had to ask lobuxracer to delete a couple threads by a member who began crapping in my thread because I turned down his low-ball offer.
I'm cool if I don't sell my LSD but, if I do, I won't be trying to sell any more parts on CL. Life is already too short and I can't handle the brain damage.
Ken.
Lobuxracer is right. These kind of buyers are endemic on CL. On Supraforums, a low-ball offer is defined by the for sale rules as any offer less than 10% of the asking price and any discussion of price is deleted from the thread with the strong suggestion that such discussions take place via PM. In my for sale thread for my headers, I had to ask lobuxracer to delete a couple threads by a member who began crapping in my thread because I turned down his low-ball offer.
I'm cool if I don't sell my LSD but, if I do, I won't be trying to sell any more parts on CL. Life is already too short and I can't handle the brain damage.
Ken.
04-15-17, 05:43 PM
#30
-R