nysupraman

Hey folks, I wanted to get your opinion on a vehicle I found for sale. It's a local 2013 Black/Black L-Certified F Sport with Mark Levinson, LED, AWD, Air Suspension. Vehicle has 81.2k miles and is listed at the Lexus Dealership for $32k. Clean history, fully serviced at the dealership, records online. What kind of offer do you think would be fair to shoot them with? I was thinking of starting with $29k. Also should the mileage concern me? There is a similarly equipped vehicle, also local, with 31k on the meter for $10k more, for comparison. The other vehicle is missing the Mark Levinson audio.

Shad034

According to blackbook, they probably took this one in between 21k and 27k. Black retail for average in NY is $32.8. Its competitively listed at 32k, but I always try to come down by 10% on my initial offer. So coming in at 29k to start is probably pretty good in my opinion, although I'd expect them to walk me up a bit. If you've got a trade, its more complicated of course. I'm always looking to get my money somewhere, either in higher trade value or lower purchase price.

If you have the VIN, you can probably get a more exact number from blackbook. You can also look up the other car there and your trade as well. Here is the portal I use.

http://www.blackbookportals.com/bb/p...=thinkbank.COM


As far as the mileage goes, I wouldn't worry about it. I'll caveat by saying I'm fairly new here, but I've noted a few things. First, I've never seen a forum where people routinely talk about their cars that have over 100k like its normal. Second, if you look at used car listings a lot, you'll see a TON of 2007-2010 cars for sale and they start dropping off rapidly at that point. Hard to find more than a few 2013+ cars on the market at a given time. That tells me people buy them and then keep them for years before trading up.

nysupraman

Thanks, good advice!

EddieP1215

Seems like a good price to me. As said above start at 29K. You won't be disappointed in the car.

Sidebar...Did/do you own a Supra? I have a 95 TT.