Well, that was an ordeal. I bought said truck. It's worth 35k, pretty easily. I had to get someone to come drive it back for me, 'cause I didn't want to take up even more time.
You going to have your guys go through it and then sell it?
Not yet. The guy told me that he'd be back with $15k within 2 weeks. I told him that I'd sell it back to him if he did so.
At 2 weeks and a day, I'll have the mechanics go through it and probably sell it to a dealer for a few bucks less than what we could get, just for the quick and easy sale. I'll sell it to a dealer for what they'd pay as a trade-in, so 28k or so. Figure everything the mechanics will do is worth less than a grand, more likely a couple hundred dollars TOPS, and I'll have made a pretty healthy profit.
But, they can come back and pay me 15k so long as it's within the time limit.
I wasn't the one who set the fees. That's what they offered.
The truck is in great shape. There's some scratched paint inside the bed, but it's a truck so of course there is. It does have 80,000 miles on it, but that's fine. It's got the plow package and towing package (no plow came with it).
50% profit in two weeks is pretty damned good
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