Ok guys, I am hoping to bounce this little odd question off some of you. By pure random chance yesterday I happened to be looking at used-car listings in the Houston area, and I saw an 'exotic' car for sale. It's a 2007, has less than 8k miles on it, and the photos show it to be in pristine condition, as well as the Carfax for the VIN shows no history (so I assume it has not been wrecked). Here's the deal. EVERY comparable car, same model, year, everything, every other one out there I can find has this car listed anywhere from 130k and up. But not this one I happened to see. It is listed for 45k. Now that's still out of my price range, not to mention the insurance would be double what I am paying now. But 45k for a car that could/should/(would?) easily sell for over 100k, well, I just don't get it. Now I know, when a deal seems 'too good to be true', there is almost always a good reason for this. But still, it is stuck in my head. I keep thinking, if nothing else, flip the thing and pocket maybe 50-60k, which would not be a bad haul at all. Have any of you ever come across something like this before? I am thinking it may be some kind of vehicle for sale in a divorce, or maybe it has been flooded, I don't know. Got to be some reason why it is selling for a third of its normal price.. Argh, this is going to annoy me to no end!
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I find it hard to believe the seller of an exotic 100k+ vehicle doesn't know the selling price of his own car.
Just call and go check it out you never know. Carfax doesn't always reveal the truth however, cost me 20 bucks and a 75 mile drive to figure out.
Some are too dependant on Carfax. Carfax doesn't know all, and in fact, sometimes, knows nothing. Common sense here. Why would someone sell a car for $45K when they can sell it for $130K?
It's a scam. The pictures and VIN numbers are from another advertisement somewhere else. I've seen this many times while I was looking to buy my car online. I did eventually buy my car on Ebay and had the used car company that listed it send me everything from their license to their bond information. But I found a bunch of scammers too. Do a quick Google search on that VIN and it might come up. I found one like that on a car my brother found that was a very 'good' price.
