Does ebay work for buying/selling Porsches?

pryord · pryord's Garage

Does anyone actually have experience buying or selling Porsches on ebay? Any advice? Do the selling prices accurately reflect non-auction values of these cars?

Thanks,
David

cary · 12-20-2001, 09:47 AM

I've bought both mine on E-Bay. But I'm on the lower end of the scale. Both fixer uppers. ( the 914, in Portland )
But this my 3rd and 4th. Porsche I've owning.

All I can say, is that if the selling party won't answer your questions. Specifically, in "writing". MOVE ON.

Also if he/she can't/won't get you jpegs. MOVE ON. With Kodak photodisk any one can get you pictures for $15.

If your picking it up. Don't take a cashiers check for the whole amount. Most of the time something was misrepresented. So I'd have at least 20% in cash. $100 bills.

The values' seem to ok. Unless you get some idiot in there.
Be careful of shadow bidders. ( a friend of the sellers trying to jack the price up). Set a price you'll pay for it and stick with it.

My .02c.

Harold_89_911 · 12-20-2001, 09:53 AM

Worked for me. I bought an 89 Targa last August on e-Bay. However, it was a local car that I had a chance to inspect before bidding. I don't think I would want to buy a 911 on e-Bay sight unseen, especially since a "bad" car can get extremely expensive. The final transaction was do the old fashioned way; cashiers check vs. title.

Prices I have seen on e-Bay are quite a bit lower than classifieds or dealers. But for those you never really know what the actual sell price was. In my case, the PO had it advertised for a while in the LA Times and was asking 27k. I probably would not have bothered calling him about it. I ended up as the only person meeting the reserve at 21k. So it was a good negotiation tool for me.

The other advantage of e-Bay is that it reaches a large audience and the seller can put a lot of detail in the description so you have a good idea what you are going to find.

yelcab1 · 12-20-2001, 05:10 PM

Now,

Real life experience on the selling side.

Works great, reaches lots of people, do include lots of pictures, be as honest as you can about your car, set a low reserve, even lower starting price, do review who is bidding and delete the bids from people with bad reviews,

and then, in the end, you will not get what you want for it. That is just life in the auction lane. So, lower your price expectation.

clubted · 12-20-2001, 10:24 PM

I think it depends on the seller and their willingness to communicate. I bought a wonderful 89 Carrera a couple of months ago sight unseen. It was exactly the car I had been looking for and when I called the seller, a high end dealer in Detroit, we hit it off immediately. I bought it largely on faith and the car was actually better than described. This was my only purchase experience but there have been other great sounding cars advertised. Good luck.