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Originally Posted by Jrboulder

I wouldn't buy a vehicle these days, unless I absolutely had to.

I sold 2 very decent cars over the last year and neither one flew off the shelf. They basically ended up going for pre-pandemic prices. Maybe people just aren't bothering to look for private party cars anymore?

Similarly, it almost seems like people have stopped looking for new cars at dealers. I was helping a friend find a Corolla the other day and it was like $2000 cheaper to buy a new one than a 20k mile example from the used-only dealers. The Toyota dealer had dozens of new Corollas on the lot.

When I was a kid, there were tons and tons of cars sold via the classifieds in the newpaper. For years, that's how I bought cars. I've noticed the last several times that I bought cars that there seemed to be fewer and fewer privately sold vehicles, and a lot of the ones listed were horribly misrepresented and or ridiculously priced.

I can only assume that most cars either go to the crusher or a car dealership.