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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

It’s great for sellers and window shoppers! I’m also old fashioned and can’t fathom buying an old used car online unless it’s a smoking deal or I know the seller. I watched an R129 last week that in my opinion had a bunch of red flags but still went for over $20k.

That's me, I'm not buying a car until I've seen it in person and if possible, started and driven it. If I can't start and drive it, then it's got to be at a price that reflects that. "Looks good" doesn't mean diddly as far as mechanicals go. Could have no pistons or fried pistons or cracked head and block or ...

I'm not sure that anything on BaT ever seems like a "great deal" from a buyer perspective, but then I don't spend that much time on it.