[racer]

Sometimes a sale is a relationship.. In a first email I ask only 2-3 simple questions.. to get a feel for the type of seller I would be dealing with. If those are answered I might respond with more questions or reach out and call the seller. I could see how opening up with 10-15 questions can be seen as obnoxious. It may also be the seller has had 10 or more of these same types of emails and feels under pressure to know more about the car than maybe he does know. Maybe he's provided those answers to 10 other folks and never heard back and wonders WTH is with these picky Porsche buying pricks .

Also, depending on how good the seller is and if they know the market they've pitched the car to, questions like the ones you asked would have been answered in a detailed original ad posting.