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Originally Posted by artie_nash

Buyers are liars and sellers are too...In my opinion and experience anything you can do - everything else being equal - to neck down and reduce your exposure to the dreamers, freaks, flakes, floaters, scam artists, shill bidders, screamers and wannabes will increase the likelihood of a successful transaction...So many people have so many misconceptions about motor vehicles in general and the market reality in particular it's a wonder to me anything ever gets sold...Almost every legitimate commercial dealer in the United Sates reports the financial details of nearly every transaction to a handful of central data aggregators for the purpose of establishing and measuring the market...But the mounds of data generated are only as meaningful as the party interpreting same...After many years of buying and selling at practically every level of the marketplace I have concluded a successful vehicle transaction is a lot like settling a civil action: If both parties feel like they could have done a little bit better it was probably within the parameters of reality...Your mileage may vary...RTN/XXX/OOO

That was a great!