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11-17-2013 09:03 AM |
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Originally Posted by WANNA930
(Post 7759556)
I have to ask why is someone offering $250k not a traditional sale but going through an auction house is?
If you go through an auction you take the chance it won't hit the $250k and even then you have to pay the commission so you aren't coming home with $250k
This car must have some sentimental value to your friend. If the buyer is real and this is in the ballpark for the car, why not????
I would rather sell to a private person vs an auction any day of the week. More personal sale and if it is a car you want to wind up in the hands of another good home you have the chance to feel the person out.
Wild car and goo luck either way!!!
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1) This is a rare car. It has significant history if there is only three in the world, and Porsche owns two. Some guy walks up your driveway and offers $250K and there, again, there are three in the world. Porsche raced the other two at LeMans. I don't know what you mean by 'traditional' sale as I never used this term. And to answer your question 'Why not?' - I say who knows what ballpark is on this car, and again, there are very few true 914 specials or variants.
2) Obviously you don't know how many classic auto auctions work. The seller would put a reserve on the car that he thought was fair and the car would not sell until that reserve price had been met. The commission you are talking about is low compared (8%) to what the car would be receiving as far as attention and press.
3) If sold in the right auction (Porsche) in a prestigious venue, this car would easily clear 250K if the history was correct as well as provenance. I don't understand why people think this is unreasonable as every Carrera RS I have seen for sale in the past few years have all gone through auction houses, reached incredible sums, and they made 1500 more of them compared to this car. This is not some pedestrian 914.
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