Do you actually manage to get dealers to buy flipped cars you clean up? I never been so lucky.
No not yet.
I was hauling there to get the fuel pump and filter changed. I'm to old to do that without a lift. If there was more room to work maybe. I dropped tank on a full size ram van last year by myself and reinstalled by my self...
WOW!
At 50 years a man just got to know his limitations! LOL
I'm dropping a fuel pump and filter off at Ford at 7AM. I'll be picking it up on Friday. By Sat at noon I'll have it finished detailed all fluids topped and Ford will be servicing the tranny and transfer case too. Now I'll have all the fresh reciepts to turn over to the new owner. It should be sold by 9.17.11. I very rarely have a car last more than 48 hours. Besides the Darts and the car hauler the longest we kept one driving it everyday was about a month or 2. I would have loved to have kept that last caravan but I needed a dang house payment again.
OH! I just remembered, I'll have to mow the lot I use on the side of the highway! My grandpa sold a few cars off that same spot. I have real good luck there too, as long as the price is cheap. The auctions I go to lately the cars are selling for retail or above what I would sell them for. it's getting harder to find any cars 1500 and under with an engine in them let alone running and driving.
I'll be able to dig a couple up this winter but can't really filp in winter. I loose my work area when weather gets funkey.
After the auctions, I usually stop by all the dealers looking for wholesale cars (BACK of lot)
Well there aren't any!! People are driving them. I went into the chebby dealer today. After being passed around I met with the guy I would buy from right? Well he's only in 2-3 days a week. The rest of the time he's in Orlando, Atlanta, Durham, buying all the good used cars he can get and shipping them back up here to the dealer, no matter the make or model.
Reason I stopped there today was to fish them out. I just saw a TV ad where they were using alot of the same ad copy as me....
"Cash for your car Running or Not!
"Top cash prices paid to you on the spot, towing free"
Their ad copy;
"Bring in your used car and trade it in. If you don't want to trade just sell it to us. We are paying top cash prices for your used car running or not"
So I stopped by there today to see what the score was.
I think I finally got it all figured out now.
Dealer buys all he or she can.
They turn into place like manhiem auto auctions who charges me the public $200.00 for a 6 month pass to be able to come in and bid on cars.
Now here's the rub. These dealers bring like 10 cars to sell. (most of these were cars he bought there 5 weeks ago and can't sell) So while his cars are selling, He buys 10 more different cars to take back to lot. Fresh inventory every 5 weeks. Constant new customers due to constant new cars. They are playing the numbers. They don't want the public there either. They have like 4 auction lanes running at the same time. I (the public) can only bid on like 50 - 75 cars a week in 1 lane only not being able to bid in the dealer lanes. But the dealers can come over and bid in my lane on the public offered cars. What a crock!! They will come over and bid it up if it is a deal. Usually bidding against me and other public untill it goes over retail price. Don't hurt them none. They think you the public will walk over and make them an offer or the other 5 weeks of public going by their lot will buy it. If not, they just run it through the same auction again!!
Keep in mind, I on the other hand being private would only buy up to 1 car a week and not bring it back through so auction wouldn't make as much in fees. Also the dealers buy and sell at auction with auction credit available to "dealers" only, not the private sector like me.
I want my $200 6 month bidding fee back!!
Junk cars for scrap? Not out there.
Fixer uppers you can buy for 5 or 6, put 3 or 4 in them and ask 18 sell for 16? 1 comes along about 1 a month on average. But still only get about 10 a year.
Boring huh! LMAO!!
Well have a great day tomorrow Asktoro!
I'll be at manhiem in the AM wishing I could buy something. Last week I did find out about a tow away lane I could bid in. (Now that's my style) I'm still not sure how those titles come back though. They have up to 28 days to give you your title. I can't have my money tied that long so I only will bid on cars that are green lighted with titles there on premisies.
Nahhh I aint spendin the $30 in fuel to go over there.
I'll just wait till this Sat and chapter 37 of
CAR HUNT! FABOZENE:cool:
At least if I don't come home with that car, there will be a good reason for it other than some auto auction dealer biddin BS!
Think I'll clean the garage up tomorrow. I can't find anything in there after a summer season of restore work!:glasses7:
