Re: poor manners/investments

["Stephen Bigelow" <sbigelow@sprint.ca>]

>No cutting on 4000CSQ prices.....I wouldn't sell mine for an offer of less
>than 6,500$ at this point.
>1986 4000CS Quattro (somewhere in the neighborhood of 9,000 invested.)

Man, I cringe everytime I see "invested" when somebody is talking about how
much money the have spent on their car. Investments should have a reasonable
expectation of profit.
Repairing your car generally doesn't, or a horrid rate of return.

Maximum Example...hmm....a Dusenberg sells for a million bucks in 1999. What
was it selling price 60 years ago? And how much was spent on it over that
time? (Both, of course, in the dollars of the day)
I'm no classic car expert, nor a achival economist, but I'll bet Dusies cost
more than a _real_ nice house..maybe even several, depending on the model.

Over 60 years, I'll bet the ROI is a pittance.

Our dear lister quoted above has invested $9 and wants $6.5k not a good rate
of return, even assuming he can find a buyer at that price.

It's _spent_, not invested, folks.


Obviously, this is not  flame-bait, as I have a 1984 5000S plain-jane
automatic that I _might_ take $2.5k for...and really (in light of recent
insurance posts) need to get appraised.

Stephen Bigelow
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http://www.countdown9199.com/
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