Re: pricing a car to sell -- asking price?

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Thanks Ray. The bottom line is apparently something is "worth" what a buyer is willing to pay for it.  :) 

Gary H. 

>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Ray Bell  
>  
>  A friend of mine recently decided to sell his Toyota pickup. It's a
>  2013 model and he's pretty frail, so he's always considered the
>  suspension a bit too harsh and therefore only driven it when he
>  _really_ needed to get something large. Otherwise he drove his nice
>  soft Corolla. So it's only done 5,500 miles.
>  
>  He asked his son in law about it and he looked up prices on the net.
>  Of course, there's nothing there as brand new or with such low mileage
>  and prices around the $20,000 mark were common. This blew my friend
>  away, he was expecting maybe $10,000. Then a neighbour, learning the
>  pickup was for sale, approached him and asked, "How much?"
>  
>  Bob replied, "I always reckon something is worth as much as someone is
>  prepared to pay for it. You make an offer." And so it sold for $15,000
>  and everyone's happy.
>  
> 

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