FS: 2001 PT Cruiser (N.J.)

Discussion in 'Chrysler Parts For Sale / Trade' started by vetteman48, Oct 25, 2005.

  1. vetteman48

    vetteman48 Guest

    vetteman48, Oct 25, 2005
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    David Guest

    over priced!
    Give you $5,000.
     
    David, Oct 25, 2005
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    vetteman48 Guest

    If you go to KBB.com you will find the trade-in value is $6775, the
    private party value is $8390, retail is $10085. I don't see how your
    comment is even remotely accurate and certainly not constructive. I
    don't understand your motive.
    Ron
     
    vetteman48, Oct 25, 2005
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  4. Well for starters this is a discussion group, not a for-sale group. There
    is
    a whole "for.sale.*" series of groups on Usenet that this kind of post is
    more appropriate for. Secondly, your already paying autotrader, if
    you don't think they are advertising your car well enough, why did you
    pay them to begin with.

    There's some tolerance for "for.sale" posts in this group, particularly for
    old/rare/unusual vehicles and parts, particularly from people who's sole
    motivation is to clean out the junk in their garages, rather than make
    money.

    But this tolerance can become abused rather quick, and the readers of
    this group are not interested in wading through 20
    for.sale posts every day just to get to the good stuff. We aren't there
    now but your attitude indicates you think your post is perfectly
    legitimate here, which I am politely trying to tell you it is not. You
    should
    expect a few slings and arrows, and ignore them. Chastising someone
    for poking fun at your inappropriate post is simply going to irritate
    people like me who know how to forge cancellations and may decide
    to go after your post after seeing your responses.

    What I don't understand is that your vehicle is low-miles, it's not a
    bloated Ford Explorer or some other slug that nobody wants, and
    if it's fairly priced I would expect you to sell it within a few days of
    listing it in the local paper. Certainly there's lots of people wanting to
    buy low-mile PT Cruisers in your area. Far more, than the national
    audience here.

    Frankly if I wanted a PT Cruiser like yours I'm sure I would have no
    problem getting one for the same price and equivalent as yours,
    locally. Why would I fly across country to buy yours? It seems to
    me that autotrader is a waste of money, try a local newspaper.

    Ted
     
    Ted Mittelstaedt, Oct 26, 2005
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    vetteman48 Guest

    Wow, did'nt know this would evoke such an emotional response. If you
    go to other newsgroups such as rec.games.pinball you will see many for
    sale ads. My bad. Oh, I didn't know local people to NJ didn't read
    this newsgroup. Again, my bad. Oh, notice the first words of the
    title say for sale. Why not just don't read it if it is so
    objectionable to you? In addition to auto trader the ad appears in two
    local papers as well. Most of my resposes have been local people via
    auto trader. Interesting. I suppose they know how to search by area.
    The reference to auto trader was for an easy way to direct interested
    parties to more information rather than posting a long for sale ad
    here. Yes I was trying to be considerate. And yes this is a newsgroup
    and my opinion counts too. Go ahead and forge a cancellation to this
    post. Hopefully it will make you feel better. That's got to be
    illegal or at least unethical but with my permission shouldn't grate on
    your conscience. Have a nice day.
    Ron
     
    vetteman48, Oct 26, 2005
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    Richard Guest

    craigslist.org is the place to list anything for sale and its free and it
    works.

    Richard
     
    Richard, Oct 26, 2005
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  7. It amazes me you think my response was emotional. It was not. If
    you would like an emotional response I'll be happy to give you one.
    Would it make you feel better if I was calling you names? OK, how
    about dirty filthy spammer? Are you happy now? Does that give you
    warm fuzzies?

    I guess your first line of defense on reading something you don't like
    is to accuse the poster of having an 'emotional response'
    This isn't rec.games.pinball. If many for-sale ads are in that group then
    it's customary for them to be there, thus posting a for sale ad there
    is merely following the standard the users of that group are
    satisfied with.

    The fact there's so few for-sale ads in this group ought to have tipped
    you off that they aren't particulary wanted here.
    consider the ratio of local-NJ people vs the rest of the world on this
    newsgroup.
    Why don't you just delete e-mail spam instead of reading it and complaining?
    Oh I forgot, your AOL so your ISP does that for you. Well there's no AOL
    here to censor every inappropriate post that comes along. Your statement
    is pretty hipocritical. When the day comes that you post using a totally
    un-spamfiltered e-mail address, then you can tell the rest of us to just
    delete
    inappropriate Usenet posts instead of complaining.
    Even more reason not to post here.
    No your not. All you give a damn about is selling your car and
    you don't care who you step on. Are you a regular contributor
    to this group? think about it.
    I'll repeat it again since you didn't read it the first time round:

    "We aren't there now but your attitude indicates you think your post is
    perfectly legitimate here, which I am politely trying to tell you it is not.
    You should expect a few slings and arrows, and ignore them. Chastising
    someone for poking fun at your inappropriate post is simply going to
    irritate
    people"

    Face it, you screwed up. We all do. The honorable thing to do would be to
    apologize and say nothing more. The fact your trying to lamely defend
    your mistake just makes it worse.

    Ted
     
    Ted Mittelstaedt, Oct 27, 2005
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