What's this worth?

[fatherpierre]

I'm pondering this as my next Merc to bomb about in for a bit.

How much as a ball park figure is it worth?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4584070540&sspagename=ADME:L:RTQ:UK:1

 

[KillerHERTZ]

Why is the MOT pic blurred? none of the others are?

Nice motor though

 

[fatherpierre]

No idea.

If I did look at it and there's any hint of anything moody I'd walk away.

At least the HG has been done.

 

[KillerHERTZ]

Summut fishy...

 

[andy_k]

Why is the MOT pic blurred? none of the others are?

Nice motor though

I'd guess that it was taken indoors with no flash - nothing more sinister than that.

What's it worth? going on eBaY's current prices anything up to £1500 but I'd want to get it for about £800

Andy

 

[fatherpierre]

I was thinking around a grand. I've added it to my watch list.

Plenty of them about now so no need to pay over the odds. Plus the seller seems a bit of a tit through email..........

 

[Sp!ke]

You guys are having a laugh... Those prices are far too low for a CE. A saloon car maybe but not a coupe.

£3k I recon.

 

[andy_k]

You guys are having a laugh... Those prices are far too low for a CE. A saloon car maybe but not a coupe.

£3k I recon.

failed to make reserve

and again

and another

and another

Sorry to disagree Sp!ke, there are loads of these cars around and they are just not making the money. I'd suggest it's not the buyers "having a laugh" but the owners who are over valueing their cars in the current market.

When fuel prices are high, small economical cars with all sorts of dealer incentives start to make a lot of sense and values on larger thirsty car fall rapidly.

 

[janner]

This car has been professionally lowered

Using the wrong springs by the look of it! The front is WAY too low. With that ride height it's probably rubbing all over the place and there's no way the alignment can be right. Other than that it looks nice. Why is it on high mileage cars they never show a picture of the driver's seat?
My guess £2-£2.5k

Maybe e-bay isn't the best place to sell a car?

 

[Sp!ke]

Sorry to disagree Sp!ke, there are loads of these cars around and they are just not making the money. I'd suggest it's not the buyers "having a laugh" but the owners who are over valueing their cars in the current market.

None of those cars sold on ebay which basically means you couldn't buy one at those prices.

People aren't willing to let them go for such little money....
Perhaps ebay isn't the best marketplace to sell them but whatever way you look at it, you ain't gonna get a good one for anywhere near the money talked about in the thread.

 

[andy_k]

I agree Sp!ke but it's not the buyer's fault. They decide the market price not the sellers.

At the end of the day a car's true value is only what somebody is willing to pay for it not what somebody expects to sell it for.

I based my guesstimate on the prices these cars are making on eBay and showed those that didn't sell as examples of "over pricing". There are others which have sold where sellers have been less optimistic and placed either realistic or no reserves

Andy

 

[esox]

Maybe e-bay isn't the best place to sell a car?

Seller might accept offers from buyers after auction ends - using fleabay as an advertising medium to gauge interest......

My CLK didnt reach reserve but i sold it to the high bidder after auction ended.....

The examples Andy linked to i didnt think were that desirable,one or more things would put me off.
Even with faults though this one went for £3750.Good spec though,and the provenance of one owner from new made it attractive - not many quality one owner cars about of this age.

Also i think punters will offer low prices in case the car turns out to be a lemon - not everyone views before they buy..

 

[Will]

I've got to say that I agree with Andy to an extent here. Cars sell for what buyers will pay, not the other way around. If a car is too expensive, it will not sell - simple.

Exceptional examples of such cars as Mercedes-Benz can often command very high prices, but older/neglected examples are worth next to nothing due to the amount money that will be needed to put them right, and then they'll still never be as nice as a clean, original, immaculate car.

I'd say that many people pay too much for cars on eBay for the simple reason that there's so much competition no-one is willing to let a bargain slip past their nose

Just IMHO

Will

 

[Sp!ke]

But the question here is not what you an sell one for but what you an buy one for.

If you wanted mine for 3K for example, I wouldnt sell it to you. That is not to say I could sell it for much more its just the point that I would rather keep it for that money.

 

[996jimbo]

I partially agree [EDIT: with Will above] but the fact that so many cars (and bikes for that matter) don't sell on eBay does kinda suggest that everyone's looking for something cheap on eBay and generally not willing to pay full value.

Buyers don't set the market price on their own; sellers' got to be prepared to sell at a price.

EDIT: and therefore agree with Sp!ke

Phrew. Got there in the end - must type faster next time.

 

[Will]

The point still stands though, if a buyer genuinely wants to sell a car, he will have to accept whatever he is given. It's all very well having a personal opinion of what a particular car is worth to you, but buyers will always dictate prices.

If the car in this thread has a reserve of £3000, and the seller gets it - brilliant, that is the car's value based upon what someone will actually pay. I don't reckon it'll fetch that, lets see how it does.

I reckon I could choose 10 overpriced cars in an autotrader that I could phone up, and that at least 9 of them would not have sold.

I could probably pick out 10 bargain cars and that 9 of them would have gone.

Some specialist cars inevitably take longer to sell, but I've seen loads of overpriced cars sit for ages and ages, losing money all the time!

Will

 

[esox]

failed to make reserve

and again

and another

and another

This one(the thread topic) didnt sell either.

 

[andy_k]

What's it worth? going on eBaY's current prices anything up to £1500

Andy

tee hee - I wasn't far out with the guess either

I don't want to start the whole "my car's worth more than that" discussion again but either sellers accept their is currently a dip in the value of second hand cars or they just ain't going to sell them.

A second hand car is only worth what a buyer is willing to pay.

Andy

 

[fatherpierre]

Yet another one of these not making reserve. I think sellers of these seem to think they're worth big money.

I was looking at one (same year as this one) with a few less miles and no history. I asked the seller what his reserve was and he said he wouldn't let it go for.......


















































any less than £5000 LOL. It didn't make much over a grand so made about 20% of its reserve.

 

[Thmsshaun]

Ebay is where you go to look for something cheap. If you have something you consider to be special well looked after and clean Ebay may not be the best place to sell. Look at 500E's E500 for example. £5777 it was stolen from him.

It all depends on how quickly you want the sale as well. take my C43 I consider a bargain. The seller let it go for what I wanted to pay But I have not seen an estate for sale since the ones I was looking at. So really if he held out and I still wanted one I would have paid more.

Then is this just beacuse its an AMG and a rare model so I suppose you cant really compare the two. Truth is it works both ways to an extent. For the sellers to hold out for the right money or the buyer to hold out for the bargain. Its trying to get them both to match in the middle.