Super deal on /6 conversion, craigslist ad Options

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Craigslist

Appears to be a running, but very rough car. Could easily be broken up for at least $4000 in parts.

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QUOTE (jkeyzer @ May 25 2005, 09:03 AM)

I always feel bad when you guys cross post this stuff on 914club. You are hurting the people who take the time to scan Craigslist every day in search of a 914 bargain.  Once a post like this hits the club, 50 highly motivated people all run at once to buy.  It benefits the seller tremendously but not the avg Joe buyer.  Same thing is true of ebay auctions.  Cross posting on the club is the best free advertising a seller could ever get, especially when it's a "diamond in the rough" deal like this one could be. Anyone else have opinions about this? Disclaimer: I am just griping out loud, no personal offense meant to ANYONE by what I say.

You might feel this way because you're a buyer, not a seller. (I'm not a seller either, but...) We live in a free-market economy. The more effectively you link up buyers and sellers the more efficient the market is. The more efficient the market is the more it's fair. By fair I mean that the benefits of commerce are not weighted in favor of one group or another. If buyers are kept in the dark so the few can get "a steal" you can see that the result is a few buyers benefit at the expense of the seller. What you're saying is "I want a small group of buyers to have an unfair advantage." This mentalilty can get you a good deal in the short run, but harms the market. Commerce must be mutually beneficial to both buyers and sellers or the market will fail. If sellers find that they can't get fair prices they stop selling. Then both the buyers and sellers suffer. If sellers can easily connect with buyers and get fair prices they will continue to sell. Buyers and sellers both get what they wanted, the market grows, and we all reap the benefits.

-Ben M.

ps - the whole reason for the Craigslist/Ebay sucess is due to how efficiently they link up buers/sellers. Trying to hinder their efficiency is fighting against the basic reason they work.