Zack914 with 4 posts has been asking for a 914-6 for a while on the board. . I get an email about mine. . . we exchange email info on the car.
He said his name is XXXXX and uses a email id in the same name. He says he just sold his business, has full cash available, and wants a nice 914-6 to drive . . . Red Flag No. 1. . .
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Personal Message
zack914
Toolguy
Ill buy it for 87k have cash ready and can pickup this weekend
Please call and arrange at HIS NUMBER
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My immediate thought was 'Nigerian Prince' thingy. . A few more emails and we talk. . . So he takes the car at asking price and I include multiple spare original parts. We agree on a pick-up date one week out. I tell him I have a custom trailer available also and give him the price. He asks for pictures. . I send pictures of trailer with car on it and a letter with full disclosure on all aspects of the car. .
. . . He calls back a few days later and now wants to beat me up on the price of the car AND the trailer. . . . We settled on the 'new' price.. . . Red Flag No.2
I pull all the spare parts and documentation and get the car ready to go. The night before pickup date, he calls and now wants a lower price/ / Red Flag No.3
I refused and hung up. .
2 hours later I get an email where he changes his last discount amount to a few hundred dollars. . mind you this is without seeing the car so that should have been another red flag warning to me. . I tell him be here by noon, with $$$ in hand or don't show up. . . . he said he can do that. He said he has the money wired to his account at the local Chase bank for us to pick up. . I say call when he's an hour away. he says OK, see you at noon. . .
Noon arrives and no show or call.. . 2 hours later there is a knock and here is a man and lady to look at the car. . introduces himself as Ryan. .no mention about not being here on time. . .
I show him the car, he looks for 4-5 minutes, asks a few questions, and he wants to hear it run. . I fire it off.. .
He then says it isn't what he wants.. the lady addresses him by either Fred or Frank { either way, I'm certain that it wasn't Ryan} at one point in the conversation. . . Red Flag No.3 . . In my mind I go is this about and start to have some really bad feelings about the possibilities. . They leave. . .
SO my assumptions are now either
1 He wants something better than my car. .
2 - He's a lookey loo who doesn't know exactly what he really wants
3 - Hes a reseller looking to score low ball deal
4- OR, and most troubling to me, this is a scam of sorts. I called a police buddy, and get a warning about internet deals for high dollar cars where this 'car inspection' is really a chance to case the place for a future theft. .
At this point, I don't know his intentions and I may be all wet, but I certainly did not have a warm fuzzy feeling with this encounter.. . . Whatever the case, screw it, I'm keeping the car for the next year and I'm certain the price of real 6's will continue to climb if I decide to sell later. . or just start driving it myself. . .
Note: I had a recent conversation [10-10-14] with Zach914, who said he didn't buy my car because it was not up to his standards. . To be fair to him, we agreed this was simple a matter of us disagreeing on our perception of what constitutes as Concour car, and not any ulterior motives.