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[Wickedheart]

[quote=bearishgurl][quote=Wickedheart]I’ve seen weird listings for cars posted in the arts and craft section lately. They are always newer and too cheap. Yesterday there was a 2009 Toyota for $2900.

http://sandiego.craigslist.org/nsd/art/1836137563.html%5B/quote%5D

Wickedheart, your link shows a 2004 Nissan Maxima, not a Toyota. The ad may be legit as it is licensed in NM – may not have a catalytic converter. It could have also been in a previous flood or wreck where it was “totaled.” Some states do NOT salvage the titles (as CA does) if the owner purchases the car back from the ins. co and fixes it him/herself with some of the ins. proceeds. If interested, check CARFAX on it. [/quote]

There was also a Toyota listed and several other cars from the same seller. The ad was no longer up. The ads are just not right. A flooded car would not be desirable. Carfax only shows reported accidents.

[quote=bearishgurl]A “salvaged” or “wreck” title does not necessarily mean the veh. will be a bad purchase. It depends on where it was hit. Ins. companies routinely salvage vehicles for ridiculous reasons. In the past (not my current veh.), I have purchased two different salvaged vehicles for cheap $$ and drove both of them for a long time – both good buys.[/quote]

Agreed. I wouldn’t call it ridiculous though. If the amount to repair exceeds the value of the vehicle, it will be totaled and salvaged.

[quote=bearishgurl]The owner may have been using the KBB private party values from NM instead of CA to arrive at his/her asking price of $2,900 for 94K+ miles, since that is where the car is licensed. They VERY WELL MAY BE mostly highway miles. The owner may just be a long-term visitor of a friend or relative here or a new arrival and cannot get it licensed here without a lot of headache installing a catalytic converter.
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It is the seller’s responsibility to smog the car, legally.

I still say it’s fishy. This guy’s been posting newer cars for the last couple of weeks and he always posts them in the arts and crafts section. My BS meter has about a 98% accuracy so far.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Wickedheart][quote=bearishgurl] . . . If interested, check CARFAX on it. [/quote]

There was also a Toyota listed and several other cars from the same seller. The ad was no longer up. The ads are just not right. A flooded car would not be desirable. Carfax only shows reported accidents.[/quote]

I agree that a flooded car would not be desirable. CARFAX SHOULD pick up the condition of the title, however.

[quote Wickedheart][quote=bearishgurl]A “salvaged” or “wreck” title does not necessarily mean the veh. will be a bad purchase. It depends on where it was hit. Ins. companies routinely salvage vehicles for ridiculous reasons.[/quote]

Agreed. I wouldn’t call it ridiculous though. If the amount to repair exceeds the value of the vehicle, it will be totaled and salvaged.[/quote]

Actually, it depends on the ins. co. I have seen friends vehicles “totaled” when the value of the damage is only about 30% of the blue book value.

[quote=Wickedheart][quote=bearishgurl] . . . The owner may just be a long-term visitor of a friend or relative here or a new arrival and cannot get it licensed here without a lot of headache installing a catalytic converter.[/quote]

It is the seller’s responsibility to smog the car, legally.[/quote]

Agreed, but I can see some sellers asking the buyer to do it and an ignorant buyer agreeing because of the low sales price and then finding out after the fact that it won’t smog w/o expensive retrofitting.

[quote=Wickedheart]I still say it’s fishy. This guy’s been posting newer cars for the last couple of weeks and he always posts them in the arts and crafts section. My BS meter has about a 98% accuracy so far.[/quote]

Wickedheart, if a single “private party” has been posting several late-model vehicles (in the wrong category, no less), your BS meter is probably accurate on this one. The pic on the link you posted DOES NOT look like the it was taken at a dealer but on private property.

I noticed back in April that a single private party “Alex” had no less that 79 litters of so-called “purebred” puppies for sale in different categories of dogs advertised on craigslist san diego. He’s probably still running these ads and is the US “representative” for Mexican puppy mills that are so rampant in the “pet marketplace” around here. It is so sad because these dogs have so many medical problems due to repeated inbreeding that the vet bills in the first year alone could break the average family who adopts one. They are typically sold out of cardboard boxes in parking lots for $275 to $450 (no papers, of course) when a reputable breeder would charge $850 and up. This makes me sick.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Wickedheart][quote=bearishgurl] . . . If interested, check CARFAX on it. [/quote]

There was also a Toyota listed and several other cars from the same seller. The ad was no longer up. The ads are just not right. A flooded car would not be desirable. Carfax only shows reported accidents.[/quote]

I agree that a flooded car would not be desirable. CARFAX SHOULD pick up the condition of the title, however.

[quote Wickedheart][quote=bearishgurl]A “salvaged” or “wreck” title does not necessarily mean the veh. will be a bad purchase. It depends on where it was hit. Ins. companies routinely salvage vehicles for ridiculous reasons.[/quote]

Agreed. I wouldn’t call it ridiculous though. If the amount to repair exceeds the value of the vehicle, it will be totaled and salvaged.[/quote]

Actually, it depends on the ins. co. I have seen friends vehicles “totaled” when the value of the damage is only about 30% of the blue book value.

[quote=Wickedheart][quote=bearishgurl] . . . The owner may just be a long-term visitor of a friend or relative here or a new arrival and cannot get it licensed here without a lot of headache installing a catalytic converter.[/quote]

It is the seller’s responsibility to smog the car, legally.[/quote]

Agreed, but I can see some sellers asking the buyer to do it and an ignorant buyer agreeing because of the low sales price and then finding out after the fact that it won’t smog w/o expensive retrofitting.

[quote=Wickedheart]I still say it’s fishy. This guy’s been posting newer cars for the last couple of weeks and he always posts them in the arts and crafts section. My BS meter has about a 98% accuracy so far.[/quote]

Wickedheart, if a single “private party” has been posting several late-model vehicles (in the wrong category, no less), your BS meter is probably accurate on this one. The pic on the link you posted DOES NOT look like the it was taken at a dealer but on private property.

I noticed back in April that a single private party “Alex” had no less that 79 litters of so-called “purebred” puppies for sale in different categories of dogs advertised on craigslist san diego. He’s probably still running these ads and is the US “representative” for Mexican puppy mills that are so rampant in the “pet marketplace” around here. It is so sad because these dogs have so many medical problems due to repeated inbreeding that the vet bills in the first year alone could break the average family who adopts one. They are typically sold out of cardboard boxes in parking lots for $275 to $450 (no papers, of course) when a reputable breeder would charge $850 and up. This makes me sick.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Wickedheart][quote=bearishgurl] . . . If interested, check CARFAX on it. [/quote]

There was also a Toyota listed and several other cars from the same seller. The ad was no longer up. The ads are just not right. A flooded car would not be desirable. Carfax only shows reported accidents.[/quote]

I agree that a flooded car would not be desirable. CARFAX SHOULD pick up the condition of the title, however.

[quote Wickedheart][quote=bearishgurl]A “salvaged” or “wreck” title does not necessarily mean the veh. will be a bad purchase. It depends on where it was hit. Ins. companies routinely salvage vehicles for ridiculous reasons.[/quote]

Agreed. I wouldn’t call it ridiculous though. If the amount to repair exceeds the value of the vehicle, it will be totaled and salvaged.[/quote]

Actually, it depends on the ins. co. I have seen friends vehicles “totaled” when the value of the damage is only about 30% of the blue book value.

[quote=Wickedheart][quote=bearishgurl] . . . The owner may just be a long-term visitor of a friend or relative here or a new arrival and cannot get it licensed here without a lot of headache installing a catalytic converter.[/quote]

It is the seller’s responsibility to smog the car, legally.[/quote]

Agreed, but I can see some sellers asking the buyer to do it and an ignorant buyer agreeing because of the low sales price and then finding out after the fact that it won’t smog w/o expensive retrofitting.

[quote=Wickedheart]I still say it’s fishy. This guy’s been posting newer cars for the last couple of weeks and he always posts them in the arts and crafts section. My BS meter has about a 98% accuracy so far.[/quote]

Wickedheart, if a single “private party” has been posting several late-model vehicles (in the wrong category, no less), your BS meter is probably accurate on this one. The pic on the link you posted DOES NOT look like the it was taken at a dealer but on private property.

I noticed back in April that a single private party “Alex” had no less that 79 litters of so-called “purebred” puppies for sale in different categories of dogs advertised on craigslist san diego. He’s probably still running these ads and is the US “representative” for Mexican puppy mills that are so rampant in the “pet marketplace” around here. It is so sad because these dogs have so many medical problems due to repeated inbreeding that the vet bills in the first year alone could break the average family who adopts one. They are typically sold out of cardboard boxes in parking lots for $275 to $450 (no papers, of course) when a reputable breeder would charge $850 and up. This makes me sick.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Wickedheart][quote=bearishgurl] . . . If interested, check CARFAX on it. [/quote]

There was also a Toyota listed and several other cars from the same seller. The ad was no longer up. The ads are just not right. A flooded car would not be desirable. Carfax only shows reported accidents.[/quote]

I agree that a flooded car would not be desirable. CARFAX SHOULD pick up the condition of the title, however.

[quote Wickedheart][quote=bearishgurl]A “salvaged” or “wreck” title does not necessarily mean the veh. will be a bad purchase. It depends on where it was hit. Ins. companies routinely salvage vehicles for ridiculous reasons.[/quote]

Agreed. I wouldn’t call it ridiculous though. If the amount to repair exceeds the value of the vehicle, it will be totaled and salvaged.[/quote]

Actually, it depends on the ins. co. I have seen friends vehicles “totaled” when the value of the damage is only about 30% of the blue book value.

[quote=Wickedheart][quote=bearishgurl] . . . The owner may just be a long-term visitor of a friend or relative here or a new arrival and cannot get it licensed here without a lot of headache installing a catalytic converter.[/quote]

It is the seller’s responsibility to smog the car, legally.[/quote]

Agreed, but I can see some sellers asking the buyer to do it and an ignorant buyer agreeing because of the low sales price and then finding out after the fact that it won’t smog w/o expensive retrofitting.

[quote=Wickedheart]I still say it’s fishy. This guy’s been posting newer cars for the last couple of weeks and he always posts them in the arts and crafts section. My BS meter has about a 98% accuracy so far.[/quote]

Wickedheart, if a single “private party” has been posting several late-model vehicles (in the wrong category, no less), your BS meter is probably accurate on this one. The pic on the link you posted DOES NOT look like the it was taken at a dealer but on private property.

I noticed back in April that a single private party “Alex” had no less that 79 litters of so-called “purebred” puppies for sale in different categories of dogs advertised on craigslist san diego. He’s probably still running these ads and is the US “representative” for Mexican puppy mills that are so rampant in the “pet marketplace” around here. It is so sad because these dogs have so many medical problems due to repeated inbreeding that the vet bills in the first year alone could break the average family who adopts one. They are typically sold out of cardboard boxes in parking lots for $275 to $450 (no papers, of course) when a reputable breeder would charge $850 and up. This makes me sick.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Wickedheart][quote=bearishgurl] . . . If interested, check CARFAX on it. [/quote]

There was also a Toyota listed and several other cars from the same seller. The ad was no longer up. The ads are just not right. A flooded car would not be desirable. Carfax only shows reported accidents.[/quote]

I agree that a flooded car would not be desirable. CARFAX SHOULD pick up the condition of the title, however.

[quote Wickedheart][quote=bearishgurl]A “salvaged” or “wreck” title does not necessarily mean the veh. will be a bad purchase. It depends on where it was hit. Ins. companies routinely salvage vehicles for ridiculous reasons.[/quote]

Agreed. I wouldn’t call it ridiculous though. If the amount to repair exceeds the value of the vehicle, it will be totaled and salvaged.[/quote]

Actually, it depends on the ins. co. I have seen friends vehicles “totaled” when the value of the damage is only about 30% of the blue book value.

[quote=Wickedheart][quote=bearishgurl] . . . The owner may just be a long-term visitor of a friend or relative here or a new arrival and cannot get it licensed here without a lot of headache installing a catalytic converter.[/quote]

It is the seller’s responsibility to smog the car, legally.[/quote]

Agreed, but I can see some sellers asking the buyer to do it and an ignorant buyer agreeing because of the low sales price and then finding out after the fact that it won’t smog w/o expensive retrofitting.

[quote=Wickedheart]I still say it’s fishy. This guy’s been posting newer cars for the last couple of weeks and he always posts them in the arts and crafts section. My BS meter has about a 98% accuracy so far.[/quote]

Wickedheart, if a single “private party” has been posting several late-model vehicles (in the wrong category, no less), your BS meter is probably accurate on this one. The pic on the link you posted DOES NOT look like the it was taken at a dealer but on private property.

I noticed back in April that a single private party “Alex” had no less that 79 litters of so-called “purebred” puppies for sale in different categories of dogs advertised on craigslist san diego. He’s probably still running these ads and is the US “representative” for Mexican puppy mills that are so rampant in the “pet marketplace” around here. It is so sad because these dogs have so many medical problems due to repeated inbreeding that the vet bills in the first year alone could break the average family who adopts one. They are typically sold out of cardboard boxes in parking lots for $275 to $450 (no papers, of course) when a reputable breeder would charge $850 and up. This makes me sick.

[Coronita]

Be careful meeting strangers at seedy places (like home). Or bring a pal or two.. You never know…

[Coronita]

Be careful meeting strangers at seedy places (like home). Or bring a pal or two.. You never know…

[Coronita]

Be careful meeting strangers at seedy places (like home). Or bring a pal or two.. You never know…

[Coronita]

Be careful meeting strangers at seedy places (like home). Or bring a pal or two.. You never know…

[Coronita]

Be careful meeting strangers at seedy places (like home). Or bring a pal or two.. You never know…

[bearishgurl]

[quote=flu]Be careful meeting strangers at seedy places (like home). Or bring a pal or two.. You never know…[/quote]

I was never alone when ad responders came into my home to view mdse I had for sale. And it was always a mom or dad planning a ski trip with an elem. age kid in tow to try on ski clothing or boots.

The rest of the items I have sold through craigslist were out of my garage. The ad responder never came into my home. I have also had two garage sales (w/help as they are very labor-intensive to get ready for and attend to). Made over $1,000 each time. As you Piggs are aware, Chula Vista has a very captive audience for this sort of thing :=)

[bearishgurl]

[quote=flu]Be careful meeting strangers at seedy places (like home). Or bring a pal or two.. You never know…[/quote]

I was never alone when ad responders came into my home to view mdse I had for sale. And it was always a mom or dad planning a ski trip with an elem. age kid in tow to try on ski clothing or boots.

The rest of the items I have sold through craigslist were out of my garage. The ad responder never came into my home. I have also had two garage sales (w/help as they are very labor-intensive to get ready for and attend to). Made over $1,000 each time. As you Piggs are aware, Chula Vista has a very captive audience for this sort of thing :=)

[bearishgurl]

[quote=flu]Be careful meeting strangers at seedy places (like home). Or bring a pal or two.. You never know…[/quote]

I was never alone when ad responders came into my home to view mdse I had for sale. And it was always a mom or dad planning a ski trip with an elem. age kid in tow to try on ski clothing or boots.

The rest of the items I have sold through craigslist were out of my garage. The ad responder never came into my home. I have also had two garage sales (w/help as they are very labor-intensive to get ready for and attend to). Made over $1,000 each time. As you Piggs are aware, Chula Vista has a very captive audience for this sort of thing :=)

[bearishgurl]

[quote=flu]Be careful meeting strangers at seedy places (like home). Or bring a pal or two.. You never know…[/quote]

I was never alone when ad responders came into my home to view mdse I had for sale. And it was always a mom or dad planning a ski trip with an elem. age kid in tow to try on ski clothing or boots.

The rest of the items I have sold through craigslist were out of my garage. The ad responder never came into my home. I have also had two garage sales (w/help as they are very labor-intensive to get ready for and attend to). Made over $1,000 each time. As you Piggs are aware, Chula Vista has a very captive audience for this sort of thing :=)

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