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    Stupidity at its finest

    I have my 86 bronco up for sale and have it priced at 800 obo locally on facebook and some kid offered 400! I told him i would pull the engine and scrap the rest before i let that happen. Then he said i would only get 100 for it and had to keep pushing that he was right. I can get 180 a ton for the truck so i told him to quit being a bottom feeding parasite and it seems he has done this to alot of people. Now i dont like fighting but i got no problem disciplining a little brat like him.

    Anyone else ever deal with total idiots like this?



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    Well, I bought my first little two wheel drive truck for two hundered and fifty box running.........it was so rusty that you could reach your hand through the door and unlock it.......when I sold it I put three fifty on the sign and it sold in an hour......I wouldn't exactly call that person smart

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    And then you get the other geniuses that will hold out on something saying "I can get XXX for scrap" when you know exactly what it would bring.

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    Every time I sell an Auto on CL.

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    My response would be to the effect: I'm sorry I can't go that low the least I will accept is $###.00 and not get involved in the I could for it at the scrap yard. I find that keeping them concentrating on your price is best.

    The tax refunds are coming soon so you may want to get looking and smelling its best, raise the price and make more money. Mike.
    "Profit begins when you buy NOT when you sell." {quote passed down to me from a wise man}

    Now go beat the copper out of something, Miked

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    i mostly offered it up to help with christmas for the kids but took care of that doing other things (completely legal) and promised my wife i woudl atleast try to sell it since i got the suburban for hauling my trailer around if it dont sell soon im gonna either pull some of the parts off of it and crust it or just put it in the backyard till spring and start making it a mud runner

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    I vote mud runner vs parts/crushed.

    But hey..I think driving a vehicle through mud is totally more fun then crushing one. You can only crunch once, but you can mud run/bog/whatever forever!

    Sirscrapalot - Git muddy.

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    sometimes i just make really annoying text inquiries/conversations to people selling stuff on craigslist. i usually start off with horrible grammar asking everything thats already been stated on the ad. sorry
    collecting san joses scrap

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    Quote Originally Posted by bluemeate View Post
    sometimes i just make really annoying text inquiries/conversations to people selling stuff on craigslist. i usually start off with horrible grammar asking everything thats already been stated on the ad. sorry
    So YOU'RE the one! ;-)
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