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lebriznon

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« on: August 09, 2005, 10:22:00 PM »
Im looking at replacing our '87 accord.  It has 178,000 km on it, and there is minor scraping/denting to both doors on the drivers side (some jackass slid into on the snow back in January).  Otherwise, it runs fine.  Been well maintained.

What would something like this sell for you think?  I went down to the Toyota dealer few weeks ago and they said they'd take it for a trade-in value of $250CAD.  Im still thinking WTF.  He said i'd be better off selling it myself.

I saw an '86 civic with 198,000km asking $2000 in the classifieds...
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thesideinguy

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« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2005, 06:17:00 AM »
on mater what the trade in value or the sales man says, tell him you wont take no less than 1,000 for it as a trade in or you will take your busness elswere.
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Psykomantis00

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« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2005, 01:44:00 PM »
No the dealers dont sell cars they take in on trades unless they are pretty new. Most of the time they sell them off in auctions. Accords dont esell good. A 97 auto accord with 133k miles on it just sold for 7k, I was going to buy it but didnt because I got paid 1g for selling it for him for much higher thatn what he wanted, and it had a ton of stuff in it, 10k worth of tv's, audio stuff, rims, body kit, fresh paint, all of that stuff. He was going to sell it to me for 2k.

Now an 89 civic hatch can sale for alot more than an accord, becuase nobody wants accords. Every honda owner more thanlikeyl wants a hatch. I say you could sell your care for around 1 thousand easily. Maybe more, so dont take his 250 for it. And Im tlaking american currency not cad.
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lebriznon

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« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2005, 10:05:00 PM »
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i did a search for osmething simliar to kbb in canada...theres the canadian black book website.  it determines the value of any used car in canada from 1996 and newer.  bullshit  mad.gif

so yeah, i dunno.  Dont really want to put an ad in the paper.  it'll cost me like $300 for a few days and a tiny 4 line ad in the classfieds.

just saw an ad for the exact same car in the paper, only it has 290,000km on it.  asking $1600.  I guess $2000 is a reasonable asking price.  Only thing thats wrong with it are the dented doors and a replaced am/fm casette deck (old one was stolen).
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killerbootsman

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« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2005, 10:15:00 PM »
A cheap alternative would be to print out flyers and post them around your town. (Posting them around high schools might be good, because it sounds like it could be a good 1st car for some teen)
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