So I just have to put this out there to see if you guys think it's just as messed up as I do. I've been working on a deal to buy the 55st series that this post is about. The seller was asking 6k on craigslist. I went and met with the owners father on New Years Day to look at it, and the next day I let him know that I was very interested in it, and was just working on getting the 6k together. I checked the craigslist add this past Sunday night (right after finally getting the go-ahead on the deal from the wife) to find the add had been deleted. So I went back over to the shop where the suburban was located to see it still there, and asked the owners dad why the add had been taken down. He said that his son had someone come in and look at it over the weekend and as stated above nit-picked the crud out of it trying to low ball the price (the 6k price). I let him know that I wasn't there to nit-pick him on it, and I had the asking price, cash in hand. He emailed me back after talking it over with his son saying that the 6k asking price was just to low with what they had in it, and they couldn't let it go for less than $7500. Sounds like they're trying to turn my excitment for my first classic vehicle into more money for them. I have never had someone try to negotiate a "higher" price than the intitial asking price. If they couldn't sell it at 6k with low ballers and nit-pickers coming in to look at it, what in the heck makes them think they can run the price up on someone who's willing to give what they asked for in the first place. Going to stand my ground at 6k and wait for them to call me begging for it.
Sorry for the rant, but I just wanted to see if you guys think that the situation is a screwed up as it sounds.
