why people would rather see their old cars rot than sell em

[MRM]

If I had a teacher like that, I probably wouldn't be so poor today?

Did your buddy learn anything?

BTW..what kind of old bottle sells for 200$?

 

[toobaroque]

Wouldn't the fact that he was being offered $40K for a rusted out piece of scrap metal throw a flag or two? It should have. He was blinded by the money and he left his common sense in the house!

We all know what the kitty cried, don't we?

 

[OdinIII]

What if he had thought the car was some ultra rare combination but was wrong and couldn't get his money back. Would the seller be "taking advantage" of his mistake to have took the 40M?

 

[Targetmaster]

Holy Moly, my Mother drove a STUTZ BEARCAT during the 1920's

 

[roundhouse]

Lol x2. No one forced him to sell it for 40k...did they?

If he had any clue the flipper was going to get half a mil you think he would have sold it for $39K ?


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[Fatal_Bert]

How dare that Bastard understand the market on something and turn around and use that knowledge for profit! What a dirty Bastard, someone call the department of justice!

 

[Cadcom]

I don't think the op was railing against capitalism. There is a big difference between making a profit and taking advantage of people.

I agree. But I've yet to see any examples of anyone being taken advantage of in this thread. Tell someone you are going to build a deck out of 2x6 pressure treated wood and then you use 2x4 yellow pine is screwing someone over. Buying a car (or anything else) for an agreed upon price and then reselling it for a profit is not in any fashion, taking "advantage" of someone. This kind of thinking is right out of the pit of Bernie sanders and socialism 101. It's frigging ridiculous.

 

[Laufen]

So spite will keep you from making money....sweet.

 

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[Dawgbrain]

That should never be able to happen. In a perfect world the local authorities wouldn't allow someone to keep an old junky car in their yard to start with.