Not quite ready to sell it.....GOT ANY EXAMPLES?

[Wade Nelson]

I'm always amused by the ads on Craigslist (and here) by people NOT QUITE READY to sell a vehicle.

I stop to look at an old Chevy pickup alongside the road. It won't even crank even with a jump start. (The battery is so internally shorted out it can't even accept a jump start) Really? You guys think someone will happen by and buy it who can't even start it or drive it around the block? I convince them to put a battery in, and sure enough, it won't go into reverse. In go two quarts of ATF (at which point I see the puddle where it WAS parked...) I take it for a spin around the block just to honor their efforts, then tell them I think I "really want something with AC in it"

I call one lady selling a Chevrolet truck. She asks me if I could bring along jumper cables, because ..... really? You want $2500 for your truck but won't go buy a $80 battery in it in order to sell it?

Here's one in the Thrifty Nickle:

FINISH MOWER 6' KING KUTTER 3-BLADE NEED A BELT $500.00 CALL 205...

Yeah, like I'm going to buy your mower, go purchase a belt, install it, and THEN discover out the gearbox is all chewed up?

Another ad for a Toro ride-on mower had verbage like "Doesn't run, needs a part installed, I have the part...." well doofus, if that's all it needs, why don't you install it?

I get to the bottom of a Craiglist ad for ANOTHER truck and he confesses.... HE DOESNT HAVE A TITLE, BUT ASSURES ME SINCE IT's PRE-1973 I DONT NEED ONE....

Yeah, I wonder how THAT would fly down at the DMV...."But the seller TOLD me I don't need one!!"

And today, here on the Zcar forum: "Interior is out(I have EVERYTHING, just needs to be put back in.

Really? for $4500 you won't even lay the carpet in and bolt the seats down?

How many buyers do these folks REALLY think they're gonna attract for a vehicle that won't crank, won't start, or needs a part, or lacks a driver's seat?

So, post any ad here YOU'VE SEEN of a "NOT REALLY READY TO SELL IT ITEM"